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Download or read book In the Lurch written by Ryan Claycomb and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-01-18 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of theater’s most powerful works in the past thirty years fall into the category of "verbatim theater," socially engaged performances whose texts rely on word-for-word testimony. Performances such as Fires in the Mirror, The Laramie Project, and The Vagina Monologues have at their best demonstrated how to hold hard conversations about explosive subjects in a liberal democracy. But in this moment of what author Ryan Claycomb terms the “rightward lurch” of western democracies, does this idealized space of democratic deliberation remain effective? In the Lurch asks that question in a pointed and self-reflexive way, tracing the history of this branch of documentary theater with particular attention to the political outcomes and stances these performances seem to seek. But this is not just a disinterested history—Claycomb reflects on his own participation in that political fantasy, including earlier scholarly writing that articulated with breathless hopefulness the potential of verbatim theater, and on his own theatrical attendance, imbued with a belief that witnessing this idealized public sphere was a substitute for actual public participation. In the Lurch also recounts the bumpy path towards its completion, two years marked by presidential impeachments, an insurrection, a national reckoning with racism, and a global pandemic. At the heart of the book is a central question: is verbatim theater any longer an effective cultural response to what can look like the possible end of democracy?
Download or read book In the Lurch written by Sahil and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom was raised with a strong moral foundation set in place by his parents. He is like any other pious, God-fearing son. But as his world crashes around him, he chooses to veer from the way he was raised and let his instincts take control. He lets power go to his head, and feeling invincible, he acts out in hatred and revenge, trying to prove something to himself. Feeling deeply insecure and hurt, he feels he has no choice but to hurt back. In the Lurch tells how Tom's life changes as he matures. After losing himself, he finds his way back through all the chaos. The burdens on his shoulder make him learn about sacrifice and the purpose of living. But is he a god or a devil in the making? This incisive novel shows the ripple effects of decisions and their consequences. The author advises not to think of it as a story where you are being preached to; rather, think of the protagonist and his wrong decisions in life as a means to learn from his mistakes so that you don't make your own. And always know that you can learn from others' mistakes. Sahil is a professional writer in India. He has travelled a great deal throughout his country, and has observed how God and the devil are interpreted in different religions. He was inspired to write this book by "the wars, the rapes, molestation, death, and insecurity around the world. How fragile we humans are and how careless we are about our own fragile nature."
Download or read book Lurch written by Don McKay and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[McKay's] exuberantly musical and shrewd poems are ecological in the fullest sense of the word: they seek to elucidate our relationships with our fragile dwelling places both on the earth and in our own skins." --New York Times Book Review E.J. Pratt Family Poetry Award, Winner An extraordinary collection of poems from Griffin Poetry Prize winner Don McKay. Old joke: “What’s the difference between a lurch and a dance step?” “I don’t know.” “I didn’t think so. Let’s sit down.” These poems are what happens when you stay out on the dance floor instead, dancing the staggers. The full moon rises from the ocean and you lurch with astonishment that we live on a rocky sphere whirling in space. Or the bird in your hand—a pipit or a storm petrel—conveys the exquisite frailty of existence. And there’s the complex of lurches as we contemplate our complicity in the sixth mass extinction. Throughout Lurch, language dances its ardent incompetence as a translator of “the profane wonders of the wilderness,” whether manifest as Balsam Fir, Catbirds, the extinct Eskimo Curlew, or the ever-present Cosmic Microwave Background. What is the difference between a love song and an elegy? We live between eroding raindrops and accelerating clocks. The piano lifts its lid to show its wire-and-hammer heart.
Download or read book The End of Refuge written by Beth Martin and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only thing worse than living in a bomb shelter is dying there.Isolated from the rest of the world, the inhabitants of the shelter called Refuge have been trapped underground for over 20 years.At 19, Juliet has always called Refuge home. Despite her atypical surroundings, she strives to live a normal life. She just finished school, started a new job, and fell into her first romance. But when she receives a message from outside the shelter, her life begins to crumble. The safe haven she believed in is a lie and her future is doomed. The end is coming and she can't stop it.
Download or read book Left in the Lurch written by Nat Gould and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Devil's Marriage by : Gary Brumback
Download or read book The Devil's Marriage written by Gary Brumback and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is becoming a "ruiNation." The reason, well-known psychologist Dr. Gary Brumback, tells us is the corpocracy, the "Devil's Marriage" between powerful corporations and patronizing politicians. He proposes "Democracy Power," a revolutionary but civil, peaceful force to break up the corpocracy.--publisher description.
Download or read book Lives in Play written by Ryan Claycomb and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lives in Play explores the centrality of life narratives to women’s drama and performance from the 1970s to the present moment. In the early days of second-wave feminism, the slogan was “The personal is the political.” These autobiographical and biographical “true stories” have the political impact of the real and have also helped a range of feminists tease out the more complicated aspects of gender, sex, and sexuality in a Western culture that now imagines itself as “postfeminist.” The book’s scope is broad, from performance artists like Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, and Bobby Baker to playwrights like Suzan-Lori Parks, Maria Irene Fornes, and Sarah Kane. The book links the narrative tactics and theatrical approaches of biography and autobiography and shows how theater artists use life writing strategies to advance women’s rights and remake women’s representations. Lives in Play will appeal to scholars in performance studies, women’s studies, and literature, including those in the growing field of auto/biography studies. “ A fresh perspective and wide-ranging analysis of changes in feminist theater for the past thirty years . . . a most welcome addition to the literature on theater, in particular scholarship on feminist practices.” —Choice “Helps sustain an important history by reviving works of feminist theater and performance and giving them a new and refreshing context and theorical underpinning . . . considering 1970s performance art alongside more conventional play production.” —Lesley Ferris, The Ohio State University
Book Synopsis Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present by : William Ernest Henley
Download or read book Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present written by William Ernest Henley and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present by : John Stephen Farmer
Download or read book Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present written by John Stephen Farmer and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fight to Vote by : Michael Waldman
Download or read book The Fight to Vote written by Michael Waldman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On cover, the word "right" has an x drawn over the letter "r" with the letter "f" above it.
Book Synopsis A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles by : James Augustus Henry Murray
Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning by : Leslie Nathan Broughton
Download or read book A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning written by Leslie Nathan Broughton and published by New York ; Leipzig : G.E. Stechert. This book was released on 1924 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Folk-etymology by : Abram Smythe Palmer
Download or read book Folk-etymology written by Abram Smythe Palmer and published by London, G. Bell and sons. This book was released on 1882 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Etymologicon written by Mark Forsyth and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This perfect gift for readers, writers, and literature majors alike unearths the quirks of the English language. For example, do you know why a mortgage is literally a “death pledge”? Why guns have girls’ names? Why “salt” is related to “soldier”? Discover the answers to all of these etymological questions and more in this fascinating book for fans of of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The Etymologicon is a completely unauthorized guide to the strange underpinnings of the English language. It explains how you get from “gruntled” to “disgruntled”; why you are absolutely right to believe that your meager salary barely covers “money for salt”; how the biggest chain of coffee shops in the world connects to whaling in Nantucket; and what, precisely, the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening. This witty book will awake the linguist in you and illuminate the hidden meanings behind common words and phrases, tracing their evolution through all of their surprising paths throughout history.
Book Synopsis An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by : Walter William Skeat
Download or read book An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language written by Walter William Skeat and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Selections from the Spectator by : Joseph Addison
Download or read book Selections from the Spectator written by Joseph Addison and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
