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The Spanish Civil War

Author : George R. Esenwein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134629680
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book The Spanish Civil War written by George R. Esenwein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting collection of primary sources on the Spanish Civil War uses military and political documents, media accounts, and contemporary propaganda to create a representative and illuminating survey of this enormously complicated event more than sixty-five years after it ended. Structured chronologically from a full introduction which delineates the field, this book ranges from the origins of the uprising against Franco through to its turbulent aftermath. It clearly outlines key points in the conflict and highlights the little-known roles of race and gender in determining the war’s outcome. The book also unearths many rare sources for the first time and reveals the variety of perspectives held by those immediately involved in the war. This is an ideal resource for all students of history and military history.

Modern Tragedy

Author : Raymond Williams
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Tragedy written by Raymond Williams and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence

Author : S. Simkin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230597114
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Tragedy and the Cinema of Violence written by S. Simkin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study considers parallel issues in revenge tragedies of the early seventeenth-century and violent cinema of the last thirty years. It offers a series of provocative explorations of death, revenge and justice, and gender and violence. What happens when we connect The White Devil with Basic Instinct ? The Changeling or Titus Andronicus with Straw Dogs ? Doctor Faustus with Se7en ? Taxi Driver with The Spanish Tragedy ? Appealing to those with an interest in either drama or film, written in an engaging style, the book also reconsiders the high /popular culture divide, and reflects on the enduring significance of the revenge motif in Western culture over the past four hundred years, particularly in the post 9/11 context.

Wole Soyinka and Modern Tragedy

Author : Ketu Katrak
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0313240744
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Wole Soyinka and Modern Tragedy written by Ketu Katrak and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1986-06-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragic drama of Nigeria's leading playwright, Wole Soyinka, is the focus of this in-depth study. Ketu H. Katrak explores Soyinka's concept of the tragic experience as it relates to Yoruba culture and analyzes the unique features of his theory of tragedy which blends Yoruba traditional drama with Western tragic forms. Opening with a biographical overview of Soyinka's life and career, Katrak addresses the major issues presented by Soyinka in his essay on tragedy, The Fourth Stage. These include the origin of tragic feeling, the components of the tragic experience, and the concretization of these abstract notions in the Yoruba god Ogun. The author demonstrates that it is through these themes and the elements of ritual and myth that Soyinka imparts communal values to his work, ultimately achieving a metaphysical level of expression. Katrak also discusses the element of the death of the protagonist in a number of Soyinka's plays and how it is beneficial for the community. The history of a community, a nation, and mankind, as it appears in other Soyinka plays, is also discussed. Throughout the work, the study of Soyinka's drama is balanced with an analysis of dramatic structure and stagecraft. Included are interviews and discussions with many of Nigeria's academicians, as well as with Soyinka himself.

The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy

Author : Edwin Wong
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525537563
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy written by Edwin Wong and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, BIRNAM WOOD COMES TO DUNSINANE HILL The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial intelligence, gene editing, globalization, and mutual assured destruction ideologies. Tragedy, according to risk theatre, puts us face to face with the unexpected implications of our actions by simulating the profound impact of highly improbable events. In this book, classicist Edwin Wong shows how tragedy imitates reality: heroes, by taking inordinate risks, trigger devastating low-probability, high-consequence outcomes. Such a theatre forces audiences to ask themselves a most timely question---what happens when the perfect bet goes wrong? Not only does Wong reinterpret classic tragedies from Aeschylus to O’Neill through the risk theatre lens, he also invites dramatists to create tomorrow’s theatre. As the world becomes increasingly unpredictable, the most compelling dramas will be high-stakes tragedies that dramatize the unintended consequences of today's risk takers who are taking us past the point of no return.

Modern Tragic Vision

Author : Dr. Balwinder Singh
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365050777
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Modern Tragic Vision written by Dr. Balwinder Singh and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rethinking Tragedy

Author : Rita Felski
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801887390
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Tragedy written by Rita Felski and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-02-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking collection provokes a major reassessment of the significance of tragedy and the tragic in late modernity. A distinguished group of scholars and theorists extends the discussion of tragedy beyond its usual parameters to include film, popular culture, and contemporary politics. Seven new essays—as well as eight essays originally published in a New Literary History special issue on tragedy—address important, previously neglected areas of tragedy and postcolonial criticism. The new material explores the tragic dimensions of popular culture, the relationship between tragedy and pity, and feminism's avoidance of the tragic, and includes an incisive history of tragic theory. Classic and cutting-edge, this collection offers a provocative, accessible, and comprehensive treatment of tragedy and tragic theory. Contributors: Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich; Stanley Corngold, Princeton University; Simon Critchley, University of Essex; Joshua Foa Dienstag, University of California, Los Angeles; Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University; Page duBois, University of California, San Diego; Terry Eagleton, University of Manchester; Rita Felski, University of Virginia; Simon Goldhill, Cambridge University; Heather K. Love, University of Pennsylvania; Michel Maffesoli, University of Paris (V); Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago; Timothy J. Reiss, New York University; Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston; David Scott, Columbia University; George Steiner, University of Geneva; Olga Taxidou, University of Edinburgh

Tragic Modernities

Author : Miriam Leonard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674286944
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Tragic Modernities written by Miriam Leonard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the microscope of recent scholarship the universality of Greek tragedy has started to fade, as particularities of Athenian culture have come into focus. Miriam Leonard contests the idea of the death of tragedy and argues powerfully for the continued vitality and viability of Greek tragic theater in the central debates of contemporary culture.

Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama

Author : David Palmer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474276946
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama written by David Palmer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume responds to a renewed focus on tragedy in theatre and literary studies to explore conceptions of tragedy in the dramatic work of seventeen canonical American playwrights. For students of American literature and theatre studies, the assembled essays offer a clear framework for exploring the work of many of the most studied and performed playwrights of the modern era. Following a contextual introduction that offers a survey of conceptions of tragedy, scholars examine the dramatic work of major playwrights in chronological succession, beginning with Eugene O'Neill and ending with Suzan-Lori Parks. A final chapter provides a study of American drama since 1990 and its ongoing engagement with concepts of tragedy. The chapters explore whether there is a distinctively American vision of tragedy developed in the major works of canonical American dramatists and how this may be seen to evolve over the course of the twentieth century through to the present day. Among the playwrights whose work is examined are: Susan Glaspell, Langston Hughes, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson, Marsha Norman and Tony Kushner. With each chapter being short enough to be assigned for weekly classes in survey courses, the volume will help to facilitate critical engagement with the dramatic work and offer readers the tools to further their independent study of this enduring theme of dramatic literature.

Performing Early Modern Drama Today

Author : Pascale Aebischer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521193354
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Performing Early Modern Drama Today written by Pascale Aebischer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent performances of early modern plays are analysed in essays by practitioners and academics, featuring critical, pedagogical and practical approaches.

Modern European Tragedy

Author : Annamaria Cascetta
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783081619
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Modern European Tragedy written by Annamaria Cascetta and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of the tragic has permeated Western culture for millennia, and has been expressed theatrically since the time of the ancient Greeks. However, it was in the Europe of the twentieth century – one of the most violent periods of human history – that the tragic form significantly developed. ‘Modern European Tragedy’ examines the consciousness of this era, drawing a picture of the development of the tragic through an in-depth analysis of some of the twentieth century’s most outstanding texts.

Modern Tragedy

Author : Raymond Williams
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448191300
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Modern Tragedy written by Raymond Williams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Modern Tragedy, Williams bridges the gap between literary and socio-economic study, tracing the notion of tragedy from its philosophical and dramatic origins with Aristotle. In addition, Williams discusses tragedy in Chaucher, Nietzche, Brecht, Sartre and other leading figures in the history of thought, as well as elements of tragic experience – both political and personal - in socialist revolutions of the 20th century.

Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered

Author : Jon Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521039512
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard's Relations to Hegel Reconsidered written by Jon Stewart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-16 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major re-evaluation of the complex relations between the philosophies of Kierkegaard and Hegel.

Classical Tragedy, Greek and Roman

Author : Robert Willoughby Corrigan
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557830463
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Classical Tragedy, Greek and Roman written by Robert Willoughby Corrigan and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1990 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). A collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays. Includes: "The Oresteia" Aeschylus; "Prometheus Bound" Aeschylus; "Oedipus the King" Sophocles; "Antigone" Sophocles; "Medea" Euripides; "The Bakkhai" Euripides; "Oedipus" Seneca; "Medea" Seneca.

Screening Early Modern Drama

Author : Pascale Aebischer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110724482X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Screening Early Modern Drama written by Pascale Aebischer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays captured the popular imagination at the turn of the last century, independent filmmakers began to adapt the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries. The roots of their films in European avant-garde cinema and the plays' politically subversive, sexually transgressive and violent subject matter challenge Shakespeare's cultural dominance and the conventions of mainstream cinema. In Screening Early Modern Drama, Pascale Aebischer shows how director Derek Jarman constructed an alternative, dissident, approach to filming literary heritage in his 'queer' Caravaggio and Edward II, providing models for subsequent filmmakers such as Mike Figgis, Peter Greenaway, Alex Cox and Sarah Harding. Aebischer explains how the advent of digital video has led to an explosion in low-budget screen versions of early modern drama. The only comprehensive analysis of early modern drama on screen to date, this groundbreaking study also includes an extensive annotated filmography listing forty-eight surviving adaptations.

Freudian Mythologies

Author : Rachel Bowlby
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191533661
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Freudian Mythologies written by Rachel Bowlby and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a hundred years ago, Freud made a new mythology by revising an old one: Oedipus, in Sophocles' tragedy the legendary perpetrator of shocking crimes, was an Everyman whose story of incest and parricide represented the fulfilment of universal and long forgotten childhood wishes. The Oedipus complex - child, mother, father - suited the nuclear families of the mid-twentieth century. But a century after the arrival of the psychoanalytic Oedipus, it might seem that modern lives are very much changed. Typical family formations and norms of sexual attachment are changing, while the conditions of sexual difference, both biologically and socially, have undergone far-reaching modifications. Today, it is possible to choose and live subjective stories that the first psychoanalytic patients could only dream of. Different troubles and enjoyments are speakable and unspeakable; different selves are rejected, discovered, or sought. Many kinds of hitherto unrepresented or unrepresentable identity have entered into the ordinary surrounding stories through which children and adults find their bearings in the world, while others have become obsolete. Biographical narratives that would previously have seemed unthinkable or incredible—'a likely story!'—have acquired the straightforward plausibility of a likely story. This book takes two Freudian routes to think about some of the present entanglements of identity. First, it follows Freud in returning to Greek tragedies - Oedipus and others - which may now appear strikingly different in the light of today's issues of family and sexuality. And second, it re-examines Freud's own theories from these newer perspectives, drawing out different strands of his stories of how children develop and how people change (or don't). Both kinds of mythology, the classical and the theoretical, may now, in their difference, illuminate some of the forming stories of our contemporary world of serial families, multiple sexualities, and new reproductive technologies.

Shakespeare

Author : Ronald L. Dotterer
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780941664929
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare written by Ronald L. Dotterer and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen critics are represented in this collection of essays designed to illustrate the vitality and range of traditional and new approaches to Shakespeare studies.