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Remembrance and Pantomime

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466880422
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Remembrance and Pantomime written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First produced by Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in 1979, Remembrance is the story of an evasively eloquent retired teacher who cannot reconcile his anachronistic love of British culture with the evolution of his family and community in independent Trinidad. "A lyrical, audience-pleasing work" (Variety). Mr. Walcott is a poet, and his writing is of a quality we seldom hear in the theatre" (The New Yorker). Pantomime is a fast-paced comedy set in Tobaco. In the hope of entertaining future guests, an English hotel owner proposes that he and his black handyman work up a satire on the Robinson Crusoe story. The play was produced by BBC Radio and London's Keskidee Theatre in 1979. "A brilliantly extended set of variations on the master-and-servant relationship" (The Times). "Gentle wit, immaculately placed irony" (New Statesman). "Dazzling theatrical virtuosity" (Financial Times).

Derek Walcott

Author : John Thieme
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719042065
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Derek Walcott written by John Thieme and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Thieme here provides a comprehensive study of Derek Walcott's writing from its beginnings in the 1940s to his most recent work. Walcott's poetry and drama are set against the background of various contexts and intertexts--Caribbean, European and other--that have shaped him as a writer. The book contains a broad overview of Walcott's career for students and readers coming to the work of the 1992 Nobel Laureate for the first time.

What Is a Classic?

Author : Ankhi Mukherjee
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804788383
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book What Is a Classic? written by Ankhi Mukherjee and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Is a Classic? revisits the famous question posed by critics from Sainte-Beuve and T. S. Eliot to J. M. Coetzee to ask how classics emanate from postcolonial histories and societies. Exploring definitive trends in twentieth- and twenty-first century English and Anglophone literature, Ankhi Mukherjee demonstrates the relevance of the question of the classic for the global politics of identifying and perpetuating so-called core texts. Emergent canons are scrutinized in the context of the wider cultural phenomena of book prizes, the translation and distribution of world literatures, and multimedia adaptations of world classics. Throughout, Mukherjee attunes traditional literary critical concerns to the value contestations mobilizing postcolonial and world literature. The breadth of debates and topics she addresses, as well as the book's ambitious historical schema, which includes South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and North America, set this study apart from related titles on the bookshelf today.

Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott

Author : Robert D. Hamner
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780894101427
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott written by Robert D. Hamner and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this collection are representative of the criticism that has followed Walcott's career from the 1940s into the 1990s. Ten entries by Walcott himself (including one not previously published and two vital interviews) are complemented by some 40 incisive essays and reviews, ranging from professional assessments to the rare, personal observations of Walcott's earliest mentors.

Remembrance & Pantomime

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN 13 : 9780374249120
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Remembrance & Pantomime written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar Straus Giroux. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hybridity

Author : Vanessa Guignery
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443833967
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Hybridity written by Vanessa Guignery and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades, the unstable notion of hybridity has been the focus of a number of debates in cultural and literary studies, and has been discussed in connection with such notions as métissage, creolization, syncretism, diaspora, transculturation and in-betweeness. The aim of this volume is to form a critical assessment of the scope, significance and role of the notion in literature and the visual arts from the eighteenth century to the present day. The contributors propose to examine the development and various manifestations of the concept as a principle held in contempt by the partisans of racial purity, a process enthusiastically promoted by adepts of mixing and syncretism, but also a notion viewed with suspicion by those who decry its multifarious and triumphalist dimensions and its lack of political roots. The notion of hybridity is analysed in relation to the concepts of identity, nationhood, language and culture, drawing from the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, Homi Bhabha, Robert Young, Paul Gilroy and Edouard Glissant, among others. Contributors examine forms of hybridity in the work of such canonical writers as Daniel Defoe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas De Quincey and Victor Hugo, as well as in contemporary American and British fiction, Neo-Victorian and postcolonial literature.

The Golden Age of Pantomime

Author : Jeffrey Richards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085773587X
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Pantomime written by Jeffrey Richards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the theatrical genres most prized by the Victorians, pantomime is the only one to have survived continuously into the twenty-first century. It remains as true today as it was in the 1830s, that a visit to the pantomime constitutes the first theatrical experience of most children and now, as then, a successful pantomime season is the key to the financial health of most theatres. Everyone went to the pantomime, from Queen Victoria and the royal family to the humblest of her subjects. It appealed equally to West End and East End, to London and the provinces, to both sexes and all ages. Many Victorian luminaries were devotees of the pantomime, notably among them John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll and W.E. Gladstone. In this vivid and evocative account of the Victorian pantomime, Jeffrey Richards examines the potent combination of slapstick, spectacle and subversion that ensured the enduring popularity of the form. The secret of its success, he argues, was its continual evolution. It acted as an accurate cultural barometer of its times, directly reflecting current attitudes, beliefs and preoccupations, and it kept up a flow of instantly recognisable topical allusions to political rows, fashion fads, technological triumphs, wars and revolutions, and society scandals. Richards assesses throughout the contribution of writers, producers, designers and stars to the success of the pantomime in its golden age. This book is a treat as rich and appetizing as turkey, mince pies and plum pudding.

On Second Thought

Author : Debra Taylor Bourdeau
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874139754
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book On Second Thought written by Debra Taylor Bourdeau and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every ending marks a potential beginning; every act of reading is, in a very real sense an act of re-writing; and to revise is, literally, to re-see. These bits of conventional wisdom underlie the topic explored in this volume's collection of essays by literary critics who want to know more about the instinct to continue and the impulse to revise an existing text.

Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation

Author : Pascal Nicklas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110272237
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Adaptation and Cultural Appropriation written by Pascal Nicklas and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Hamlet” by Olivier, Kaurismäki or Shepard and “Pride and Prejudice” in its many adaptations show the virulence of these texts and the importance of aesthetic recycling for the formation of cultural identity and diversity. Adaptation has always been a standard literary and cultural strategy, and can be regarded as the dominant means of production in the cultural industries today. Focusing on a variety of aspects such as artistic strategies and genre, but also marketing and cultural politics, this volume takes a critical look at ways of adapting and appropriating cultural texts across epochs and cultures in literature, film and the arts.

(Un)writing Empire

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004433597
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book (Un)writing Empire written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to the present volume, in espousing and extending the programme of such writers as Edward Said, Benedict Anderson, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak, lay bare the genealogy of 'writing' empire (thereby, in a sense, 'un-writing' it). One focus is the Caribbean: the retrograde agenda of francophone créolité; the re-writing of empire in the postmodern disengagement of Edouard Glissant; resistance to post-colonial allegiances, and the dissolving of binary categories, in contemporary West Indian writing. Essays on India, Malaysia, and Indonesia explore various aspects of cultural self-understanding in Asia: un-writing high culture through hybrid 'shopping' among Western styles; the use of indigenous oral forms to counter Western hegemony; romantic and anti-romantic attitudes towards empire and the land. A shift to Africa brings a study of Nadine Gordimer's feminist un-writing of Hemingway's masculinist colonising narrative, a searching analysis of Soyinka's restoration of ancient syncretic elements in his West African re-visions of Greek tragedy, changing evaluations of the validity of European civilization in André Gide's representations of Africa, and tensions of linguistic allegiance in Maghreb literature. North America, finally, is brought back into the imperial fold through discussions of Melville's re-writing of travel and captivity narratives to critique the mission of American empire, Leslie Marmon Silko's re-territorialization of expropriated Native American oral traditions, and Timothy Findley's representation of Canada's troubled involvement with its three shaping empires (French, British, American).

A Spectacular Failure

Author : Virginia La Grand
Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 : 9401208638
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book A Spectacular Failure written by Virginia La Grand and published by Brill. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines Defoe’s three-volume Robinson Crusoe series in the light of the ‘banter’ style he developed as a pamphleteer. That heavily ironic style had brought him renown but also put him in the pillory. The present study explores for the first time Defoe’s complaint that readers and pirate abridgers misread his tale of the would-be trader Robinson Crusoe. Using Discourse Analysis and Relevance Theory to examine the early abridgements of Volume I and Defoe’s subsequent two volumes, this study argues that Defoe’s greatest success is also a peculiar failure.

Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English

Author : Eugene Benson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134468482
Total Pages : 1950 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English written by Eugene Benson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 1950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.

Postcolonial Plays

Author : Helen Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136218173
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Plays written by Helen Gilbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of contemporary postcolonial plays demonstrates the extraordinary vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre. This anthology encompasses both internationally admired 'classics' and previously unpublished texts, all dealing with imperialism and its aftermath. It includes work from Canada, the Carribean, South and West Africa, Southeast Asia, India, New Zealand and Australia. A general introduction outlines major themes in postcolonial plays. Introductions to individual plays include information on authors as well as overviews of cultural contexts, major ideas and performance history. Dramaturgical techniques in the plays draw on Western theatre as well as local performance traditions and include agit-prop dialogue, musical routines, storytelling, ritual incantation, epic narration, dance, multimedia presentation and puppetry. The plays dramatize diverse issues, such as: *globalization * political corruption * race and class relations *slavery *gender and sexuality *media representation *nationalism

Critical Survey of Drama: Giangiorgio Trissino - Arnold Zweig, Essays

Author : Carl Edmund Rollyson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Critical Survey of Drama: Giangiorgio Trissino - Arnold Zweig, Essays written by Carl Edmund Rollyson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines, updates, and expands two earlier Salem Press reference sets: Critical survey of drama, Rev. ed., English language series, published in 1994, and Critical survey of drama, Foreign language series, published in 1986. This new 8 vol. set contains 602 essays, of which 538 discuss individual dramatists and 64 cover broad overview topics. The dramatist profiles contain more than 310 photographs and drawings.

A History of Pantomime

Author : R. J. Broadbent
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book A History of Pantomime written by R. J. Broadbent and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-05 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A History of Pantomime" by R. J. Broadbent. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Masterplots II.

Author : Frank Northen Magill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Masterplots II. written by Frank Northen Magill and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On and Off the Page

Author : Ari J. Adipurwawidjana
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443809381
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book On and Off the Page written by Ari J. Adipurwawidjana and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, comprised of research first presented at the seventh annual Louisiana Conference on Literature, Language, and Culture, explores one of the most pervasive, vexing, and alluring concepts in the Humanities, that of place. Including essays which encompass a broad range of research fields and methodologies, from Geography to Cybernetics, it presents a cross-section of approaches aimed revealing the complex cultural machinations behind what once may have seemed a static, one-dimensional topic. Investigations into the function of place as a force in contemporary culture inevitably reveal a long history of the interplay between place and cultural product, between 'context' and 'text'. Just as traditional cultures mythologize sacred spaces, so too has Western culture sanctified its own places through its literature. Imagined places such as Faulker’s Yoknapatawpha or Joyce’s Dublin become the focus of conferences and festivals; authors’ homes, birthplaces, and gravesites are transformed into sites of pilgrimage; locales created for television shows and movies become actual businesses catering to a public for whom the line between fantasy and reality is increasingly blurred; and persisting through the great cultural shifts of the past two hundred years is the popular and romantic notion that words, performances, narratives, and even national identities are always in some way an expression of the places in which they are created and set. With the idea of place foregrounded in so much contemporary discourse, this collection promises to enter into an already lively debate and one which, due to its relevance to where we live and how we make sense of our own “places” within them, does not show any signs of flagging.