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The Theatre of the Absurd

Author : Martin Esslin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307548015
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of the Absurd written by Martin Esslin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents—Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others—shattered dramatic conventions and paid scant attention to psychological realism, while highlighting their characters’ inability to understand one another. In 1961, Martin Esslin gave a name to the phenomenon in his groundbreaking study of these playwrights who dramatized the absurdity at the core of the human condition. Over four decades after its initial publication, Esslin’s landmark book has lost none of its freshness. The questions these dramatists raise about the struggle for meaning in a purposeless world are still as incisive and necessary today as they were when Beckett’s tramps first waited beneath a dying tree on a lonely country road for a mysterious benefactor who would never show. Authoritative, engaging, and eminently readable, The Theatre of the Absurd is nothing short of a classic: vital reading for anyone with an interest in the theatre.

The Absurd

Author : Arnold P. Hinchliffe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351631160
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Absurd written by Arnold P. Hinchliffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1969, provides a helpful introduction to the study of Absurdist writing and drama in the first half of the twentieth century. After discussing a variety of definitions of the Absurd, it goes on to examine a number of key figures in the movement such as Esslin, Sartre, Camus, Ionesco and Genet. The book concludes with a discussion of the limitations of the term ‘Absurd’ and possible objections to Absurdity. This book will be of interest to those studying Absurdist literature as well as twentieth century drama, literature and philosophy.

Architecture of the Absurd

Author : John Silber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Architecture of the Absurd written by John Silber and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In his twenty-five years as President of Boston University, Dr. Silber oversaw a building program totaling more than 13 million square feet. Here he constructs an unflinching case, beautifully illustrated, against the worst trends in contemporary architecture. He challenges architects to derive creative satisfaction from meeting the practical needs of clients and the public. He urges the directors of our universities, symphony orchestras, museums, and corporations to stop financing inefficient, overpriced architecture, and calls on clients and the public to tell the emperors of our skylines that their pretensions cannot hide the naked absurdity of their designs."--BOOK JACKET.

Edward Albee : The Absurdist Perspective In His Plays

Author : B. D. Pandey
Publisher : Bhartiya Sahitya Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1613015925
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Edward Albee : The Absurdist Perspective In His Plays by : B. D. Pandey

Download or read book Edward Albee : The Absurdist Perspective In His Plays written by B. D. Pandey and published by Bhartiya Sahitya Inc.. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Albee (b. 1928) is recognized as one of the major American dramatists of our time. He is considered the most powerful and controversial writer of America after the eras of O’Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. Critical assessments of his work as a playwright vary from passionate applause to downright denigration. He has occasioned critical responses proving himself an enigma for critics, scholars and reviewers who have failed to reach a consensus on him as a playwright. Robert Brustein, one of America’s leading theatrical observers, displayed an arbitrary mentality of astounding presumptuousness in a review of The Zoo Story printed in Seasons of Discontent (1966) and hinted at a ‘masochistic-homosexual perfume’ in it. Similarly, in approaching The American Dream and Death of Bessie Smith, he adopted a dismissive attitude and felt only the slightest obligation to discuss the plays, preferring to attack the general decadence of American theatre. Martin Esslin precipitated a host of articles in which Albee was alternately praised and denounced for his success or failure. Philip Roth assailed him for writing ‘thinly-veiled homosexual fantasies’. Richard Schechner’s violent denunciation is based on the ‘morbidity and sexual perversity’ in Albee’s first three-act play. He dismissed the playwright as a ‘plague in our midst’ and a ‘corrosive influence on our theatre’. Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? invited the adverse remark as “a filthy play.” There are other critics as Gerald Weals, Brian Way, Rose A. Zimbardo, Gilbert Debusscher, Alan Schneider, Harold Clurman, Diana Trilling, Michael E. Rutenberg, Anne Paolucci, C.W.E. Bigsby, Richard E. Amacher etc., who have approached the plays of Edward Albee and expressed their views in favour of or against , them. To record all that has been said on Albee and his plays, or to give a survey of the critical material on Albee, the dramatist, is not possible in the limited space at my disposal here. Further, the present study is not intended to establish the reputation of Albee. Its direct and main drive is to analyze and expose the Absurdist themes which form the fundamentals of his significant plays.

The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre and Literature of the Absurd

Author : Michael Y. Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316395359
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre and Literature of the Absurd written by Michael Y. Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Y. Bennett's accessible Introduction explains the complex, multidimensional nature of the works and writers associated with the absurd - a label placed upon a number of writers who revolted against traditional theatre and literature in both similar and widely different ways. Setting the movement in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, Bennett provides an in-depth overview of absurdism and its key figures in theatre and literature, from Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to Tom Stoppard. Chapters reveal the movement's origins, development and present-day influence upon popular culture around the world, employing the latest research to this often challenging area of study in a balanced and authoritative approach. Essential reading for students of literature and theatre, this book provides the necessary tools to interpret and develop the study of a movement associated with some of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential cultural figures.

Girl Factory

Author : Jim Krusoe
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 0979419824
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Girl Factory written by Jim Krusoe and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2008-04-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a disturbing secret in the basement of a strip mall yogurt parlor. Jonathan, the mostly clueless clerk who works there, just wants to fix things once and for all, but beginning with an encounter at an animal shelter that leaves three dead, things don’t work out quite the way Jonathan intends . . . or do they? Beneath its picaresque surface,Girl Factoryraises unsettling questions about storytelling, the nature of freedom, and the ubiquitous objectification of women.

Management of the Absurd

Author : Richard Farson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684830442
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Management of the Absurd written by Richard Farson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-03-13 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "Business Week" bestseller, this original, contrarian philosophy challenges today's leaders to look past the quick fix and deal thoughtfully with the real complexities of managing people.

Contemporary American Novelists of the Absurd

Author : Charles H. Harris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780808400431
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary American Novelists of the Absurd by : Charles H. Harris

Download or read book Contemporary American Novelists of the Absurd written by Charles H. Harris and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1972-07 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd

Author : Carl Lavery
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147250576X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd written by Carl Lavery and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd is an innovative collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of theatre, performance and eco-criticism, which reconfigures absurdist theatre through the optics of ecology and environment. As well as offering strikingly new interpretations of the work of canonical playwrights such as Beckett, Genet, Ionesco, Adamov, Albee, Kafka, Pinter, Shepard and Churchill, the book playfully mimics the structure of Martin Esslin's classic text The Theatre of the Absurd, which is commonly recognised as one of the most important scholarly publications of the 20th century. By reading absurdist drama, for the first time, as an emergent form of ecological theatre, Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd interrogates afresh the very meaning of absurdism for 21st-century audiences, while at the same time making a significant contribution to the development of theatre and performance studies as a whole. The collection's interdisciplinary approach, accessibility, and ecological focus will appeal to students and academics in a number of different fields, including theatre, performance, English, French, geography and philosophy. It will also have a major impact on the new cross disciplinary paradigm of eco-criticism.

The absurd in literature

Author : Neil Cornwell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847796575
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book The absurd in literature written by Neil Cornwell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Cornwell's study, while endeavouring to present an historical survey of absurdist literature and its forbears, does not aspire to being an exhaustive history of absurdism. Rather, it pauses on certain historical moments, artistic movements, literary figures and selected works, before moving on to discuss four key writers: Daniil Kharms, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien. The absurd in literature will be of compelling interest to a considerable range of students of comparative, European (including Russian and Central European) and English literatures (British Isles and American) – as well as those more concerned with theatre studies, the avant-garde and the history of ideas (including humour theory). It should also have a wide appeal to the enthusiastic general reader.

Albert Camus and the Political Philosophy of the Absurd

Author : Matthew H. Bowker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780739181362
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (813 download)

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Book Synopsis Albert Camus and the Political Philosophy of the Absurd by : Matthew H. Bowker

Download or read book Albert Camus and the Political Philosophy of the Absurd written by Matthew H. Bowker and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Albert Camus and the Political Philosophy of the Absurd: Ambivalence, Resistance, and Creativity, Matthew H. Bowker takes an interdisciplinary approach to Albert Camus' political philosophy by reading absurdity itself as a metaphor for the psychosocial dynamics of ambivalence, resistance, integration, and creativity. Decoupling absurdity from its ontological aspirations and focusing instead on its psychological and phenomenal contours, Bowker discovers an absurdist foundation for ethical and political practice.

Stories 1, 2, 3, 4

Author : Eugène Ionesco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936365517
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Stories 1, 2, 3, 4 written by Eugène Ionesco and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father improvises a story for his daughter about names, which she appears to take seriously, teaches her some idiosyncratic meanings for words, takes her on a fantastic airplane ride without ever leaving bed, and has her look where he is not.

The Western Lonesome Society

Author : Robert Garner McBrearty
Publisher : Bower House
ISBN 13 : 9781942280125
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Western Lonesome Society written by Robert Garner McBrearty and published by Bower House. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hilarious, poignant, over-the-top Western, readers are introduced to Jim O'Brien who is writing a quixotic saga of his ancestors who grew up with a tribe of Comanche. As his grip on reality loosens, O'Brien weaves into his tale an RV trip through the soul of the west and includes a whole host of characters such as modern day stalkers, drug dealers, secret agents, strippers, a mad linguist, an imaginary� ther�apist, and Ernest Hemingway. Having been displaced, each of the char�acters must embark on the great American quest for a place to truly call home.

Albert Camus

Author : John Foley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781844651412
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Albert Camus written by John Foley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, encompassing philosophy, literature, politics and history, John Foley examines the full breadth of Camus' ideas to provide a comprehensive and rigorous study of his political and philosophical thought and a significant contribution to a range of debates current in Camus research. Foley argues that the coherence of Camus' thought can best be understood through a thorough understanding of the concepts of 'the absurd' and 'revolt' as well as the relation between them. This book includes a detailed discussion of Camus' writings for the newspaper "Combat", a systematic analysis of Camus' discussion of the moral legitimacy of political violence and terrorism, a reassessment of the prevailing postcolonial critique of Camus' humanism, and a sustained analysis of Camus' most important and frequently neglected work, "L'Homme revolte" (The Rebel).

Reading the Absurd

Author : Joanna Gavins
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748669272
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Absurd written by Joanna Gavins and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the literary absurd? What are its key textual features? How can it be analysed? How do different readers respond to absurdist literature?Taking the theories and methodologies of stylistics as its underlying analytical framework, Reading the Absurd tackles each of these questions. Selected key works in English literature are examined in depth to reveal significant aspects of absurd style. Its analytical approach combines stylistic inquiry with a cognitive perspective on language, literature and reading which sheds new light on the human experience of literary reading.By exploring the literary absurd as a linguistic and experiential phenomena, while at the same time reflecting upon its essential historical and cultural situation, Joanna Gavins brings a new perspective to the absurd aesthetic.

Re-Thinking Character in the Theatre of the Absurd

Author : Carmen Dominte
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527559882
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Re-Thinking Character in the Theatre of the Absurd written by Carmen Dominte and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the character as a central element, this volume provides insights into the Theatre of the Absurd, highlighting its specific key characteristics. Adopting both semiotic-structuralist and mathematical approaches, its analysis of the absurdist character introduces new models of investigation, including a possible algebraic model operating on the scenic, dramatic and paradigmatic level of a play, not only exploring the relations, configurations, confrontations, functions and situations but also providing necessary information for a possible geometric model. The book also takes into consideration the relations established among the most important units of a dramatic work, character, cue, décor and régie, re-configuring the basic pattern. It will be useful for any reader interested in analyzing, staging or writing a play starting from a single character.

The Element of the ‘Absurd’ in Rajiv Joseph’s Post-9/11 Plays

Author : Qurratulaen Liaqat
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527518957
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The Element of the ‘Absurd’ in Rajiv Joseph’s Post-9/11 Plays written by Qurratulaen Liaqat and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a suitable genre to describe the post-9/11 era mired in wars, violence, and unspeakable horror? What kind of literary expressions and techniques are appropriate to give voice to the prevalence of global anguish in the post-9/11 scenario? Is the Theatre of the Absurd a viable option for the expression of the incongruity of the unspeakable horror unleashed after 9/11? Is the term ‘absurd’ applicable to this era? If yes, in what terms is this applicable? This book tries to find answers to these questions and many more. It reflects on the epistemological shifts in the avant-garde tradition of the Theatre of the Absurd, its ongoing critical currency in contemporary history, and its changing contours in the post-9/11 plays of Rajiv Joseph, an emerging American dramatist. It establishes the continued relevance of the Theatre of the Absurd at the current juncture of human history.