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Author : Dani Rei
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736724620
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (246 download)
Download or read book The Fools' Circus written by Dani Rei and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Robb
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042023406
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Clowns, Fools and Picaros written by David Robb and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By its very nature the clown, as represented in art, is an interdisciplinary phenomenon. In whichever artform it appears - fiction, drama, film, photography or fine art - it carries the symbolic association of its usage in popular culture, be it ritual festivities, street theatre or circus. The clown, like its extended family of fools, jesters, picaros and tricksters, has a variety of functions all focussed around its status and image of being "other." Frequently a marginalized figure, it provides the foil for the shortcomings of dominant discourse or the absurdities of human behaviour. Clowns, Fools and Picaros represents the latest research on the clown, bringing together for the first time studies from four continents: Europe, America, Africa and Asia. It attempts to ascertain commonalities, overlaps and differences between artistic expressions of the "clownesque" from these various continents and genres, and above all, to examine the role of the clown in our cultures today. This volume is of interest for scholars of political and comic drama, film and visual art as well as scholars of comparative literature and anthropology.
Author : Vicki K. Janik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313033579
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Fools and Jesters in Literature, Art, and History written by Vicki K. Janik and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-05-21 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesters and fools have existed as important and consistent figures in nearly all cultures. Sometimes referred to as clowns, they are typological characters who have conventional roles in the arts, often using nonsense to subvert existing order. But fools are also a part of social and religious history, and they frequently play key roles in the rituals that support and shape a society's system of beliefs. This reference book includes alphabetically arranged entries for approximately 60 fools and jesters from a wide range of cultures. Included are entries for performers from American popular culture, such as Woody Allen, Mae West, Charlie Chaplin, and the Marx Brothers; literary characters, such as Shakespeare's Falstaff, Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, and Singer's Gimpel; and cultural and mythological figures, such as India's Birbal, the American circus clown, the Native American Coyote, Taishu Engeki of Japan, Hephaestus, Loki the Norse fool, schlimiels and schlimazels, and the drag queen. The entries, written by expert contributors, are critical as well as informative. Each begins with a biographical, artistic, religious, or historical background section, which places the subject within a larger cultural and historical context. A description and analysis follow. This section may include a discussion of the fool's appearance, gender role, ethical and moral roles, social function, and relationship to such themes as nature, time, and mortality. The entry then discusses the critical reception of the subject and concludes with an extensive bibliography of general works.
Author : Richard P. Sugg
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810110175
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Jungian Literary Criticism written by Richard P. Sugg and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie Ann Akin
Publisher : Global Touch Press
ISBN 13 : 9781732777606
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (776 download)
Download or read book A Fool's Guide to Clowning written by Leslie Ann Akin and published by Global Touch Press. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leslie Ann Akin, also known as Flower T. Clown, is uniquely qualified to bring together magic and clowning like few other people on the planet. Her book is a treasure trove of practical routines and advice for the serious magic clown hobbyist and professional. Are you a clown who performs at birthday parties, picnics, and parades or visits hospitals? Do you try to overcome the fear of performing and creating a show worth paying for? Are you clueless about how to start? This book is for clowns or wannabe clowns who already have their makeup and wardrobe established. You will learn how to start a gag file for your one-liners, plan birthday party routines, work a company picnic, meet hospital staff and patients, and a whole lot more.
Author : Charles E. Schwarz
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491747862
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book Visit to the Circus of Fools written by Charles E. Schwarz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Peoples, definitely an optimistic person, has just received an important assignment: to visit various lands, each famous for a particular social advance. With orders to report back to his superiors on each land's successful methods and how his country can achieve social betterment as a result, Peoples prepares to leave his girlfriend and best friend behind, and embark on his journey accompanied by two other investigating visitors: the attractive Sunni Childless and the young and ambitious Omar Hinki. As Peoples and the two other visitors agree to separate and launch solo investigations, he begins his romp through ten strange, frightening, and laughable lands where he is confronted with humorous social and non-political spoofs as well as personal struggles that eventually lead him to shed his optimistic persona and embrace pessimism. Forced to question his beliefs, trust in strangers, and face danger, Peoples manages to survive his journey and return home, only to discover he has lost everything. Now jobless, aimless, and without a purpose, Peoples must somehow find his way back to a happy life. Visit to the Circus of Fools shares a hero's entertaining, satirical journey through various lands as he learns more than he ever imagined, especially about himself.
Author : C. R. Crane Ii
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434333957
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)
Download or read book The Empty Room written by C. R. Crane Ii and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Click this link to read a review of Optimum Health and Healing. What is new in his latest book? A revolutionary way of looking at health. Integration of traditional and modern techniques and skills in understanding and treating health problems. Healthy lifestyle and non-invasive natural therapies for your health concerns. Alternative medical models to stimulate the body's natural healing potential. Ways and means to promote a sense of well-being which modern medicine fails to provide.
Author : Paul Bouissac
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110218313
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Semiotics at the Circus written by Paul Bouissac and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semiotics is long on theoretical, often obscure discourses, but short on applications that demonstrate with clarity the applicability of its methods. This book confronts a challenging object, the circus, and endeavors to describe its performances in ways that explain how circus acts produce meaning and cause a deep emotional involvement for their audiences. The approach is not top-down, such as would be a method that would dogmatically apply a particular theory to fully explain the phenomena in terms of this theory alone. Epistemologically, this book is an example of the bottom-up strategy, which consists of considering first the objects and heuristically calling upon methodological resources in a broad theoretical array to come to grips with the problems that are encountered. Any circus act is a complex event that has cognitive and emotional dimensions. It is also a part of a history and an institution, and cannot be abstracted from its cultural and sociological contexts. Thus the range of relevant theoretical and methodological approaches must include structural semiotics, biosemiotics, pragmatics, socio-semiotics, cultural anthropology, the cognitive sciences, the psychology and sociology of emotions, to name only the most important. But the ultimate focus of this book is to enable the readers to better understand the meaning of circus performances and to appreciate the skills and creativity of this traditional popular art, which constantly renews itself from generation to generation.
Author : Linda Evans
Publisher : Post Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 1618687905
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (186 download)
Download or read book Recipes for Life written by Linda Evans and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Recipes for Life Linda Evans warmly and candidly serves up a delightful banquet that her Dynasty fans will truly savor. Complete with over 40 recipes, some handed down through generations (Mom's Hot Dog Stew), some taught by famous friends (John Wayne “The Duke's” Crab Dip), some inspired by supreme dining experiences from travels around the world (Ina Garten’s Filet of Beef Bourguignon), and still others from her winning appearance on Hell's Kitchen (Hell's Salmon), Recipes for Life is at once a delightful journey and a treasure trove of recipes of a life well-lived by a woman well-loved.
Author : Peter L. Berger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110810662
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Redeeming Laughter written by Peter L. Berger and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of numerous previous books of broad appeal and scholarly acclaim on subjects ranging from sociological theory to religious ethics in government and economic systems, and the coauthor of a vastly influential treatise on The Social Construction of Reality, Berger unfolds in Redeeming Laughter a new perspective on a classic domain. Berger's comic terrain is at once noble and amusing, the terrain of Erasmus and Swift. Like his predecessors', Berger's writing in these pages is bolstered with exemplary learning and wry observation.
Author : Dassia N. Posner
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810133571
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Director's Prism written by Dassia N. Posner and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Director's Prism investigates how and why three of Russia's most innovative directors— Vsevolod Meyerhold, Alexander Tairov, and Sergei Eisenstein—used the fantastical tales of German Romantic writer E. T. A. Hoffmann to reinvent the rules of theatrical practice. Because the rise of the director and the Russian cult of Hoffmann closely coincided, Posner argues, many characteristics we associate with avant-garde theater—subjective perspective, breaking through the fourth wall, activating the spectator as a co-creator—become uniquely legible in the context of this engagement. Posner examines the artistic poetics of Meyerhold's grotesque, Tairov's mime-drama, and Eisenstein's theatrical attraction through production analyses, based on extensive archival research, that challenge the notion of theater as a mirror to life, instead viewing the director as a prism through whom life is refracted. A resource for scholars and practitioners alike, this groundbreaking study provides a fresh, provocative perspective on experimental theater, intercultural borrowings, and the nature of the creative process.
Author : Sandra Billington
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571299997
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book A Social History of the Fool written by Sandra Billington and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the Fool and what does he mean to us? Pre-1900 scholars thought him a Renaissance fashion, a continental import of note in the British Isles only between 1486 and the 1630s, per his appearances in Shakespeare's plays. However, as Sandra Billington shows in this pioneering study, the Fool has been with us from medieval times and has worn many guises: village idiot and sophisticated comedian, embodiment of Satan and God's own jester. He has managed, as Billington notes, 'to inspire or infect our thinking for at least eight hundred years'.
Author : R. S. Perinbanayagam
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461645263
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Presence of Self written by R. S. Perinbanayagam and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-01-19 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on ideas from Charles Sanders Peirce, George Herbert Mead, Kenneth Burke, and Mikhail Bakhtin, this work focuses on the centrality of the social act in describing and understanding the beingness of the human individual, situating such acts in dialogic and rhetorical processes. Such processes enable actors to give presence to their selves and, it is claimed, put them into play by using both a logic and a poetic of identity.
Author : Irene Rima Makaryk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802088499
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (884 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare in the Undiscovered Bourn written by Irene Rima Makaryk and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the theatre in Kyiv and Kharkiv in the years following the 1917 Revolution. Irena Makaryk draws on her knowledge of Shakespearian scholarship and postcolonial theory in order to illuminate Kurbas's contest with the ethnographic realist traditions of Ukraine and with the Soviet authorities. --book jacket.
Author : William Willeford
Publisher : [Evanston, Ill.] : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Fool and His Scepter written by William Willeford and published by [Evanston, Ill.] : Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Duncan Wall
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307962296
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Ordinary Acrobat written by Duncan Wall and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of a young man’s plunge into the unique and wonderful world of the circus—taking readers deep into circus history and its renaissance as a contemporary art form, and behind the (tented) walls of France’s most prestigious circus school. When Duncan Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as a college student in Paris, everything about it—the monochromatic costumes, the acrobat singing Simon and Garfunkel, the juggler reciting Proust—was captivating. Soon he was waiting outside stage doors, eagerly chatting with the stars, and attending circuses two or three nights a week. So great was his enthusiasm that a year later he applied on a whim to the training program at the École Nationale des Arts du Cirque—and was, to his surprise, accepted. Sometimes scary and often funny, The Ordinary Acrobat follows the (occasionally literal) collision of one American novice and a host of gifted international students in a rigorous regimen of tumbling, trapeze, juggling, and clowning. Along the way, Wall introduces readers to all the ambition, beauty, and thrills of the circus’s long history: from hardscrabble beginnings to Gilded Age treasures, and from twentieth-century artistic and economic struggles to its brilliant reemergence in the form of contemporary circus (most prominently through Cirque du Soleil). Readers meet figures past—the father of the circus, Philip Astley; the larger-than-life P. T. Barnum—and present, as Wall seeks lessons from innovative masters including juggler Jérôme Thomas and clown André Riot-Sarcey. As Wall learns, not everyone is destined to run away with the circus—but the institution fascinates just the same. Brimming with surprises, outsized personalities, and plenty of charm, The Ordinary Acrobat delivers all the excitement and pleasure of the circus ring itself.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788758829128
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Clowns written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
