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Author : Shirley Staples Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (194 download)
Download or read book The Grotesque in Dürrenmatt's Comedies written by Shirley Staples Baker and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Tamarkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Friedrich Durrenmatt's The Physicists in Production written by Nicholas Tamarkin and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timo Tiusanen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400871468
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Durrenmatt written by Timo Tiusanen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dürrenmatt's apparently conflicting statements about his central concerns have baffled scholars attempting to interpret his works. In his critical approach to Dürrenmatt, Timo Tiusanen emphasizes the author's relation to the theater, and analyzes the thirteen original stage plays, eight radio plays, and five adaptations, using the special concept of "scenic image" developed in an earlier study of O'Neill. Four books by Dürrenmatt on the theater and politics are related to the dramatist's creative practice, and his six books of prose are also carefully considered. Exploring the writer's career to reconcile conflicting attitudes that have been taken toward his work, Timo Tiusanen sees Dürrenmatt's writings as representing a persistent effort to express artistically a paradoxical view of the world. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Michael Y. Bennett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040001610
Total Pages : 803 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature written by Michael Y. Bennett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature is the first authoritative and definitive edited collection on absurdist literature. As a field-defining volume, the editor and the contributors are world leaders in this ever-exciting genre that includes some of the most important and influential writers of the twentieth century, including Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet, and Albert Camus. Ever puzzling and always refusing to be pinned down, this book does not attempt to define absurdist literature, but attempts to examine its major and minor players. As such, the field is indirectly defined by examining its constituent writers. Not only investigating the so-called “Theatre of the Absurd,” this volume wades deeply into absurdist fiction and absurdist poetry, expanding much of our previous sense of what constitutes absurdist literature. Furthermore, long overdue, approximately one-third of the book is devoted to marginalized writers: black, Latin/x, female, LGBTQ+, and non-Western voices.
Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780802130662
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Visit written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A millionairess returns to her home town to seek revenge on a man who wronged her in her youth.
Author : Sylvia Traver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book A Study of Grotesque Elements in the Early Dramas of Friedrich Dürrenmatt written by Sylvia Traver and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Hutchinson
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039101856
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Landmarks in German Comedy written by Peter Hutchinson and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public demand for comedy has always been high in the German-speaking countries, but the number of comic dramas that have survived is relatively small. Those which are still read or regularly performed all have a serious purpose, and this collection of fourteen essays on the most distinguished of them shows how laughter can be exploited to treat personal, moral, and social problems in a way that would not be possible in tragedy. The texts range from the seventeenth to the late twentieth century, and no fewer than half of them are by Austrian writers. The contributors show how these plays are often subversive, regularly arousing an uncomfortable, self-challenging laughter, and how they treat such widely ranging subjects as language and communication, the complications of the sex drive, the inflexibility of the Prussian mind, and the behaviour of Austrian celebrities during the Third Reich. The essays are all written by specialists in the field and were originally delivered as lectures in the University of Cambridge.
Author : Gabrijela Buljan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527557375
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Essays in Honour of Boris Berić’s Sixty-Fifth Birthday written by Gabrijela Buljan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as a Festschrift honouring a beloved professor, colleague, and friend, this volume comprises a collection of essays offering a wide array of contemporary approaches to literature, linguistics, and applied linguistics. It covers a variety of topics, ranging from medieval to contemporary literature and language, and explores genres as diverse as fantasy, dystopia, drama, poetry, and film, addressing issues such as post- and transhumanism, age, gender, identity, family, metonymy, and narrative discourse. The diversity of themes and methodologies here makes the collection a widely applicable resource in the academic discussion of literature, language, and culture, both as a significant contribution to different philological fields and a useful educational tool for anyone teaching or studying English, Anglophone literature, British, American, and German studies, English as a Second Language, linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and applied linguistics, or conducting research in these fields.
Author : Craig Stewart Walker
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773520752
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Buried Astrolabe written by Craig Stewart Walker and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical introduction to contemporary Canadian playwriting.
Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Writings on Theatre and Drama written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1976 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ervin Malakaj
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110571986
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Slapstick: An Interdisciplinary Companion written by Ervin Malakaj and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its unabated popularity with audiences, slapstick has received rather little scholarly attention, mostly by scholars concentrating on the US theater and cinema traditions. Nonetheless, as a form of physical humor slapstick has a long history across various areas of cultural production. This volume approaches slapstick both as a genre of situational physical comedy and as a mode of communicating an affective situation captured in various cultural products. Contributors to the volume examine cinematic, literary, dramatic, musical, and photographic texts and performances. From medieval chivalric romance and nineteenth-century theater to contemporary photography, the contributors study treatments of slapstick across media, periods and geographic locations. The aim of a study of such wide scope is to demonstrate how slapstick emerged from a variety of complex interactions among different traditions and by extension, to illustrate that slapstick can be highly productive for interdisciplinary research.
Author : C.W.E. Bigsby
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040145795
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Joe Orton written by C.W.E. Bigsby and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Orton’s roots lay in traditions as diverse as those represented by such writers as Wycherley, Congreve, Wilde, Shaw, Carroll, Firbank, Feydeau, Beckett and Pinter, he developed a form of ‘anarchic farce’ which was very much his own – hence the word ‘Ortonesque’. His work was deliberately subversive, not merely of the authority figures which he included in nearly all his plays, but of language and the congenialities of plot and character. Originally published in 1982, this study examines Orton’s principal plays, but its main concern is to identify his aesthetic, to elaborate the nature and achievements of anarchic farce and to locate him in relation to the developments in contemporary literature and art which have formed essential components of a post-modern sensibility.
Author : I. Glicksberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401027706
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Literature and Society written by I. Glicksberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Prolegomena The purpose of this book is to examine anew and from a number of different perspectives the highly complex and controversial relation between literature and society. This is not meant to be a study in sociology or political science; the analysis of literature - its structure, content, function, and effect - is our primary concern. What we shall try to find out is how the imaginative work is rooted in and grows out of the parent social body, to what extent it is influenced in subject matter as well as form and technique by the domi nant climate of ideas in a given historical period, and to what degree and in what manner literature "influences" the society to which it is addressed. The stream of literary influence is of course difficult to trace to its putative source, for here we are not dealing, as in science, with isolated physical phenomena which can be fitted precisely within some cause-and-effect pat tern. The relationship between literature and society is far more subtle and complex than social scientists or cultural critics commonly assume.
Author : Anupam Vatsyayan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443857319
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Re-visiting and Re-staging written by Anupam Vatsyayan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a novel approach to the world of adaptations through an intense cross-cultural study. The concept of ‘adaptation’ is extensively discussed here, exploring its meaning and relevance, as well as the various forms it takes. The book investigates what happens when three 20th century European plays, considered as landmark works of the age, are adapted to the Indian context in three different languages; discussing the dynamics and the results of this. It takes us into the minds of the creators – playwrights, adapters, directors, actors, and producers, and ‘others’. The interviews with directors who suffused the western plays with Indian flavor and served them to the local audience also provide valuable insights about theatrical, cultural, and ideological concerns. It also represents an interesting collection of examples and analogies hand-picked from the wide space of literature, theatre, and cinema. It offers a comprehensive base for a thorough understanding of adaptations and the allied multi-disciplinary issues.
Author : Bert Cardullo
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945636243
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (362 download)
Download or read book German-language Comedy written by Bert Cardullo and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first English collection of the greatest comedies written in German from the late-eighteenth to the late-nineteenth centuries. Each of the translated comedies is placed in historical context and in relationship to its author's life as well as his other plays, and each is followed by a select bibliography of English-language criticism and interpretation.
Author : Bodo Fritzen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Friedrich Dürrenmatt, a Collection of Critical Essays written by Bodo Fritzen and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826402578
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Plays and Essays: Friedrich Dürrenmatt written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1982-06-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six richly inventive pieces by the Swiss master of existentialist theater. Includes "Romulus the Great, 21 Points to the Physician," and "A Monster Lecture on Justice and Law.">
