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Durrenmatt

Author : Timo Tiusanen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400871468
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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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.

The Physicists

Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Physicists written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comedy melodrama concerning three mad physicists in a Swiss sanatorium.

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Author : Murray B. Peppard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Friedrich Dürrenmatt written by Murray B. Peppard and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dürrenmatt

Author : Urs Jenny
Publisher : London : Eyre Methuen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dürrenmatt written by Urs Jenny and published by London : Eyre Methuen. This book was released on 1978 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plays and Essays: Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826402578
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)

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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.">

The Sense of Beauty

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412838900
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book The Sense of Beauty written by George Santayana and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the introduction to this new edition, John McCormick, reminds us that The Sense of Beauty is the first work in aesthetics written in the United States. Santayana was versed in the history of his subject, from Plato and Aristotle to Schopenhauer and Taine in the nineteenth century. Santayana took as his task a complete rethinking of the idea that beauty is embedded in objects. Rather, beauty is an emotion, a value, and a sense of the good. In this aesthetics was unlike ethics: not a correction of evil or pursuit of the virtuous. Rather it is a pleasure that residues in the sense of self. The work is divided into chapters on the materials of beauty, form, and expression. A good many of Santayana's later works are presaged by this early effort. And this volume also anticipates the development of art as a movement as well as a value apart from other aspects of life.

Basic Concepts of Poetics

Author : Emil Staiger
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271042656
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Basic Concepts of Poetics written by Emil Staiger and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Assignment

Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022653054X
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Assignment written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s experimental thriller The Assignment, the wife of a psychiatrist has been raped and killed near a desert ruin in North Africa. Her husband hires a woman named F. to reconstruct the unsolved crime in a documentary film. F. is soon unwittingly thrust into a paranoid world of international espionage where everyone is watched—including the watchers. After discovering a recent photograph of the supposed murder victim happily reunited with her husband, F. becomes trapped in an apocalyptic landscape riddled with political intrigue, crimes of mistaken identity, and terrorism. F.’s labyrinthine quest for the truth is Dürrenmatt’s fictionalized warning against the dangers of a technologically advanced society that turns everyday life into one of constant scrutiny. Joel Agee’s elegant translation will introduce a fresh generation of English-speaking readers to one of European literature’s masters of language, suspense, and dystopia. “The narrative is accelerated from the start. . . . As the novella builds to its horripilating climax, we realize the extent to which all values have thereby been inverted. The Assignment is a parable of hell for an age consumed by images.”—New York Times Book Review “His most ambitious book . . . dark and devious . . . almost obsessively drawn to mankind’s most fiendish crimes.”—Chicago Tribune “A tour-de-force . . . mesmerizing.”—Village Voice

Wedekind and Dürrenmatt

Author : Jan Jopling Seiler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Wedekind and Dürrenmatt written by Jan Jopling Seiler and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modern German Drama

Author : C. D. Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521225762
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (257 download)

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Download or read book Modern German Drama written by C. D. Innes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979-12-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this impressively wide-ranging study of all drama written in German in the period 1945-1977, Christopher Innes' aims are to identify the concerns and perceptions of dramatists working in a specific and unique social context and period and to analyse the major theatrical forms they developed or adapted to express their experience, to trace the writers' literary antecedents, their 'tradition' and to explore the critical issues raised by each stylistic innovation. Professor Innes has organized his discussion around the main forms of theatre - epic, documentary, absurdist and more traditional forms. Redefining these conceptual labels as he progresses, he analyses, in a critical and informed way, the work on the page and the stage of all the major playwrights. This study, which is complemented by photographs of key productions and accompanied by translations for all quotations, will be of particular interest to teachers and students of drama and German, as well as to a wider theatre-going public.

Essays on Twentieth-century German Drama and Theater

Author : Hellmut H. Rennert
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820444031
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Twentieth-century German Drama and Theater written by Hellmut H. Rennert and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles by both German literature specialists and German theater experts grew out of the Comparative Drama Conference held annually between February and March from 1977 to 1999 in Gainesville, Florida. At the center of the contributors' work is the productive tension between the literary and the performance aspects of German drama and theater. At the same time, the reception is truly American, since the German playwrights, directors, theorists, and dramatists discussed have gone through creative filters in the researching, performing, and teaching of German drama and theater on various campuses across the United States during the last third of the twentieth century.

Selected Essays

Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857421685
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Selected Essays written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friedrich Dürrenmatt was one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century, a talent on par with Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Bertolt Brecht. A prolific writer of letters, poems, novels, and shorter fictions, his essays on literary forms as well as those on philosophy and politics provide a window onto his world and his work, demonstrating both his critical acumen and the breadth of his talents as a stylist. Gathered from throughout his long career, the writings featured in Dürrenmatt's Selected Essays are by turns playful and polemical, poetic and provocative, mordantly comical and deadly serious. Critics have often been perplexed by Dürrenmatt's sudden shifts--from stage to prose and back, from comedy to tragedy and vice versa, from writing to drawing. In this volume, the full range of his interests in arts and letters--and their relationships to each other--becomes evident. In one section, a cluster of essays on the theater illuminate his idiosyncratic dramaturgical theories, drawing on examples from Attic comedy to Schiller, Brecht, and professional wrestling. In another, his philosophical essays intermingle his passionate reflections on ethical and political questions with his skeptical forays into metaphysics. And in autobiographical pieces such as the monumental "Vallon de l'Ermitage," Dürrenmatt offers an intimate look at his "web of time"--the places where he traveled and the people with whom he lived and worked. Suffused with melancholy, flashes of tenderness, and the author's inimitable sense of the grotesque and absurd, these essays provide a compelling look at the author's prodigious strength as a writer of nonfiction.

Re-visiting and Re-staging

Author : Anupam Vatsyayan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443857319
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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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.

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.

Theo-Drama

Author : Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681495759
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Theo-Drama written by Hans Urs Von Balthasar and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the introduction to the second part of the trilogy which is von Balthasar's major work. The Glory of the Lord approaches revelation from the standpoint of the beautiful. The final part of the trilogy, the Theo-Logic, will treat Christian revelation from the standpoint of the true. In this first volume von Balthasar shows how many of the trends of modern theology (e.g. "event", "history", "orthopraxy", "dialogue", "political theology") point to an understanding of human and cosmic reality as a divine drama. He will then consider objections to such a theological dramatic theory and also the relationship between the Church and the theatre. This volume assembles the materials and the themes that will make it possible in subsequent volumes to develop this theological dramatic theory. "...meeting Balthasar was for me the beginning of a lifelong friendship I can only be thankful for. Never again have I found anyone with such a comprehensive theological and humanistic education as Balthasar and de Lubac, and I cannot even begin to say how much I owe to my encounter with them." - Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI)

Western Drama through the Ages [2 volumes]

Author : Kimball King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313090246
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Western Drama through the Ages [2 volumes] written by Kimball King and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The West has a long and rich dramatic tradition, and its dramatic works typically reflect the social and political concerns of playwrights and spectators. This book surveys the Western dramatic tradition from Ancient Greece to modern America. Included are chapters on great eras of drama, such as the Renaissance; national theatres, such as the theatres of Latin America, Ireland, and Poland; important theatrical movements, such as musical theatre and African American drama; and influential theatre styles, such as realism, expressionism, and surrealism. Entries are written by leading authorities and cite works for further reading. Students of literature and drama will appreciate the book for its convenient overview of the Western theatrical tradition, while students of history and social studies will welcome its illumination of different cultures and traditions. Designed for students, the book overviews Western drama from Ancient Greece to modern America. Included are chapters on great eras of drama, such as the Renaissance; national theatres, such as the theatres of Latin America, Ireland, and Poland; important theatrical movements, such as musical theatre and African American drama; and influential theatre styles, such as realism, expressionism, and surrealism. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and offers an extended consideration of its topic and cites works for further reading. Students of drama and literature will value the book for its exploration of the Western theatrical tradition, while students of history and social studies will welcome its illumination of different cultures and traditions.

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022653118X
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Friedrich Dürrenmatt written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-10-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s fiction introduce the writer to a new generation of readers. The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the cold war, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. Yet outside Europe, this prolific author is primarily known for only one work, The Visit. This second volume of Selected Writings reveals a writer who may stand as Kafka’s greatest heir. Dürrenmatt’s novellas and short stories are searing, tragicomic explorations of the ironies of justice and the corruptibility of institutions. The most well-known work included here is The Pledge, a requiem to the detective story that was made into a film starring Jack Nicholson. The evocative novellas The Assignment tells the story of a woman filmmaker investigating a mysterious murder in an unnamed Arab country; it has been hailed by Sven Birkerts as “a parable of hell for an age consumed by images.” The novella Traps, meanwhile, is a chilling comic novella about a traveling salesman who agrees to play the role of the defendant in a mock trial among dinner companions—and then pays the ultimate penalty. Dürrenmatt has long been considered a great writer, but one unfairly neglected in the modern world of letters. With these elegantly conceived and expertly translated volumes, a new generation of readers will rediscover his greatest works.