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Author : Michael Benedikt
Publisher : New York : Dutton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Modern French Theatre written by Michael Benedikt and published by New York : Dutton. This book was released on 1964 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Finburgh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230305660
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Contemporary French Theatre and Performance written by C. Finburgh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to explore the relationship between experimental theatre and performance making in France. Reflecting the recent return to aesthetics and politics in French theory, it focuses on how a variety of theatre and performance practitioners use their art work to contest reality as it is currently configured in France.
Author : Susanna Phillippo
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783034308519
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Hellenic Whispers written by Susanna Phillippo and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book builds a picture of how Greek literature was reworked by the authors of seventeenth-century French tragedy. The text explores the complex interactions surrounding these adaptations, involving the input of scribes, editors, translators and earlier authors, and asks the important question of what these dramatists conceived of themselves as doing.
Author : Theresa Varney Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781472484543
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Women's Deliberation written by Theresa Varney Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deliberating the Heroine in Early Modern French Womens Theater argues that women playwrights used their heroines as a vehicle through which to question traditional views on women. Denied the powers of cleverness, the authority of deliberation, and the right to speak, heroines were often excluded from central roles in plays by leading male playwrights from this period. Women playwrights, on the other hand, embraced the ideas necessary to expand the boundaries of female heroism. Heroines in tragicomedies, comedies, and tragedies from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries reflect a shift in mentalities toward rationality and female agency. Author Theresa Kennedy argues that the deliberative heroine, emerging at the dawn of the eighteenth century, is the most fully developed, exuding all the characteristics of the modern-day heroine. Though she embodies many of the qualities of her heroine counterparts, she also responds to them. Only the deliberative heroine, based on Enlightenment ideals"such as womens ability to rationalize and the complex interplay between reason and sentiment"truly liberates female characters from a history of traditional roles. Whereas other heroines act in accordance with social construct or on impulse, the deliberative heroine is active, and her determination to follow through with her own line of reasoning"that involves both mind and heart"enables her to determine the outcome of events. In the end, this new generation of heroines ushered in an era where women playwrights could make their own contribution to dramatic works at the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Anne Ubersfeld
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802082404
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (824 download)
Download or read book Reading Theatre written by Anne Ubersfeld and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ubersfeld show how formal analysis can enrich the work of theatre practioners and offers a reading of the symbolic structures of stage space and time as well as opening up mulitple possibilities for interpreting a play's line of action.
Author : Jennifer Eun-Jung Row
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810144727
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Queer Velocities written by Jennifer Eun-Jung Row and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage explores how seventeenth-century French theater represents queer desire. In this book, the first queer theoretical treatment of canonical French theater, Jennifer Eun-Jung Row proposes that these velocities, moments of unseemly haste or strategic delay, sparked new kinds of attachments, intimacies, and erotics. Rather than rely on fixed identities or analog categories, we might turn to these affectively saturated moments of temporal sensation to analyze queerness in the premodern world. The twin innovations of precise, portable timepieces and the development of the theater as a state institution together ignited new types of embodiments, orderly and disorderly pleasures, and normative and wayward rhythms of life. Row leverages a painstakingly formalist and rhetorical analysis of tragedies by Jean Racine and Pierre Corneille to show how the staging of delay or haste can critically interrupt the normative temporalities of marriage, motherhood, mourning, or sovereignty—the quotidian rhythms and paradigms so necessary for the biopolitical management of life. Row’s approach builds on the queer turn to temporality and Elizabeth Freeman’s notion of the chronobiopolitical to wager that queerness can also be fostered by the sensations of disruptive speed and slowness. Ultimately, Row suggests that the theater not only contributed to the glitter of Louis XIV’s absolutist spectacle but also ignited new forms of knowing and feeling time, as well as new modes of loving, living, and being together.
Author : David Bradby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521408431
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Modern French Drama 1940-1990 written by David Bradby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-05-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated account and comparison of the major traditions and tendencies in the French theatre from 1940-1990.
Author : David Bradby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521278812
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (788 download)
Download or read book Modern French Drama 1940-1980 written by David Bradby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-09-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years since 1940, French theatre has been transformed both institutionally and artistically. This book compares all the major traditions and tendencies at work in French theatre since the outbreak of the Second World War, not only in Paris, but also in the Centres Dramatiques and Maisons de la Culture. Previous books have stopped short at the end of the fifties when the influence of Artaud was strong and the Absurd Theatre had become the new orthodoxy. David Bradby reassesses Beckett, lonesco, Adamov and Genet and challenges the notion that the sixties and seventies were a period of decline in French theatre. The book proceeds chronologically, offering a critical survey of the principal directors, actors and companies as well as of the playwrights, who are its major concern. Important productions are illustrated with black and white photographs. The political background is explained and all quotations are in English.
Author : Frédéric Royall
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039100743
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Contemporary French Cultures and Societies written by Frédéric Royall and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary collection of writings on various aspects of change in contemporary French-speaking society, spanning the broad fields of politics and society, arts and culture, the French language, and francophone literatures.
Author : William Kidd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1444165569
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Contemporary French Cultural Studies written by William Kidd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of French culture has long ceased to be purely centred on literature. Undergraduate French courses now embrace all forms of cultural production and consumption, and students need to have a broad knowledge of everything from day-time TV and the latest detective novels to debates about national identity and immigration policies. This stimulating text is an introduction to the full range of contemporary French culture. Written by a group of leading academics both within and outside France, each chapter focuses on a topic from the French cultural scene today. Starting with an overview of resources for further information (both in print and online), the text discusses the varied forms of French cultural expression and looks critically at what 'Frenchness' itself means. The book also explores examples of cultural production ranging from sport, media and literature to theatre, cinema, festivals and music. An essential resource for students and scholars alike, this text provides detailed material and analysis, as well as a launch-pad for further study.
Author : Alexandra Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134788657
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture written by Alexandra Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 700 alphabetically organized entries by an international team of contributors provide a fascinating survey of French culture post 1945. Entries include: * advertising * Beur cinema * Coco Chanel * decolonization * écriture feminine * football * francophone press * gay activism * Seuil * youth culture Entries range from short factual/biographical pieces to longer overview articles. All are extensively cross-referenced and longer entries are 'facts-fronted' so important information is clear at a glance. It includes a thematic contents list, extensive index and suggestions for further reading. The Encyclopedia will provide hours of enjoyable browsing for all francophiles, and essential cultural context for students of French, Modern History, Comparative European Studies and Cultural Studies.
Author : Hugh Allison Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Main Currents of Modern French Drama written by Hugh Allison Smith and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barrett Harper Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Modern French Drama, Study Course No. 7 written by Barrett Harper Clark and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theresa Varney Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317153367
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Women’s Deliberation: The Heroine in Early Modern French Women’s Theater (1650–1750) written by Theresa Varney Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women’s Deliberation: The Heroine in Early Modern French Women’s Theater (1650–1750) argues that women playwrights question traditional views on women through their heroines. Denied the powers of cleverness, the authority of deliberation, and the right to speak, heroines were often excluded from central roles in plays by leading male playwrights from this period. Women playwrights, on the other hand, embraced the ideas necessary to expand the boundaries of female heroism. Heroines in plays from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries reflect a shift in mentalities toward rationality and female agency. I argue that the "deliberative heroine," emerging at the dawn of the eighteenth century, is the most fully developed, exuding all the characteristics of the modern-day heroine. Although she embodies many of the qualities of her heroine counterparts, she also responds to them. Only the deliberative heroine, based on Enlightenment ideals—such as women’s ability to rationalize and the complex interplay between reason and sentiment—truly liberates female characters from a history of traditional roles. Whereas other heroines act in accordance with social construct or on impulse, the "deliberative heroine" realizes the ideals of the seventeenth-century salons that petitioned for women to have "greater control over their own bodies" (DeJean 21). She is active, and her determination to follow through with her own line of reasoning—that involves both mind and heart—enables her to determine the outcome of events. In the end, this new generation of heroines ushered in an era where women playwrights could make their own contribution to dramatic works at the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment.
Author : Augustin Filon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Modern French Drama written by Augustin Filon and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sheila Alice Morrissey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Money as a Social Problem in the Modern French Theatre written by Sheila Alice Morrissey and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Benedikt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Postwar German Theatre written by Michael Benedikt and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
