Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul

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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 080219527X
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul by : Tom Stoppard

Download or read book Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Professional Foul written by Tom Stoppard and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is Tom Stoppard's very special skill as the master comedian of ideas in the modern theater to create brilliant, biting humor out of serious concerns. Virtually assaulting the audience with a cascade of words and a conspicuous display of intellect, Stoppard, in "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor," contrasts the circumstances of a political prisoner and a mental patient in a Soviet insane asylum, to question the difference, if any, between free will and the freedom to conform. The situation, in which the mental patient "hears" an orchestra, is both chilling and funny as we are introduced to two men who happen to share the same name, are in carcerated in the same cell, and are attended by the same doctor.

The Art of Listening

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317367189
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis The Art of Listening by : R. S. White

Download or read book The Art of Listening written by R. S. White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986. This collection of essays is unified by one leading idea: that the active and creative abilities of listeners and readers deserve as much attention as the skills of speakers and writers. It is shown that hearers, far from being passive recipients in the communicative process, are in fact active in selecting, interpreting and creating from the disparate signals they receive. Equally, readers are involved in creating individual patterns of significance from a text. In presenting this argument, some essays deal with the importance of gender considerations, some with special modes of writing such as the private diary and literary translations, and others with the more familiar fields of poetry and drama. In the sphere of popular music, distinctions such as ‘folk’ and ‘pop’ indicate special problems in assessing the ‘authenticity’ of a listener’s response. By concentrating on active listening, the collection develops and illustrates the conviction that there are fundamental premises underlying the various disciplines under review, the analysis of which makes for a fuller understanding of communication in all its forms.

Tom Stoppard

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786465328
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis Tom Stoppard by : Daniel Keith Jernigan

Download or read book Tom Stoppard written by Daniel Keith Jernigan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Stoppard is justly famous for his innovative theatrical techniques. Daniel Jernigan argues that while much of Tom Stoppard's early work (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Real Inspector Hound, for instance) is postmodern, the remainder of his career essentially tracks backward from there--becoming "late modernist" in the 1970s (Travesties) and fully modernist in the 80s and 90s (The Real Thing and Arcadia). This pattern also makes sense of Stoppard's recent and uncharacteristic foray into dramatic realism with The Coast of Utopia (2002) and Rock 'n' Roll (2006), at which point the playwright seems to embrace the more straightforward rhetorical advantages of literary realism.

New Makers of Modern Culture

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136768815
Total Pages : 2569 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Book Synopsis New Makers of Modern Culture by : Justin Wintle

Download or read book New Makers of Modern Culture written by Justin Wintle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 2569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Makers of Modern Culture is the successor to the classic reference works Makers of Modern Culture and Makers of Nineteenth-Century Culture, published by Routledge in the early 1980s. The set was extremely successful and continues to be used to this day, due to the high quality of the writing, the distinguished contributors, and the cultural sensitivity shown in the selection of those individuals included. New Makers of Modern Culture takes into full account the rise and fall of reputation and influence over the last twenty-five years and the epochal changes that have occurred: the demise of Marxism and the collapse of the Soviet Union; the rise and fall of postmodernism; the eruption of Islamic fundamentalism; the triumph of the Internet. Containing over eight hundred essay-style entries, and covering the period from 1850 to the present, New Makers of Modern Culture includes artists, writers, dramatists, architects, philosophers, anthropologists, scientists, sociologists, major political figures, composers, film-makers and many other culturally significant individuals and is thoroughly international in its purview. Next to Karl Marx is Bob Marley, next to John Ruskin is Salman Rushdie, alongside Darwin is Luigi Dallapiccola, Deng Xiaoping runs shoulders with Jacques Derrida as do Julia Kristeva and Kropotkin. Once again, Wintle has enlisted the services of many distinguished writers and leading academics, such as Sam Beer, Bernard Crick, Edward Seidensticker and Paul Preston. In a few cases, for example Michael Holroyd and Philip Larkin, contributors are themselves the subject of entries. With its global reach, New Makers of Modern Culture provides a multi-voiced witness of the contemporary thinking world. The entries carry short bibliographies and there is thorough cross-referencing. There is an index of names and key terms.

Tom Stoppard’s Plays

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004319654
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Tom Stoppard’s Plays by : Nigel Purse

Download or read book Tom Stoppard’s Plays written by Nigel Purse and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tom Stoppard’s Plays: Patterns of Plenitude and Parsimony Nigel Purse assesses the complete canon of Tom Stoppard’s works on a thematic basis. He explains that, amongst the plenitude of chaotic comedy, wordplay and intellectual ping-pong of Stoppard’s plays, the principle of parsimony that is Occam’s razor lies at the heart of his works. He identifies key patterns in theme – ethics and duality - and method – Stoppard’s stage debates and his dramatic vehicles - as well as in theatrical devices. Quoting extensively from all Stoppard’s published works, many of his interviews and also unpublished material Nigel Purse arrives at a comprehensive and unique appraisal of Stoppard’s plays.

The Concise New Makers of Modern Culture

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134021399
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis The Concise New Makers of Modern Culture by : Justin Wintle

Download or read book The Concise New Makers of Modern Culture written by Justin Wintle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-28 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Who's Who of Western culture, from Woody Allen to Emile Zola... Containing four hundred essay-style entries, and covering the period from 1850 to the present, The Concise New Makers of Modern Culture includes artists, writers, dramatists, architects, philosophers, anthropologists, scientists, sociologists, major political figures, composers, film-makers and many other culturally significant individuals and is thoroughly international in its purview. Next to Karl Marx is Bob Marley, with John Ruskin is Salman Rushdie, alongside Darwin is Luigi Dallapiccola, Deng Xiaoping rubs shoulders with Jacques Derrida as do Julia Kristeva and Kropotkin. With its global reach, The Concise New Makers of Modern Culture provides a multi-voiced witness of the contemporary thinking world. The entries carry short bibliographies and there is thorough cross-referencing as well as an index of names and key terms.

Tom Stoppard

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134917789X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Book Synopsis Tom Stoppard by : Tim Brassell

Download or read book Tom Stoppard written by Tim Brassell and published by Springer. This book was released on 1985-03-18 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Function of Song in Contemporary British Drama

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Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874133585
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (335 download)

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Book Synopsis The Function of Song in Contemporary British Drama by : Elizabeth Hale Winkler

Download or read book The Function of Song in Contemporary British Drama written by Elizabeth Hale Winkler and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study formulates an original theory that dramatic song must be perceived as a separate genre situated between poetry, music, and theater. It focuses on John Arden, Margaretta D'Arcy, Edward Bond, Peter Barnes, John Osborne, Peter Nichols, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer, and John McGrath.

Tom Stoppard in Conversation

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472065615
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (656 download)

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Book Synopsis Tom Stoppard in Conversation by : Tom Stoppard

Download or read book Tom Stoppard in Conversation written by Tom Stoppard and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British playwright Tom Stoppard in his own words

Tom Stoppard

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349206032
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Book Synopsis Tom Stoppard by : P. Delany

Download or read book Tom Stoppard written by P. Delany and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every four or five years Britain's most prominent dramatist pulls out all the stops and writes a major stage play of his own. Between plays, Stoppard the craftsman does translations, screenplays, light entertainments, and work for hire. Delaney's book is the first to focus on the major plays. Spanning Stoppard's career from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967) to Hapgood (1988), this study shows the figure which Stoppard from the first has been weaving in his theatrical tapestry. That there is development in Stoppard is clear but - as Delaney demonstrates - the development is from moral affirmation to moral application, from the assertion of moral principles to the enactment of moral practice. Such development from precept to praxis demonstrates organic growth rather than radical metamorphosis. Using Stoppard's words in a number of little-known interviews as a starting-point, Delaney shows how the major plays bear out Stoppard's contention that he 'tries to be consistent about morality'. The volume contains the most extensive bibliography and discography of Stoppard interviews (over 200 including print and broadcast sources) ever compiled.

British Playwrights, 1956-1995

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1567507433
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Book Synopsis British Playwrights, 1956-1995 by : William W. Demastes

Download or read book British Playwrights, 1956-1995 written by William W. Demastes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-10-23 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1956 marked a point when British drama and theater fell into the hands of a group of young playwrights who revolutionized the stage. During that time, playwrights such as Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter made the British theater as rich, varied, and vital as any national theater in history. This reference chronicles the history of British theater from 1956 to 1995 by providing detailed information about the playwrights of that period. Included are entries for some three dozen British playwrights active between 1956 and 1995. Entries are arranged alphabetically to facilitate use. Each entry supplies biographical information, the production history for particular plays, a survey of the playwright's critical reception, an assessment of the dramatist's work, and primary and secondary bibliographies. A selected, general bibliography at the end of the volume directs the reader to important sources of additional information about this period in theater history.

A Stylistics of Drama

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Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971691820
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (918 download)

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Book Synopsis A Stylistics of Drama by : Peter K. W. Tan

Download or read book A Stylistics of Drama written by Peter K. W. Tan and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study looks at how stylistic methods apply to drama texts, and focuses its attention on Stoppard's Traversties, which, by its parodic nature, compels an investigation of literary parody as an intertextual mode." "The author first seeks to place stylistics within a historical and procedural framework and considers ideological and procedural impasses that have bedevilled stylistic analyses. Detailed analyses of passages from Travesties in the light of what has been discussed then follows."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Invention of Love

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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802191703
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis The Invention of Love by : Tom Stoppard

Download or read book The Invention of Love written by Tom Stoppard and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. His memories are dramatically alive. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love connects Hades with the Oxford of Housman's youth: High Victorian morality is under siege from the Aesthetic movement, and an Irish student called Wilde is preparing to burst onto the London scene. On his journey the scholar and poet who is now the elder Housman confronts his younger self, and the memories of the man he loved his entire life, Moses Jackson—the handsome athlete who could not return his feelings. As if a dream, The Invention of Love inhabits Housman's imagination, illuminating both the pain of hopeless love and passion displaced into poetry and the study of classical texts. The author of A Shropshire Lad lived almost invisibly in the shadow of the flamboyant Oscar Wilde, and died old and venerated—but whose passion was truly the fatal one?

Tom Stoppard

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Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0451493222
Total Pages : 921 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Book Synopsis Tom Stoppard by : Hermione Lee

Download or read book Tom Stoppard written by Hermione Lee and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021 with total page 921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf."

A History of Ambiguity

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691228442
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Ambiguity by : Anthony Ossa-Richardson

Download or read book A History of Ambiguity written by Anthony Ossa-Richardson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since it was first published in 1930, William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity has been perceived as a milestone in literary criticism—far from being an impediment to communication, ambiguity now seemed an index of poetic richness and expressive power. Little, however, has been written on the broader trajectory of Western thought about ambiguity before Empson; as a result, the nature of his innovation has been poorly understood. A History of Ambiguity remedies this omission. Starting with classical grammar and rhetoric, and moving on to moral theology, law, biblical exegesis, German philosophy, and literary criticism, Anthony Ossa-Richardson explores the many ways in which readers and theorists posited, denied, conceptualised, and argued over the existence of multiple meanings in texts between antiquity and the twentieth century. This process took on a variety of interconnected forms, from the Renaissance delight in the ‘elegance’ of ambiguities in Horace, through the extraordinary Catholic claim that Scripture could contain multiple literal—and not just allegorical—senses, to the theory of dramatic irony developed in the nineteenth century, a theory intertwined with discoveries of the double meanings in Greek tragedy. Such narratives are not merely of antiquarian interest: rather, they provide an insight into the foundations of modern criticism, revealing deep resonances between acts of interpretation in disparate eras and contexts. A History of Ambiguity lays bare the long tradition of efforts to liberate language, and even a poet’s intention, from the strictures of a single meaning.

Tom Stoppard: The Artist as Critic

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349189707
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Book Synopsis Tom Stoppard: The Artist as Critic by : N. Sammells

Download or read book Tom Stoppard: The Artist as Critic written by N. Sammells and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-12-17 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Human Rights in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Book Synopsis Human Rights in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs

Download or read book Human Rights in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: