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Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226174328
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Friedrich Dürrenmatt written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-10-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
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.">
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 : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
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.
Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781583421567
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Play Strindberg written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1970 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Bennett
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150174545X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Theater as Problem written by Benjamin Bennett and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using examples ranging from nineteenth-century Viennese comedy to Friedrich Dürrenmatt's atomic-age theater, Benjamin Bennett explores what is at stake in the theory of drama; what sort of questioning makes up that theory; and in what direction such questioning leads. Bennett takes as his starting point the inescapably literary nature of theater in the European tradition, theater in its most concrete dimensions: as an institution, as a tradition of ritual or stylized behavior, as a particular type of physical space, as an economic venture. He maintains that, precisely because of its radical categorical disjunction from the domain of the literary, theater in the European tradition has been appropriated as the principal vehicle by which literature repeatedly problematizes itself. Theater, he says, is "the church of literature." Although he is concerned with drama as a literary type, therefore, Bennett does not treat the theory of drama as part of the theory of literature. For the special relation of drama to literature calls into question the whole idea of literary theory as a stable discourse divisible into parts. Bennett considers plays by Nestroy, Schnitzler, Ibsen, Strindberg, Brecht, Ionesco, Genet, Pirandello, Artaud, and Dürrenmatt. He focuses on such theoretical issues as the idea of generic boundaries; the relation between drama and the culture of reading; the relevance between drama and the culture of reading; the relevance of hermeneutic and semiotic views of literature to drama; and the operation of fascism as a literary phenomenon. In conclusion, he frames a problem that his readings have brought to light: at least two separate historical accounts of modern drama are necessary—theories that imply each other, yet remain irreconcilable.
Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573617546
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (175 download)
Download or read book The Visit written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1958 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An older woman who became rich over her life returns to the town of her youth with a dreadful bargain: She wants the townspeople to kill the man who jilted her in exchange for enough money to revitalize the town.
Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022653054X
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
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
Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226174263
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Friedrich Dürrenmatt written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-10-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Friedrich Duerrenmatt
Publisher : Pushkin Vertigo
ISBN 13 : 178227409X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)
Download or read book The Execution of Justice written by Friedrich Duerrenmatt and published by Pushkin Vertigo. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating neo-noir classic from one of the masters of the genre A respected professor is dead—shot in a crowded Zurich restaurant, in front of dozens of witnesses. The murderer calmly turned himself in to the police. So why has he now hired a lawyer to clear his name? And why has he chosen the drink-soaked, disreputable Spät to defend him? As he investigates, Spät finds himself obsessed, drawn ever deeper into a case of baffling complexity until he reaches a deadly conclusion: justice can be restored only by a crime. The Execution of Justice is a dark, wicked satire on the legal system and a disturbing, if ambivalent, allegory on guilt, justice, violence and morality.
Author : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0224009141
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Visit written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and published by Random House. This book was released on 1973 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claire Zachanassian, the richest woman in the world, returns to her poverty-stricken home town. The townspeople are ready to grovel for favours and select as their representative Anton Schell, for Claire and Anton had once been deeply in love. Claire arrives with a sinister menage. She soon announces that she has come for revenge on her onetime sweetheart, offering a million marks for his life. In the nightmarish climax Schell's friends sacrifice him to their greed.
Author : Carmen Dominte
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527559882
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Re-Thinking Character in the Theatre of the Absurd written by Carmen Dominte and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the character as a central element, this volume provides insights into the Theatre of the Absurd, highlighting its specific key characteristics. Adopting both semiotic-structuralist and mathematical approaches, its analysis of the absurdist character introduces new models of investigation, including a possible algebraic model operating on the scenic, dramatic and paradigmatic level of a play, not only exploring the relations, configurations, confrontations, functions and situations but also providing necessary information for a possible geometric model. The book also takes into consideration the relations established among the most important units of a dramatic work, character, cue, décor and régie, re-configuring the basic pattern. It will be useful for any reader interested in analyzing, staging or writing a play starting from a single character.
Author : Chay Yew
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802135001
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Porcelain, and written by Chay Yew and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Porcelain is an examination of a young man's crime of passion. Triply scorned - as an Asian, a homosexual, and now a murderer - nineteen-year-old John Lee has confessed to shooting his lover in a public lavatory in London. Porcelain dissects the crime through a prism of conflicting voices: newscasts, flashbacks, and John's recollections to a prison psychiatrist. A Language of Their Own is a lyrical and dramatic meditation on the nature of desire and sexuality as four men - three Asian and one white - come together and drift apart in a series of interconnecting stories.
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 : Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857421685
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (216 download)
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.
Author : Roger Alan Crockett
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570032134
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Understanding Fr written by Roger Alan Crockett and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory volume explores the playwright's chaotic universe, where God has retreated beyond the stars and where blind chance is the real prime mover, justice is corruptible, ideologies useless, and tragedy no longer possible. Yet despite the overriding pessimism of Durrenmatt's Weltanschauung, the author argues that the playwright remains a genial master of comedy. Through the laughter he allows his readers to see that all is not lost, that there are virtues worth fighting for, and that there are still courageous Don Quixotes worthy of the title "hero." Crockett contends that as a theorist of the modern German stage, Durrenmatt challenges Bertolt Brecht and offers alternatives. As a craftsman of prose fiction, he fashions the stout thread with which the readers enter his labyrinths and eventually find their way back out, while his literary Theseuses, clinging to gossamer strands, sometimes fall prey to the monster in the maze.
Author : Marvin A. Carlson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501726889
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Theories of the Theatre written by Marvin A. Carlson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Aristotle and the Greeks and ending with semiotics and post-structuralism, Theories of the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey of Western dramatic theory. In this expanded edition the author has updated the book and added a new concluding chapter that focuses on theoretical developments since 1980, emphasizing the impact of feminist theory.
