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The Perfect Spectator

Author : Janneke Wesseling
Publisher : Valiz/Vis-A-VIS
ISBN 13 : 9789080818507
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Spectator written by Janneke Wesseling and published by Valiz/Vis-A-VIS. This book was released on 2017 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens between a spectator and an art work? How do we experience 'meaning' in an art work? How can the process of interpretation be understood and articulated? To address these questions, the author explores the field of reception aesthetics, with its central premise that the contemplation of art is a matter of interaction between the art work and the observer. The research is focused on unravelling and problematising the theoretical terminology of the interaction between art work and spectator, deriving from reception aesthetics as well as from hermeneutics and phenomenology, with the aim of building a new theoretical foundation for this terminology. Additionally, different concepts of spectatorship are extensively discussed. 'I believe it is more productive to research how the art work works or signifies than what it shows or might signify. This 'how' reveals itself mainly in the performative act of experiencing the work.' This book addresses scholars and students in the fields of art history, aesthetics and visual and cultural studies, as well as artists and art students, and all those art spectators who wish to develop a deeper understanding of the experience of art.

The Spectator Bird

Author : Wallace Stegner
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141392339
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book The Spectator Bird written by Wallace Stegner and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary agent Joe Allston, the central character of Stegner's novel All the Little Live Things, is now retired and, in his own words, 'just killing time until time gets around to killing me.' His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties. His job, trafficking the talent of others, had not been his choice. He passes through life as a spectator. A postcard from an old friend causes Allston to return to the journals of a trip he and his wife had taken years before, a journey to his mother's birthplace, where he'd sought a link with the past. The memories of that trip, both grotesque and poignant, move through layers of time and meaning, and reveal that Joe Allston isn't quite spectator enough. Wallace Stegner was the author of, among other works of fiction, Remembering Laughter (1973); The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943); Joe Hill (1950); All the Little Live Things (1967, Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); A Shooting Star (1961); Angle of Repose (1971, Pulitzer Prize); Recapitulation (1979); Crossing to Safety (1987); and Collected Stories (1990). His nonfiction includes Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (1954); Wolf Willow (1963); The Sound of Mountain Water (essays, 1969); The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard deVoto (1964); American Places (with Page Stegner, 1981); and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992). Three short stories have won O.Henry prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements.

The Spectators

Author : Jennifer DuBois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0812995880
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Spectators written by Jennifer DuBois and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talk show host Matthew Miller has made his fame by shining a spotlight on the most unlikely and bizarre secrets of society, exposing them on live television in front of millions of gawking viewers. However, the man behind The Mattie M Show remains a mystery--both to his enormous audience and to those who work alongside him every day. But when the high school students responsible for a mass shooting are found to be devoted fans, Mattie is thrust into the glare of public scrutiny, seen as the wry, detached herald of a culture going downhill and going way too far. Soon, the secrets of Mattie's past as a brilliant young politician in a crime-ridden New York City begin to push their way to the surface. In her most daring and multidimensional novel yet, Jennifer duBois vividly portrays the heyday of gay liberation in the seventies and the grip of the AIDS crisis in the eighties, alongside a backstage view of nineties television in an age of moral panic. DuBois explores an enigmatic man's downfall through the perspectives of two spectators--Cel, Mattie's skeptical publicist, and Semi, the disillusioned lover from his past. With wit, heart, and crackling intelligence, The Spectators examines the human capacity for reinvention--and forces us to ask ourselves what we choose to look at, and why.

Good Day Today

Author : Daniel Neofetou
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780997663
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Good Day Today written by Daniel Neofetou and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his speech following the 2011nationwide riots in Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron spoke out against people “being too unwilling for too long to talk about what is right and what is wrong” and proclaimed “this relativism – it’s not going to cut it anymore”. He was, then, presumably laying the foundation for one-size-fits-all absolutist authoritarianism and, worryingly, the moral outrage induced by the riots means a large proportion of the British public might not oppose such measures. When such a mindset is on the verge of becoming pandemic, where do we turn? This book suggests that the work of another David, born 20 years before and 3,000 miles away from Cameron, might engender a mode of thinking which does not apprehend the world in terms of such easy distinctions. In David Lynch, we find a director whose films – by utilising the tropes of the Hollywood movie, but subverting their accepted meanings - profoundly destablise spectators, and lead them to consider things not in terms of prescribed binaries, but as complex and multi-faceted. ,

Ice Hockey Made Simple

Author : P. J. Harari
Publisher : First Base Sports, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781884309113
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ice Hockey Made Simple written by P. J. Harari and published by First Base Sports, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This easy-to-read guide, filled with illustrations and action photographs, contains everything for the fan and non-fan alike to understand and enjoy the sport of ice hockey. Each section stands alone, so it can be used as a handy reference guide, and it is so lightweight it can easily be taken to games. The book includes:- The Rules of Hockey Simplified - The Most Recent NHL Changes - What to Look For During Play - Statistics Explained - League and Playoff Formats - Stars of the Past and Present - Awards and Records- A Complete Glossary. The National Hockey League expansion of the last decade and the increased television coverage exposed millions of new fans to hockey. The Stanley Cup is now seen in over 170 countries, while annual sales of NHL merchandise today exceed $1 billion. Yet hockey remains one of the least understood sports. With the help of this guide, you can learn to follow the excitement of America's fastest-paced sport in no time at all.

Passionate Spectator

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

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Download or read book Passionate Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport

Author : Arthur Blaustein
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616080620
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport by : Arthur Blaustein

Download or read book Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport written by Arthur Blaustein and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blueprint and a guidebook to help us all get involved.Senator John...

The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator [no. 162-483

Author : Joseph Addison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator [no. 162-483 written by Joseph Addison and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nasty Bits

Author : Anthony Bourdain
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596917210
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book The Nasty Bits written by Anthony Bourdain and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller The good, the bad, and the ugly, served up Bourdain-style. Bestselling chef and Parts Unknown host Anthony Bourdain has never been one to pull punches. In The Nasty Bits, he serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures. Whether scrounging for eel in the backstreets of Hanoi, revealing what you didn't want to know about the more unglamorous aspects of making television, calling for the head of raw food activist Woody Harrelson, or confessing to lobster-killing guilt, Bourdain is as entertaining as ever. Bringing together the best of his previously uncollected nonfiction--and including new, never-before-published material--The Nasty Bits is a rude, funny, brutal and passionate stew for fans and the uninitiated alike.

The Spectator

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

Success Is Not a Spectator Sport

Author : Charles M. Marcus
Publisher : [Carp, Ont.] : Creative Bound International
ISBN 13 : 9781894439145
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Success Is Not a Spectator Sport written by Charles M. Marcus and published by [Carp, Ont.] : Creative Bound International. This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready to get in the game? We choose to be successful in business and in life the moment we decide not to settle for mediocrity -- the moment we are prepared to step out of our comfort zone and take action. In this life-changing book, international keynote speaker Charles Marcus shares with you his incredible personal and professional experiences. His hard-won lessons have contributed to his remarkable transformation from a person with a severe stuttering disability for most of his life, to an award-winning sales professional. This book will help you create the game plan, shape the strategies, and find the discipline to complete the plays necessary for success. Discover how to: Treat every setback as a valuable learning experience; Surround yourself with positive people; Set goals that work; Invest in your professional development; Believe in your own success; Cross the finish line on your own terms; Be prepared to accept all challenges and pursue the success you desire!

The Spectator

Author : Joseph Addison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Spectator written by Joseph Addison and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Feminist Spectator as Critic

Author : Jill Dolan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472081608
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book The Feminist Spectator as Critic written by Jill Dolan and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extends the feminist analysis of representation to the realm of performance

Inventing the Spectator

Author : Joseph Harris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191005142
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Inventing the Spectator written by Joseph Harris and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, France became famous — notorious even — across Europe for its ambitious attempts to codify and theorise a system of universally valid dramatic 'rules'. So fundamental and formative was this 'classical' conception of drama that it still underpins our modern conception of theatre today. Yet rather than rehearsing familiar arguments about plays, Inventing the Spectator reads early modern France's dramatic theory against the grain, tracing instead the profile and characteristics of the spectator that these arguments imply: the living, breathing individual in whose mind, senses, and experience the theatre comes to life. In so doing, Joseph Harris raises numerous questions — of imagination and illusion, reason and emotion, vision and aurality, to name but a few — that strike at the very heart of human psychology, cognition, and experience. Bridging the gap between literary and theatre studies, history of psychology, and intellectual history, Inventing the Spectator thus reconstructs the theatre spectator's experience as it was understood and theorised within French dramatic theory between the Renaissance and the Revolution. It explores early modern spectatorship through three main themes (illusion and the senses; pleasure and narrative; interest and identification) and five key dramatic theoreticians (d'Aubignac, Corneille, Dubos, Rousseau, and Diderot). As it demonstrates, the period's dramatic rules are at heart rules of psychology, cognition, and affect that emerged out of a complex dialogue with human subjectivity in all its richness.

The Cinema Ideal

Author : Harriet E. Margolis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317928725
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Cinema Ideal written by Harriet E. Margolis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the model derived from Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, via Marxism and semiotics, of looking at film. It retraces the steps of film theory from ideological criticism of the late ‘60s to spectator studies in 1988 when the book was originally published. Psychoanalysis enables a discussion of the cinema’s role as a social and political force and this book enters a discourse of the politics of representation. Reconstructing discussion of basic issues, the book addresses our instincts and defences in reacting to cinema, the similarity between mental processes and cinematic technique, narrative techniques and the ‘cinematic apparatus’. Importantly, the book concerns itself with the concept of ideology and how the filmviewing experience engages the spectator in a complex net of stimuli presenting representations of an ideal world and the effect of this within film studies.

The spectator. 8

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The spectator. 8 written by and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oswald's Tale

Author : Norman Mailer
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 158836593X
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Oswald's Tale written by Norman Mailer and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-01-23 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In perhaps his most important literary feat, Norman Mailer fashions an unprecedented portrait of one of the great villains—and enigmas—in United States history. Here is Lee Harvey Oswald—his family background, troubled marriage, controversial journey to Russia, and return to an “America [waiting] for him like an angry relative whose eyes glare in the heat.” Based on KGB and FBI transcripts, government reports, letters and diaries, and Mailer’s own international research, this is an epic account of a man whose cunning, duplicity, and self-invention were both at home in and at odds with the country he forever altered. Praise for Oswald’s Tale “America’s largest mystery has found its greatest interpreter.”—The Washington Post Book World “Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance. . . . From the American master conjurer of dark and swirling purpose, a moving reflection.”—Robert Stone, The New York Review of Books “A narrative of tremendous energy and panache; the author at the top of his form.”—Christopher Hitchens, Financial Times “The performance of an author relishing the force and reach of his own acuity.”—Martin Amis, The Sunday Times (London) Praise for Norman Mailer “[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.”—The New York Times “A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.”—The New Yorker “Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.”—The Washington Post “A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.”—Life “Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.”—The New York Review of Books “The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.”—Chicago Tribune “Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.”—The Cincinnati Post