Holding A Mirror Up To Nature
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Holding A Mirror Up To Nature
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Author : James Gilligan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-12-02
Holding A Mirror Up To Nature written by James Gilligan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Shakespeare reveals the causes and consequences of violence more profoundly than any social or behavioural scientist has ever done.
Tragedy And Philosophy
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Author : Walter Kaufmann
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1992
Tragedy And Philosophy written by Walter Kaufmann and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Literary Criticism categories.
A critical re-examination of the views of Plato, Aristotle, Hegel and Nietzsche on tragedy. Ancient Greek tragedy is revealed as surprisingly modern and experimental, while such concepts as mimesis, catharsis, hubris and the tragic collision are discussed from different perspectives.
The Spanish American Roots Of William Carlos Williams
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Author : Julio Marz?n
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 1994-01-01
The Spanish American Roots Of William Carlos Williams written by Julio Marz?n and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
As David Ignatow's foreword notes, the time is ripe for a multicultural canonical modernist, and Marzan himself, a poet with Puerto Rican roots, has produced an insightful study of Williams' sometimes hidden, sometimes obvious debt to his Spanish American heritage. At the same time, Marzan raises serious questions about how 'ethnic' literature shapes the modern canon. --American Literature I have been waiting for some time for a study of Williams's Latin American roots, and this book fills that bill. . . . It's a significant addition to the Williams canon. --Paul Mariani, author of William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked William Carlos Williams wrote from an all-encompassing American vision that recalls the spirit of Walt Whitman. Paradoxically, though, this most-American poet sprang from foreign roots--a Puerto Rican mother and a father who was an English-born Caribbean islander. In this poetically evocative work, Julio Marzan explores the Latin American roots of Williams' poetry. In particular, he focuses on the dualities and contradictions between Williams' public, North American persona, Bill, and his private, poetically encrypted Latin persona, Carlos. He shows how Williams' poetry draws on Latin American and Spanish sources, particularly the poetry of Spaniard Luis de Gongora, to encode a Latin subtext in poems that ostensibly present a mainstream, Anglo vision. These explorations uncover a wealth of complexity in Williams and his poetry. Reflecting the experience of many immigrants, his life and work embody the unreconcilable desires to assimilate and win acceptance in a new land while remaining separate and immersed in the beloved culture of one'sbirth. A published poet, Julio Marzan is also editor of Inventing a Word: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Puerto Rican Poetry.
The Mirror Up To Nature
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Author : Virgil Keeble Whitaker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
The Mirror Up To Nature written by Virgil Keeble Whitaker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Literary Criticism categories.
Philosophy And Literature In Times Of Crisis
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Author : Michael Mack
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2014-02-27
Philosophy And Literature In Times Of Crisis written by Michael Mack and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Highlighting literature and philosophy's potential impact on economics, health care, bioethics, public policy and theology, this book analyses the heuristic value of fiction. It alerts us to how we risk succumbing to the deceptions of fiction in our everyday lives, because fictional representations constantly feign to be of the real and claim a reality of their own. Philosophy and literature disclose how the substantive sphere of social, economic and medical practice is sometimes driven and shaped by the affect-ridden and subjective. Analysing a wide range of literature-from Augustine, Shakespeare, Spinoza and Deleuze to Kafka, Sylvia Plath, Philip Roth, W. G. Sebald and Jonathan Littell-Michael Mack rethinks ethical attitudes towards the long or eternal life. In so doing he shows how philosophy and literature turn representation against itself to expose the hollowness of theologically grand concepts that govern our secular approach towards ethics, economics and medicine. Philosophy and literature help us resist our current infatuation with numbers and the numerical and contribute towards a future politics that is at once singular and diverse.
The Theory Of The Theatre And Other Principles Of Dramatic Criticism
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Author : Clayton Meeker Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-11-29
The Theory Of The Theatre And Other Principles Of Dramatic Criticism written by Clayton Meeker Hamilton and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-29 with History categories.
This is a collection of essays that explores the principles of dramatic criticism and the theory of theater. The book covers topics such as the psychology of theater audiences, stage conventions in modern times, emphasis on drama, the four leading types of drama, and modern social drama. In this book, the author also discusses the role of the dramatist, the business of theater, the boundaries of approbation, the effect of plays on the public, and the function of imagination in the theater. The book also provides insight into theater, drama, and the art of storytelling.
The Merchant Of Venice
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Author : Christopher McCullough
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2005-08-03
The Merchant Of Venice written by Christopher McCullough and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume, while it raises all the questions appertaining to the cultural, historical and critical contexts of the play, has as its primary focus the play as theatrical performance. This focus is not taken in isolation, but observed in terms of all the social, material and practical aspects of theatrical production. The questions raised are those that face actors, stage managers and directors, scenic and costume designers, in the rehearsal room and on the stage.
Playlets
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Author : George Bernard Shaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Playlets written by George Bernard Shaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
'These highbrows must remember that there is a demand for little things as well as for big things'George Bernard Shaw was one of the leading playwrights and public intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He helped propel drama towards the unexpected, into a realm where it might shock audiences into new viewpoints and into fresh understandings of society. Throughout his longwriting career Shaw wrote short plays, ranging in length from 1000-word puppet play, Shakes Versus Shav, to the 12,000-word suffragette comedy, Press Cuttings. These plays can be taken to illuminate Shaw's life and legacy, from ideas about war and patriotism in O'Flaherty, V.C. to censorship in TheShewing up of Blanco Posset.Surveying Shaw's entire career of writing short dramas, focusing especially on those years when his work in the form was particularly prolific (around 1909 and during the First World War), this collection places Shaw's short plays broadly into four key areas: farces, historical sketches, war dramas,and Shakespearean shorts. For each of these areas, the volume explores Shaw's aesthetic and thematic concerns, the precise historical and generic contexts in which the works were written, the major criticism and scholarship that has subsequently emerged, and the most notable stage and screenproductions. This collection reveals how a playwright often criticized for being too wordy was actually a master of the short form.
Performing Gods In Classical Antiquity And The Age Of Shakespeare
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Author : Dustin W. Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-05-20
Performing Gods In Classical Antiquity And The Age Of Shakespeare written by Dustin W. Dixon and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
The gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies reveal not only the complexities of mortals playing gods but also the nature of theatrical spectacle itself. The very impossibility of rendering the gods in all their divine splendor in a truly convincing way lies at the intersection of divine power and the power of the theater. This book pursues these dynamics on the stages of ancient Athens and Rome as well on those of Renaissance England to shed new light on theatrical performance. The authors reveal how gods appear onstage both to astound and to dramatize the very machinations by which theatrical performance operates. Offering an array of case studies featuring both canonical and lesser-studied texts, this volume discusses work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Plautus as well as Beaumont, Heywood, Jonson, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. This book uniquely brings together the joint perspectives of two experts on classical and Renaissance drama. This volume will appeal to students and enthusiasts of literature, classics, theater, and performance studies.
The Western Canon
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Author : Harold Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2014-06-17
The Western Canon written by Harold Bloom and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller. NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list—it is a “heroically brave, formidably learned” defense of the great works of literature that comprise the traditional Western Canon. Infused with a love of learning, compelling in its arguments for a unifying written culture, it argues brilliantly against the politicization of literature and presents a guide to the essential writers of the western literary tradition (The New York Times Book Review). Placing William Shakespeare at the “center of the canon,” Bloom examines the literary contributions of Dante Alighieri, John Milton, Jane Austen, Emily Dickenson, Leo Tolstoy, Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Pablo Neruda, and many others. Bloom's book, much-discussed and praised in publications as diverse as The Economist and Entertainment Weekly, offers a dazzling display of erudition and passion. “An impressive work…deeply, rightly passionate about the great books of the past.”—Michel Dirda, The Washington Post Book World