The Maids And Deathwatch Two Plays By Jean Genet
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The Maids And Deathwatch Two Plays By Jean Genet
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Author : Jean Genet
language : en
Publisher: Paw Prints
Release Date : 2008-10
The Maids And Deathwatch Two Plays By Jean Genet written by Jean Genet and has been published by Paw Prints this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10 with categories.
The Maids And Deathwatch
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Author : Jean Genet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
The Maids And Deathwatch written by Jean Genet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with Drama categories.
In The maids, two maids alternate between loving and hating their tyrannical mistress. Finally, they decide it's all too much and plan to kill her. Death watch is about inmates in a women's prison.
Plays 1
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Author : Jean Genet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004-04
Plays 1 written by Jean Genet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04 with categories.
The Maids
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Author : Jean Genet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
The Maids written by Jean Genet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with categories.
The Rites Of Passage Of Jean Genet
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Author : Gene A. Plunka
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 1992
The Rites Of Passage Of Jean Genet written by Gene A. Plunka and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Literary Criticism categories.
"In this book, Gene A. Plunka argues that the most important single element that solidifies all of Genet's work is the concept of metamorphosis. Genet's plays and prose demonstrate the transition from game playing to the establishment of one's identity through a state of risk taking that develops from solitude. However, risk taking per se is not as important as the rite of passage. Anthropologist Victor Turner's work in ethnography is used as a focal point for the examination of rites of passage in Genet's dramas." "Rejecting society, Genet has allied himself with peripheral groups, marginal men, and outcasts--scapegoats who lack power in society. Much of their effort is spent in revolt or direct opposition in mainstream society that sees them as objects to be abused. As an outcast or marginal man, Genet solved his problem of identity through artistic creation and metamorphosis. Likewise, Genet's protagonists are outcasts searching for positive value in a society over which they have no control; they always appear to be the victims or scapegoats. As outcasts, Genet's protagonists establish their identities by first willing their actions and being proud to do so." "Unfortunately, man's sense of Being is constantly undermined by society and the way individuals react to roles, norms, and values. Roles are the products of carefully defined and codified years of positively sanctioned institutional behavior. According to Genet, role playing limits individual freedom, stifles creativity, and impedes differentiation. Genet equates role playing with stagnant bourgeois society that imitates rather than invents; the latter is a word Genet often uses to urge his protagonists into a state of productive metamorphosis. Imitation versus invention is the underlying dialectic between bourgeois society and outcasts that is omnipresent in virtually all of Genet's works." "Faced with rejection, poverty, oppression, and degradation, Genet's outcasts often escape their horrible predicaments by living in a world of illusion that consists of ceremony, game playing, narcissism, sexual and secret rites, or political charades. Like children, Genet's ostracized individuals play games to imitate a world that they can not enter. Essentially, the play acting becomes catharsis for an oppressed group that is otherwise confined to the lower stratum of society." "Role players and outcasts who try to find an identity through cathartic game playing never realize their potential in Genet's world. Instead, Genet is interested in outcasts who immerse themselves in solitude and create their own sense of dignity free from external control. Most important, these isolated individuals may initially play games, yet they ultimately experience metamorphosis from a world of rites, charades, and rituals to a type of "sainthood" where dignity and nobility reign. The apotheosis is achieved through a distinct act of conscious revolt designed to condemn the risk taker to a degraded life of solitude totally distinct from society's norms and values." --Book Jacket.
Maids
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Author : Jean Genet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Maids written by Jean Genet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with French drama categories.
The Maids (Les Bonnes, here translated by Bernard Frechtman) is Jean Genet's most oft-revived work for the stage. First performed in Paris in 1947, its action was inspired by a real-life scandal, the murder by two maids, sisters Christine and Léa Papin, of their mistress and her daughter. Genet's maids - Solange and Claire - occupy themselves, whenever their Madame is out of doors, by acting out ritualised fantasies of revenging their downtrodden status. But when the game goes beyond their control the maids are compelled to try to make their fantasy a reality. 'The most extraordinary example of the whirligigs of being and appearance, of the imaginary and the real, is to be found in [Genet's] The Maids. It is the element of fake, of sham, of artificiality, that attracts Genet in the theatre.' Jean-Paul Sartre
Deathwatch
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Author : Jean Genet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Deathwatch written by Jean Genet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with French drama categories.
"Deathwatch," Jean Genet's earliest, shortest and most formally straightforward play, was first performed in Paris in 1949. It retains an intense power and makes an excellent introduction to his later dramas - "The Maids," "The Balcony," "The Blacks," "The Screens." The French text of "Deathwatch," published by Gallimard, was extensively altered by Genet during rehearsal; and Bernard Frechtman's translation is of the final 'performance' version, which supersedes the original published text. Three convicts share a cramped prison cell. There is no question as to which of them is the dominant dog in the pack: Green Eyes (Yeux-Verts) has brutally murdered a woman and is to be executed. Lefranc and the younger novice-like Maurice are inside for less grave crimes. But both of them covet Green Eyes' attention, baiting each other in the process, a duel that drives inexorably toward violence.
A Cultural History Of Causality
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Author : Stephen Kern
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2009-01-10
A Cultural History Of Causality written by Stephen Kern 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 2009-01-10 with History categories.
This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels including Crime and Punishment, An American Tragedy, The Trial, and Lolita, Stephen Kern devotes each chapter of A Cultural History of Causality to examining a specific causal factor or motive for murder--ancestry, childhood, language, sexuality, emotion, mind, society, and ideology. In addition to drawing on particular novels, each chapter considers the sciences (genetics, endocrinology, physiology, neuroscience) and systems of thought (psychoanalysis, linguistics, sociology, forensic psychiatry, and existential philosophy) most germane to each causal factor or motive. Kern identifies five shifts in thinking about causality, shifts toward increasing specificity, multiplicity, complexity, probability, and uncertainty. He argues that the more researchers learned about the causes of human behavior, the more they realized how much more there was to know and how little they knew about what they thought they knew. The book closes by considering the revolutionary impact of quantum theory, which, though it influenced novelists only marginally, shattered the model of causal understanding that had dominated Western thought since the seventeenth century. Others have addressed changing ideas about causality in specific areas, but no one has tackled a broad cultural history of this concept as does Stephen Kern in this engagingly written and lucidly argued book.
Ends And Odds
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Author : Samuel Beckett
language : en
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Release Date : 2007-12-01
Ends And Odds written by Samuel Beckett and has been published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Drama categories.
Ends and Odds brings together nine short dramatic works by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for Godot.
The Cambridge Introduction To Theatre And Literature Of The Absurd
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Author : Michael Y. Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-29
The Cambridge Introduction To Theatre And Literature Of The Absurd written by Michael Y. Bennett 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 2015-10-29 with Drama categories.
Michael Y. Bennett's accessible Introduction explains the complex, multidimensional nature of the works and writers associated with the absurd - a label placed upon a number of writers who revolted against traditional theatre and literature in both similar and widely different ways. Setting the movement in its historical, intellectual and cultural contexts, Bennett provides an in-depth overview of absurdism and its key figures in theatre and literature, from Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to Tom Stoppard. Chapters reveal the movement's origins, development and present-day influence upon popular culture around the world, employing the latest research to this often challenging area of study in a balanced and authoritative approach. Essential reading for students of literature and theatre, this book provides the necessary tools to interpret and develop the study of a movement associated with some of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential cultural figures.