The Play Of The World
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The Play Of The World
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Author : James S. Hans
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
The Play Of The World written by James S. Hans and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Philosophy categories.
A Play For The End Of The World
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Author : Jai Chakrabarti
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2022-09-20
A Play For The End Of The World written by Jai Chakrabarti and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-20 with Fiction categories.
A dazzling novel—set in early 1970's New York and rural India—the story of a turbulent, unlikely romance, a harrowing account of the lasting horrors of World War II, and a searing examination of one man's search for forgiveness and acceptance. “Looks deeply at the echoes and overlaps among art, resistance, love, and history ... an impressive debut.” —Meg Wolitzer, best-selling author of The Female Persuasion New York City, 1972. Jaryk Smith, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and Lucy Gardner, a southerner, newly arrived in the city, are in the first bloom of love when they receive word that Jaryk's oldest friend has died under mysterious circumstances in a rural village in eastern India. Travelling there alone to collect his friend's ashes, Jaryk soon finds himself enmeshed in the chaos of local politics and efforts to stage a play in protest against the government—the same play that he performed as a child in Warsaw as an act of resistance against the Nazis. Torn between the survivor's guilt he has carried for decades and his feelings for Lucy (who, unbeknownst to him, is pregnant with his child), Jaryk must decide how to honor both the past and the present, and how to accept a happiness he is not sure he deserves. An unforgettable love story, a provocative exploration of the role of art in times of political upheaval, and a deeply moving reminder of the power of the past to shape the present, A Play for the End of the World is a remarkable debut from an exciting new voice in fiction.
Play As Symbol Of The World
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Author : Eugen Fink
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-06
Play As Symbol Of The World written by Eugen Fink and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-06 with Philosophy categories.
Eugen Fink is considered one of the clearest interpreters of phenomenology and was the preferred conversational partner of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In Play as Symbol of the World, Fink offers an original phenomenology of play as he attempts to understand the world through the experience of play. He affirms the philosophical significance of play, why it is more than idle amusement, and reflects on the movement from "child's play" to "cosmic play." Well-known for its nontechnical, literary style, this skillful translation by Ian Alexander Moore and Christopher Turner invites engagement with Fink's philosophy of play and related writings on sports, festivals, and ancient cult practices.
The Play World
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Author : Patricia Anne Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2021-03-09
The Play World written by Patricia Anne Simpson and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-09 with History categories.
The Play World chronicles the history and evolution of the concept of play as a universal part of childhood. Examining texts and toys coming out of Europe between 1631 and 1914, Patricia Anne Simpson argues that German material, literary, and pedagogical cultures were central to the construction of the modern ideas and realities of play and childhood in the transatlantic world. With attention to the details of toy manufacturing and marketing, Simpson considers prescriptive texts about how children should play, treat their possessions, and experience adventure in the scientific exploration of distant geographies. She illuminates the role of toys—among them a mechanical guillotine, yo-yos, hybridized dolls, and circus figures—as agents of history. Using an interdisciplinary approach that draws from postcolonial, childhood, and migration studies, she makes the case that these texts and toys transfer the world of play into a space in which model childhoods are imagined and enacted as German. With chapters on the Protestant play ethic, enlightened parenting, Goethe as an advocate of play, colonial fantasies, children’s almanacs, ethnographic play, and an empire of toys, Simpson’s argument follows a compelling path toward understanding the reproduction of religious, gendered, ethnic, racial, national, and imperial identities, emanating from German-speaking Europe, that collectively construct a global imaginary. This foundational and deeply original study connects German-speaking communities across the Atlantic as they collectively engender the epistemology of the play world. It will be of particular interest to German studies scholars whose research crosses the Atlantic.
Wonderland
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Author : Steven Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2016-11-29
Wonderland written by Steven Johnson and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-29 with Amusements categories.
"Everyone knows the old saying "necessity is the mother of invention," but if you do a paternity test on many of the modern world's most important ideas or institutions, you will find, invariably, that leisure and play were involved in the conception as well." Most history books don't concern themselves with delight. History is the serious business of war, treaties, governments and monarchs. This is a different kind of history book. Steven Johnson argues that if you want to understand how we got to now, you have to understand pleasure and play. A staggering amount of the landscape of modern life is populated by environments and technology designed to entertain and delight us. Here history of popular entertainment, arguing that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change. Throughout history, he locates the cutting edge of innovation wherever people are working the hardest to keep themselves and others amused.He introduces us to the colorful innovators of leisure: the explorers, proprietors, showmen, and artists who changed the trajectory of history with their luxurious wares, exotic meals, taverns, gambling tables, and magic shows.
The Greatest Play In The History Of The World
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Author : Ian Kershaw
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-10-05
The Greatest Play In The History Of The World written by Ian Kershaw and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-05 with Performing Arts categories.
What is it that you would want to be preserved for eternity? A man wakes in the middle of the night to discover that the world has stopped. Through the crack in his bedroom curtains he can see no signs of life at all...other than a light in the house opposite where a woman in an oversized Bowie T-shirt stands, looking back at him. The Greatest Play in the History of the World is a beautifully constructed love story, set on Preston Road and also in space and in time. Presented as a monologue for one actor, it asks profound questions with deepest sincerity whilst simultaneously balancing the human quest for meaningful connections. This edition was published to coincide with the play's run at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in summer 2018 starring Julie Hesmondhalgh.
The Way Of The World
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Author : William Congreve
language : en
Publisher: The Floating Press
Release Date : 2009-01-01
The Way Of The World written by William Congreve and has been published by The Floating Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Drama categories.
The Way of the World premiered in England in 1700, and is considered on of the best Restoration comedies written. The play follows two lovers, their quest to marry, and the myriad characters and relationships which stand in their way.
The Way Of The World
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Author : William Congreve
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951
The Way Of The World written by William Congreve and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with categories.
Analytic Philosophy And The World Of The Play
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Author : Michael Y. Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-07-14
Analytic Philosophy And The World Of The Play written by Michael Y. Bennett and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-14 with Performing Arts categories.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Theatre and the mirror of nature -- Part I Exposing the problem and proposing a solution -- 1 Theatrical names and reference: Dialectical-synecdochic objects and "re-creation"--2 The world of the play: Theatre as "re-creation"--Part II Applying the (proposed) solution to the problems -- 3 "Liveness"? The presumption of dramatic and theatrical "liveness" -- 4 Boundedness of (fictional) theatre to our (real) world: Actor and audience -- 5 Identity across "possible worlds": "The world beyond" the play -- Conclusions -- #1 The purpose of playing: Why go to the theatre? -- #2 Where the world of theatre ends: Performance art -- #3 Make-believe -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index
Power Play
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Author : Asi Burak
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2017-01-31
Power Play written by Asi Burak and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-31 with Education categories.
The phenomenal growth of gaming has inspired plenty of hand-wringing since its inception--from the press, politicians, parents, and everyone else concerned with its effect on our brains, bodies, and hearts. But what if games could be good, not only for individuals but for the world? In Power Play, Asi Burak and Laura Parker explore how video games are now pioneering innovative social change around the world. As the former executive director and now chairman of Games for Change, Asi Burak has spent the last ten years supporting and promoting the use of video games for social good, in collaboration with leading organizations like the White House, NASA, World Bank, and The United Nations. The games for change movement has introduced millions of players to meaningful experiences around everything from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the US Constitution. Power Play looks to the future of games as a global movement. Asi Burak and Laura Parker profile the luminaries behind some of the movement's most iconic games, including former Supreme Court judge Sandra Day O’Connor and Pulitzer-Prize winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. They also explore the promise of virtual reality to address social and political issues with unprecedented immersion, and see what the next generation of game makers have in store for the future.