Описание: This is a book-length study of the collaboration between Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan, an intense creative relationship that lasted from 1947 to 1960 and embraced among others, the production of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Автор: Brenda Murphy Название: Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan ISBN: 0521035244 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521035248 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6494.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is a book-length study of the collaboration between Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan, an intense creative relationship that lasted from 1947 to 1960 and embraced among others, the production of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Автор: Saddik Название: Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess ISBN: 1107076684 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107076686 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Saddik explores Williams` later plays (1961-82) in the context of what she terms a `theatre of excess`, which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter. Grounding the plays in the carnivalesque, the grotesque, and psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theory, Saddik analyzes recent productions that successfully captured the playwright`s late aesthetic.
Описание: Thomas More is a complex and controversial figure who has been regarded as both saint and persecutor, leading humanist and a representative of late medieval culture. His religious writings, with their stark and at times violent attacks on what More regarded as heresy, have been hotly debated. In Writing Faith and Telling Tales, Thomas Betteridge sets More`s writings in a broad cultural and chronological context, compares them to important works of late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century vernacular theology, and makes a compelling argument for the revision of existing histories of Thomas More and his legacy. Betteridge focuses on four areas of More`s writings: politics, philosophy, theology, and devotion. He examines More`s History of King Richard III as a work of both history and political theory. He discusses Utopia and the ways in which its treatment of reason reflects More`s Christian humanism. By exploring three of More`s lesser known works, The Supplication of Souls, The Confutation, and The Apology, Betteridge demonstrates that More positioned his understanding of heresy within and against a long tradition of English anti-heretical writing, as represented in the works of Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Love. Finally, Betteridge focuses on two key concepts for understanding More`s late devotional works: prayer and the book of Christ. In both cases, Betteridge claims, More seeks to develop a distinctive position that combines late medieval devotionalism with an Augustinian emphasis on the ethics of writing and reading. Writing Faith and Telling Tales poses important questions concerning periodization and confessionalization and will influence future work on the English Reformation and humanist writing in England. "Writing Faith and Telling Tales is an exciting study poised to resituate Thomas More as a late medieval thinker, revealing his as a corpus of work at odds not only with emergent Protestant writing and practices but with the confessional logic of the Reformation in general. Thomas Betteridge delivers a vivid and compelling picture of Thomas More, a picture that will act as a point of departure for future conversations on this interesting and important author. In addition, this study will serve as an influential survey of early Tudor genres and authors." --Russ Leo, Princeton University
Описание: Martín Luis Guzmán was many things throughout his career in twentieth-century Mexico: a soldier in Pancho Villa's revolutionary army, a journalist-in-exile, one of the most esteemed novelists and scholars of the revolutionary era, and an elder statesman and politician. In The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa, we see the famous author as he really was: a careful craftsman of his own image and legacy. His five-volume biography of Villa propelled him to the heights of Mexican cultural life, and thus began his true life's work. Nicholas Cifuentes-Goodbody shapes this study of Guzmán through the lens of ""life writing"" and uncovers a tireless effort by Guzmán to shape his public image.The Man Who Wrote Pancho Villa places Guzmán's work in a biographical context, shedding light on the immediate motivations behind his writing in a given moment and the subsequent ways in which he rewrote or repackaged the material. Despite his efforts to establish a definitive reading of his life and literature, Guzmán was unable to control that interpretation as audiences became less tolerant of the glaring omissions in his self-portrait.
Автор: Clark Название: The Politics of Samuel Johnson ISBN: 0230355994 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230355996 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the `commanding heights` of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive conclusion, retrieving the `historic Johnson.`
Автор: Cavanagh Название: Language and Politics in the Sixteenth-Century History Play ISBN: 1403901325 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403901323 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Language and Politics in the Sixteenth-Century History Play examines a key preoccupation of historical drama in the period 1538-1600: the threat presented by uncivil language. `Unlicensed` speech informs the presentation of political debate in Tudor history plays and it is also the subject of their most daring political speculations.
Автор: Clericuzio Название: Tennessee Williams and Italy ISBN: 3319319264 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319319261 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11878.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book reveals for the first time the import of a huge network of connections between Tennessee Williams and the country closest to his heart, Italy.America's most thought-provoking playwright loved Italy more than any other country outside the US and was deeply influenced by its culture for most of his life. Anna Magnani's film roles in the 1940s, Italian Neo-realist cinema, the theatre of Eduardo De Filippo, as well as the actual experience of Italian life and culture during his long stays in the country were some of the elements shaping his literary output. Through his lover Frank Merlo, he also had first-hand knowledge of Italian-American life in Brooklyn.Tracing the establishment of his reputation with the Italian intelligentsia, as well as with theatre practitioners and with generations of audiences, the book also tells the story of a momentous collaboration in the theatre, between Williams and Luchino Visconti, who had to defy the unceasing control Italian censorship exerted on Williams for decades.
Автор: Saddik Название: Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess ISBN: 1107433908 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107433908 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Saddik explores Williams` later plays (1961-82) in the context of what she terms a `theatre of excess`, which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter. Grounding the plays in the carnivalesque, the grotesque, and psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theory, Saddik analyzes recent productions that successfully captured the playwright`s late aesthetic.
Автор: Hillman Название: Shakespeare, Marlow and the Politics of France ISBN: 0333694546 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333694541 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16769.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Taking a wide ranging inter-textual approach, Richard Hillman sets early modern English play texts against political and cultural discourses concerning France, as these informed contemporary English consciousness.
Автор: Cosgrove Название: Russian Nationalism and the Politics of Soviet Literature ISBN: 0333802039 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333802038 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In his study of a leading Russian literary journal during the last decade of Soviet power, Simon Cosgrove argues that Russian nationalism was an important ideological element in Soviet political life, consisting of two opposing tendencies.
Описание: This book considers why narrative realism in literature is seen as a `full account` of `real life` and the individual self. Unconventionally, Carnell shows that the formal conventions of narrative realism emerged in the seventeenth century in response to an explosion of partisan writings that put into play competing versions of political selfhood.
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