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Lovesickby Laurence Senelick
Routledge 1998; US$ 41.95An international collection of plays from Britain, the US, Germany, France and Russia, providing an essential resource. Includes 6 plays, each with individual introductions, including an author biography and production history. more...
Alisa, Aliceby Dragica Potocnjak
Intellect 2003; US$ 10.00Alisa, Alice' is a humanely cruel and deeply moving drama, full of passion and desire. The clash of two cultures ? two worlds ? is described with psychological accuracy and depth. Alisa, a young Muslim refugee scarred by the Balkan war finds shelter with Magda, a representative of the common so-called civilised but self-destructive and self-loving western world. Magda, through the sadism arising from her despair and loss of purpose, her psychological confusion, causes the suicide of Alisa. Their relationship permeated as much with love as with hatred, is decanted through the dictatorship of language into a miraculous, irrational and mysterious atmosphere. In places, the style of the play is reminiscent of Pinter?s comedy of menace. The realistically... more...
Kiss Offby Elizabeth Ash Vélez Bestselling authors of The Hell With Love; Mary D. Esselman
Grand Central Publishing 2008; US$ 9.99The editors of "The Hell with Love" are back, applying their irreverent view of life and love to help melt the hardest heart. For anyone who's been let down by life and love, these poems reveal that the most important person one can fall in love with is oneself. more...
Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approachesby Tony Kushner
Theatre Communications Group 2003; US$ 12.95Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in the 1980s. "A vast, miraculous play.... provocative, witty and deeply upsetting.... a searching and radical rethinking of American political drama."--Frank Rich, The New York Times Daring and dazzling! The most ambitious American play of our time."--Jack Kroll, Newsweek more...
Heine und die Nachwelt Geschichte seiner Wirkung in den deutschsprachigen Ländernby Dietmar Goltschnigg; Hartmut Steinecke
Erich Schmidt Verlag 2011; US$ 84.72Hauptbeschreibung Die Wirkungsgeschichte Heines in den deutschsprachigen Ländern war von Beginn an von großen Spannungen und extremen Urteilen geprägt. Diese Entwicklung reicht über das Ende der Monarchien 1918 hinaus. Neben der traditionellen nationalistischen und antisemitischen Polemik spielt seit der Jahrhundertwende die von Karl Kraus wortmächtig vorgetragene ästhetische Kritik eine zunehmende Rolle. In der nationalsozialistischen Zeit spaltet sich der Umgang mit Heine: Im Dritten Reich wird versucht, Dichter und Werk aus dem kulturellen Gedächtnis der Deutschen auszutilgen, im Exil wird er für viele zur Identifikationsfigur, gerühmt als Freiheitssänger und politischer Prophet. In der Nachkriegszeit kommt es bald abermals zu einer tiefen... more...
Romantic Dramaby Gerald Gillespie
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1993; US$ 270.00In Romantic Drama , three dozen comparatists join forces for a supranational, crosscultural reexamination of the deep paradigm shifts appearing around the start of the nineteenth century which revolutionized drama as a literary art within the enormous civilization constituted by Europe and her overseas extensions. Romantic pronouncements on the canon and poetics of drama, the symptomatic subject-matters treated by Romantic playwrights, the structural means by which they expressed their view of the world, and regional peculiarities are illuminated from multiple perspectives. The volume aspires to skirt the pitfalls of simplistic genetic or teleological thinking. It does not treat Romanticism as a limited ?period? dominated by some construed... more...
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