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Apuleius and Drama
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 154.99An exploration of the use of drama as an intertext in the work of the 2nd century Latin author Apuleius, who wrote the only complete extant Latin novel, the Metamorphoses, in which a young man is turned into a donkey by magic. All Latin and Greek is translated into English. - ;Regine May discusses the use of drama as an intertext in the work of the... more...
The Playwright as Thinker
University of Minnesota Press 2010; US$ 20.00First published in 1946, The Playwright as Thinker is a classic work of drama criticism that helped create the intellectual environment in which serious American theater would thrive in the second half of the twentieth century. At the time of publishing, most drama critics believed dramatic art deserved no intellectual status; Eric Bentley set out... more...
Vergessen, was Eltern sind
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2012; US$ 43.03Hauptbeschreibung Diese Studie setzt sich kritisch mit dem Phänomen der sogenannten Väterliteratur auseinander. Aus den durchaus erfolgreichen autobiographischen »Väter-Büchern«, die zumeist in den Siebzigerjahren des 20. Jahrhunderts erschienen sind, lesen viele Literaturwissenschaftler »Kritik am Vater als dem symbolischen Vertreter der Macht und... more...
Vamos a contar mentiras: Enseñar a un sinvergüenza
Edhasa 1753; US$ 6.13Rosana es una joven de 30 años, hija tirana y solterona represiva encerrada en sus clases, sus libros y sus manías. Un día llega a su casa un nuevo alumno, recomendado por un afamado doctor conocido suyo. Este chico es un chulo, un jugador de poker, un ?viva la vida?, pero poco a poco Rosana se va enamorando de él? y cambia su manera de ser a la vez... more...
Avant Garde Theatre
Taylor and Francis 1993; US$ 49.95Examining the development of avant garde theatre from its inception in the 1890s right up to the present day, Christopher Innes exposes a central paradox of modern theatre; that the motivating force of theatrical experimentation is primitivism. What links the work of Strindberg, Artaud, Brook and Mnouchkine is an idealisation of the elemental and a... more...
Verbal Violence in Contemporary Drama
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 46.00This book considers a spectrum of post-war plays in which characters are created, coerced and destroyed by language. more...
The Theatre of Medieval Europe
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 38.00Brings together the work of thirteen internationally recognized scholars of early drama to give a comprehensive account of recent findings in the field. more...
Modern Rhetoric in Culture, Arts, and Media
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00In the 13 essays of this volume, Tübingen professor of Rhetoric Joachim Knape develops a series of approaches to a modern theory of rhetoric. In doing so, rhetoric is considered both a cultural and a communicative phenomenon. While classical rhetoric concentrated on the communicative fields of politics and law, modern research in rhetoric has expanded... more...
Surrealism
Parkstone International 2012; US$ 9.95Surrealists appeared in the aftermath of World War I with a bang: revolution of thought, creativity, and the wish to break away from the past and all that was left in ruins.This refusal to integrate into the bourgeois society was also a leitmotiv of Dada artists, and André Breton asserted that Dada does not produce perspective. Surrealism emerged amidst... more...
Populäre rhetorische Ratgeber
De Gruyter 1991; US$ 126.00Popul Re Rhetorische Ratgeber: Historisch-Systematische Untersuchungen. more...









