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Teaching Creative Writing: Practical Approaches
The Professional and Higher Partnership Ltd 2012; US$ 90.00Teaching Creative Writing is designed to showcase practical approaches developed by practitioners in the ever-growing community of writers in higher education. Aimed at enabling those who teach the subject to review, borrow, and adapt ideas, the emphasis throughout is on diversity. Contributions from an international team of writers cover a variety... more...
A Short History of Writing Instruction
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95Short enough to be synoptic, yet long enough to be usefully detailed, A Short History of Writing Instruction is the ideal text for undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in rhetoric and composition. It preserves the legacy of writing instruction from antiquity to contemporary times with a unique focus on the material, educational, and institutional... more...
Re-visioning myth
Manchester University Press 2011; US$ 95.00The first in-depth assessment of re-vision as a phenomenon in womens drama, examining the diverse ways in which classical myth narratives have been reworked by women playwrights for the European stage. This study explores the ideological and aesthetic potential of such practice and silmultaneously exposes the tensions inherent in... more...
Greek Drama and the Invention of Rhetoric
Wiley 2012; US$ 99.95Asserts a novel and controversial theory on the origins of rhetoric that differs radically from the standard view Argues that it was the theatre of Ancient Greece, first appearing around 500 BC, that prompted the development of formalized rhetoric, which evolved soon thereafter Provides a cogent reworking of existing evidence Reveals the bias... more...
NOT IN FRONT OF THE AUDIENCE
Taylor and Francis 1992; US$ 35.95A pioneering study of the theatre's treatment of homosexuals and homosexuality from the 1920s to the present day. Only in the 60s did theatres confront heterosexual prejudice and in the wake of AIDS, the issue is once again highly charged. more...
The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 400.00This volume featrues over 250,000 words and more than 125 photographs identifying and defining theatre in more than 30 countries from India to Uzbekistan, from Thailand to New Zealand and featuring extensive documentation on contemporary Chinese, Japanese, Indian and Australian theatre. more...
Rhetoric
Wiley 2008; US$ 109.95This introduction to the art of rhetoric analyzes rhetorical concepts, problems, and methods and teaches practical inquiry through a series of classic rhetorical texts. An introduction to the art of rhetoric for those who are unacquainted with it and an argument about invention and tradition suitable for specialists Texts range from Cicero's... more...
Theater im Aufbruch
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 112.00In the transition to the Early Modern Age, drama forms the dominant genre. With its speed of production and its position between the written and the oral, between the urban ?entertainment industry? and courtly representation, drama is the text type best suited to dealing with the social, religious and political tensions of the age. This collected volume... more...
The Vital Lie
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 37.50The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover... more...
The Drama of Ideas
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 21.99Most philosophy makes little mention of the theater except to denounce it as a place of illusion and moral decay. The theater has tended to respond in kind by steering away from philosophy, driven by the notion that theater consists of actions, not ideas. The Drama of Ideas argues that despite this mutual evasion, the histories of philosophy and theater... more...









