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Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Worksby Alexander Pushkin; James E. Falen; Caryl Emerson
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 8.95James E. Falen's verse translation consists of Boris Godunov, A Scene from Faust, the four Little Tragedies and Rusalka. It is accompanied by a penetrating Introduction by Caryl Emerson on Russia's most cosmopolitan playwright. - ;'The people are silent'. So ends Pushkin's great historical drama Boris Godunov, in which Boris's reign as Tsar witnesses civil strife and intrigue, brutality and misery. Its legacy is an uncertain future for the new Tsar whose inauguration is met with devastating silence by the people. Pushkin's dramatic work displays a scintillating variety of forms, from the historical to the metaphysical and folkloric. After Boris Godunov, they evolved into Pushkin's own unique, condensed transformations... more...
Strindberg on Drama and Theatreby Egil Törnqvist; Birgitta Steene
Amsterdam University Press 2007; US$ 34.95Sweden's August Strindberg (1849-1912) has long been recognised as one of the leading dramatists around the turn of the last century. His electrifying theatre work resonated with the public in his lifetime, and continues to grip playwrights and audien more...
Strindberg and the Five Sensesby Hans-Goran Ekman
Continuum International Publishing 2000; US$ 130.00In this book, Dr Ekman considers Strindberg's four "Chamber plays" of 1907: "Thunder in the Air", "The Burned Site"," The Ghost Sonata" and "The Pelican". more...
August Strindberg: Selected Essaysby August Strindberg; Michael Robinson
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 50.00This is a fully edited translation of a series of essays by the great Swedish dramatist August Strindberg. more...
Miss Julie and Other Playsby Johan August Strindberg; Michael Robinson
OUP Oxford 1998; US$ 9.85The Father; A Dream Play; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata; The Dance of Death `Ibsen can sit serenely in his Doll's House,' Sean O'Casey remarked, `while Strindberg is battling with his heaven and his hell.'Strindberg was one of the most extreme, and ultimately the most influential theatrical innovators of the late nineteenth century. The five plays translated here are those on which Strindberg's international reputation as a dramatist principally rests and this edition embraces his crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two finest achievements as a psychological realist, The Father and Miss Julie, to the three plays in which he redefined the possibilities of European dramafollowing his return to the theatre... more...
The Secret Life of Wallanderby Stafford Hildred
John Blake 2011; US$ 15.95As Nordic Noir takes off, there is one standout character who has been fascinating critics and readers alike for almost 20 yearsthis book traces the evolution of Kurt Wallander and the enormous impact he has had In the two decades since he first appeared in Henning Mankel's novel Faceless Killers, the sad Swedish detective Kurt Wallander has become a worldwide success story. Mankel's compelling books about the idealistic police inspector have sold more than 30 million copies in 43 different languages and inspired more than 25 film adaptations. This book explores how in Europe, readers took instantly to the troubled, lonely cop with his horrendous health problems and catastrophic home life. It also demonstrates... more...
The Man Who Left Too Soonby Barry Forshaw
John Blake 2011; US$ 9.99His best-selling books are violent, terrifying, brilliantly written and have sold millions of copies around the world, but Stieg Larsson was not there to witness any of their international success. That his fame is entirely posthumous demonstrates the dizzying speed with which his star has risen. However, when one looks a little deeper at the man behind these phenomenal novels, it becomes clear that Larsson's life would have been remembered as extraordinary even if his Millennium Trilogy had never been published. Larsson was a workacholic: a keen politcal activist, photographer, graphic desinger, a respected journalist and editor of numerous science fiction magazines...and at night, to relax after work, he wrote thrillers. As the world... more...
The Making of the New Negroby Anna Pochmara
Amsterdam University Press 2011; US$ 39.95The Making of the New Negro examines black masculinity in the period of the New Negro/Harlem Renaissance, which for many decades did not attract a lot of scholarly attention, until, in the 1990s, many scholars discovered how complex, significant, and fascinating it was. Using African American published texts, American archives and unpublished writings, and contemporaneous European discourses, this book focuses both on the canonical figures of the New Negro Movement and African American culture, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, Alain Locke, and Richard Wright, and on writers who have not received as much scholarly attention despite their significance for the movement, such as Wallace Thurman. Its perspective combines gender, sexuality,... more...