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Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 39.95What does it mean to "fail" in performance? How might staging failure reveal theatre?s potential to expand our understanding of social, political and everyday reality? What can we learn from performances that expose and then celebrate their ability to fail? In Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure , Sara Jane Bailes begins with Samuel... more...
The First Five Pages
Touchstone 2010; US$ 14.99IF YOU'RE TIRED OF REJECTION, THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU. Whether you are a novice writer or a veteran who has already had your work published, rejection is often a frustrating reality. Literary agents and editors receive and reject hundreds of manuscripts each month. While it's the job of these publishing professionals to be discriminating, it's... more...
How Ficta Follow Fiction
Springer 2006; US$ 149.99Presents a theory of fictional entities which is syncretistic insofar as it integrates the work of previous authors. This work puts forward a metaphysical conception of the nature of these entities, according to which a fictional entity is a compound entity built up from both a make-believe theoretical element and a set theoretical element. more...
Murder by Accident
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 36.00Over fifty years ago, it became unfashionable—even forbidden—for students of literature to talk about an author’s intentions for a given work. In Murder by Accident , Jody Enders boldly resurrects the long-disgraced concept of intentionality, especially as it relates to the theater. Drawing on four fascinating medieval events... more...
Festivalising
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 93.80Throughout the world festivals are growing in numbers, in size, in significance and serve as spaces where aesthetic encounters, religious and political celebrations, economic investments and public entertainment can take place. In this sense, festivals are theatrical events.This volume contains discussions of 14 diverse festival events... more...
Description in Literature and Other Media
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 98.00In contrast to narrative, description is a much less researched phenomenon, and where it so far has found attention at all, scholars have almost always discussed it with fiction in mind. The all but exclusive concentration on literature has hitherto obscured the fact that description transcends literature and indeed the verbal media in general and... more...
Tweede levens
Amsterdam University Press 2010; US$ 52.90In Tweede levens belichten zeventien auteurs, voornamelijk historici en letterkundigen, verschillende aspecten van de veelvormige relatie tussen persoon en personage. Een gevarieerd gezelschap van personen uit alle eeuwen en windstreken komen aan bod: kunstenaars als Vergilius, Van Gogh en Ravel; politici als Roosevelt, Stalin en Sarkozy. Ook een enkele... more...
Liminal Acts
Continuum International Publishing 1999; US$ 120.00The term liminal refers to a marginalized space of fertile chaos and creative potential where nothing is fixed or certain. Liminal performance is an emerging genre which has surfaced only in recent times and describes a range of interdisciplinary, highly experimental, performative works in theatre and performance, film and music-performances which... more...








