Pinter Problem

Pinter Problem
Author: Austin E. Quigley
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2015-03-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1400872405

In spite of steady growth in popularity, Pinter's plays have continued to elude adequate critical appraisal. Considering the last decade's scholarship, Austin E. Quigley attributes the impasse in Pinter criticism to the failure of Pinter's readers to appreciate the diversity of ways in which language can transmit information. This explanation places recent commentaries in a new light and enables the author to take a fresh approach to the plays themselves. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Modern Stage and Other Worlds (Routledge Revivals)

The Modern Stage and Other Worlds (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Austin E. Quigley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2015-08-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 131761965X

Modern plays are strikingly diverse and, as a result, any attempt to locate an underlying unity between them encounters difficulties: to focus on what they have in common is often to overlook what is of primary importance in particular plays; to focus on their differences is to note the novelty of the plays without increasing their accessibility. In this study, first published in 1985, Austin E. Quigley takes as his paradigm case the relationship between the world of the stage and the world of the audience, and explores various modes of communication between domains. He asks how changes in the structure of the drama relate to changes in the structure of the theatre, and changes in the role of the audience. Detailed interpretations of plays by Pinero, Ibsen, Strindberg, Brecht, Ionesco, Beckett and Pinter question principles about the modern theatre and establish links between drama structure and theatre structure, theme, and performance space.

House of the Deaf

House of the Deaf
Author: Lamar Herrin
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2006-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1932961283

Haunting and beautiful, this is the story of one man's brush with terrorism and his quest to find answers after his daughter was killed in a bombing by Basque separatists.

Work and the Workplace

Work and the Workplace
Author: Sheila H. Akabas
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0231111673

-- Lawerence S. Root, professor at the School of Social Work and director of the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Michigan.

Dignity of Risk

Dignity of Risk
Author: Joseph Ibrahim
Publisher:
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2019-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780646991085

Prof Joe, a geriatrician, is faced with a difficult decision when he finds that his elderly patient, Mr Jones, can no longer live safely at home. He decides to put Mr Jones in a care-home to protect him from all the risks around him, but soon finds himself uneasy about his decision.

Murder Your Darlings

Murder Your Darlings
Author: J.J. Murphy
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101476796

One morning legendary wit Dorothy Parker discovers someone under Manhattan's famed Algonquin Round Table. A little early for a passed out drunk, isn't it? But he's not dead drunk, just dead. When a charming writer from Mississippi named Billy Faulkner becomes a suspect in the murder, Dorothy decides to dabble in a little detective work, enlisting her literary cohorts. It's up to the Algonquins to outwit the true culprit-preferably before cocktail hour-and before the clever killer turns the tables on them.

Columbia Rising

Columbia Rising
Author: John L. Brooke
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 646
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 080783887X

In Columbia Rising, Bancroft Prize-winning historian John L. Brooke explores the struggle within the young American nation over the extension of social and political rights after the Revolution. By closely examining the formation and interplay of political structures and civil institutions in the upper Hudson Valley, Brooke traces the debates over who should fall within and outside of the legally protected category of citizen. The story of Martin Van Buren threads the narrative, since his views profoundly influenced American understandings of consent and civil society and led to the birth of the American party system. Brooke's analysis of the revolutionary settlement as a dynamic and unstable compromise over the balance of power offers a window onto a local struggle that mirrored the nationwide effort to define American citizenship.

Shanghai Messenger

Shanghai Messenger
Author: Andrea Cheng
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781584302384

A story in verse of a biracial Chinese American girl's journey to self-discovery and love of family as she visits her extended family in Shanghai, China. For middle grade readers.