Diderot's writings on the theatre
Author | : Denis Diderot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Denis Diderot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew Herrick Clark |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780754654384 |
Andrew Clark proposes a comprehensive interpretation of Diderot's entire literary, philosophical, and scientific oeuvre as the locus of a fundamental reconceptualization of the relation of part to whole - bee to swarm; organ to body; word to phrase; dissonant chord to harmonic progression; article to encyclopedia; and individual citizen to body politic.
Author | : Denis Diderot |
Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : F. C. Green |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2012-01-12 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781107614840 |
Originally published in 1936, this book gathers together Diderot's writings on theatre, providing the reader, in chronological order, with the unabridged meditations of Diderot on everything relating to the nature of drama. Editorial interference is kept to a minimum, and the use of explanatory footnotes is avoided save where their absence might have obscured the intended meaning. The texts are presented in the original French, with an English introduction. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in drama, dramatic theory, and the position of Diderot in relation to them.
Author | : Denis Diderot |
Publisher | : Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781433113635 |
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was one of the French philosophers and writers of the Enlightenment. This volume contains the first English translations of his plays, The Illegitimate Son and The Father of the Family. These complex and very entertaining plays delve into the attitudes of the middle-class, bourgeois society and reveal an eighteenth-century «suburbia» that populates dramatic and suspenseful situations and settings. The translations are vivid and contemporary and bring the plays alive to early twenty-first-century stage and culture.
Author | : James Fowler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2011-03-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139500554 |
The great eighteenth-century French thinker Denis Diderot (1713–84) once compared himself to a weathervane, by which he meant that his mind was in constant motion. In an extraordinarily diverse career he produced novels, plays, art criticism, works of philosophy and poetics, and also reflected on music and opera. Perhaps most famously, he ensured the publication of the Encyclopédie, which has often been credited with hastening the onset of the French Revolution. Known as one of the three greatest philosophes of the Enlightenment, Diderot rejected the Christian ideas in which he had been raised. Instead, he became an atheist and a determinist. His radical questioning of received ideas and established religion led to a brief imprisonment, and for that reason, no doubt, some of his subsequent works were written for posterity. This collection of essays celebrates the life and work of this extraordinary figure as we approach the tercentenary of his birth.
Author | : Denis Diderot |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1992-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521369114 |
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was one of the most significant figures of the French enlightenment. His political writings cover the period from the first volume of the Encyclopedie (1751), of which he was principal editor, to the third edition of Raynal's Histoire des Deux Indes (1780), one of the most widely read books of the pre-revolutionary period. This volume contains the most important of Diderot's articles for the Encyclopedie, a substantial number of his contributions to the Histoire, the complete texts of his Supplement au Voyage de Bougainville, one of his most visionary works, and his Observations sur le Nakaz, a precise and detailed political work translated here into English for the first time. The editors' introduction sets these works in their context and shows the underlying coherence of Diderot's thought. A chronology of events and a bibliography are included as further aids to the reader.
Author | : Alois Maria Nagler |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 1959-01-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0486205150 |
A rich resource for students of theater and theater historians, this volume features an annotated collection of more than 300 unusually interesting and detailed articles. Passages by contemporary observers from ancient Greece to modern times include notes on acting, directing, make-up, costuming, stage props, machinery, scene design, and much more.
Author | : Jean Le Rond d'Alembert |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1995-08-15 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780226134765 |
Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot expresses the hopes, dogmas, assumptions, and prejudices that have come to characterize the French Enlightenment. In this preface to the Encyclopedia, d'Alembert traces the history of intellectual progress from the Renaissance to 1751. Including a revision of Diderot's Prospectus and a list of contributors to the Encyclopedia, this edition, elegantly translated and introduced by Professor Richard Schwab, is one of the great works of the Enlightenment and an outstanding introduction to the philosophes.