Dictionary of the Theatre

Dictionary of the Theatre
Author: Patrice Pavis
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780802081636

An encyclopedic dictionary of technical and theoretical terms, the book covers all aspects of a semiotic approach to the theatre, with cross-referenced alphabetical entries ranging from absurd to word scenery.

Brecht and Critical Theory

Brecht and Critical Theory
Author: Sean Carney
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2020-07-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1000143228

Arguing that Brecht’s aesthetic theories are still highly relevant today, and that an appreciation of his theory and theatre is essential to an understanding of modern critical theory, this book examines the influence of Brecht’s aesthetic on the pre-eminent materialist critics of the twentieth century: Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Frederic Jameson, Theodor W. Adorno and Raymond Williams. Re-reading Brecht through the lens of post-structuralism, Sean Carney asserts that there is a Lacanian Brecht and a Derridean Brecht: the result of which is a new Brecht whose vital importance for the present is located in decentred theories of subjectivity. Brecht and Critical Theory maps the many ways in which Brechtian thinking pervades critical thought today, informing the critical tools and stances that make up the contemporary study of aesthetics.

Myth and Symbol: Critical Approaches and Applications

Myth and Symbol: Critical Approaches and Applications
Author: Bernice Slote
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1963-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780803250659

Critical Approaches Frye: The Road of Excess Knights: King Lear as Metaphor Kushner: The Critical Method of Gaston Bachelard Gershman: Surrealism: Myth and Reality Applications The Writer and His Method Winner: Myth as a Device in the Works of Chekhov Nothnagle: Myth in the Poetic Creation of Agrippa D'Aubigne Campbell: The Transformation of Biblical Myth: MacLeish's Use of the Adam and Job Stories Hiller: The Symbolism of Gestus in Brecht's Drama Sr. Joselyn: Animal Imagery in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction The Work Examined--Archetypes and Interpretations LaGuardia: Chastity, Regeneration, and World Order in All's Well that Ends Well Jones: Immortality in Two of Milton's Elegies Dougherty: Of Ruskin's Gardens Kern: Myth and Symbol in Criticism of Faulkner's "The Bear" Welliver: The De Vulgari Eloquentia and Dante's Quasi After-Life Vickery: The Golden Bough: Impact and Archetype

The Cambridge Companion to Brecht

The Cambridge Companion to Brecht
Author: Peter Thomson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2002
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521424851

This updated edition properly retains much that was in the original Companion, but also introduces new voices and themes. It brings together the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners and contains new essays on Brecht's early experience of cabaret, his significance in the development of film theory and his unique approach to dramaturgy. A detailed calendar of Brecht's life and work and a selective bibliography of English criticism complete this thorough overview of a writer who constantly aimed to provoke. Book jacket.

Enchanted Evenings

Enchanted Evenings
Author: Geoffrey Holden Block
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2004
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780195167306

Discusses the great Broadway hits, how they were conceived, written and performed.

Visual-Gestural Communication

Visual-Gestural Communication
Author: Willy Conley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2019-04-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0429886020

Visual-Gestural Communication is a truly unique volume in non-language communication devoted to the study of universal gestures, facial expressions, body language, and pantomime. Readers develop the skill and confidence to interact -- sans shared language -- with individuals, such as someone who is deaf or hard of hearing, or who speaks a foreign language. The text and accompanying online resources feature a wealth of icebreakers, sequenced yet modular activities and assignments, as well as resources, student exercises, and teacher-guided tasks that explore aspects and amalgamations of nonverbal communication, theatre, and sign language. It is a tremendous resource for students of visual-gestural communication, sign language interpretation, American Sign Language (and other foreign sign languages), nonverbal communication, theatre, and performance studies, as well as community educators in deaf awareness and advocacy. In addition to the text's vital use in the theatrical arena, it is also applicable to teachers who wish to help their students maximize the use of their facial expressions, gestures, and body language as a prerequisite to learning ASL.

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht
Author: Steve Giles
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1998
Genre: German literature
ISBN: 9789042003194

The publication of this volume of essays marks the centenary of the birth of Bertolt Brecht on 10 February 1898. The essays were commissioned from scholars and critics around the world, and cover six main areas: recent biographical controversies; neglected theoretical writings; the semiotics of Brechtian theatre; new readings of classic texts; Brecht's role and reception in the GDR; and contemporary appropriations of Brecht's work. This volume will be essential reading for all those interested in twentieth century theatre, modern German studies, and the contemporary reassessment of post-war culture in the wake of German unification and the collapse of Stalinist communism in Central and Eastern Europe. The essays in this volume also address a variety of general questions, concerning - for example - authorship and textuality; the nature of Brecht's Marxism in relation to his understanding of modernity, science and Enlightenment reason; Marxist aesthetics; radical cultural politics; and feminist performance theory.

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2023-06-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004456678

The publication of this volume of essays marks the centenary of the birth of Bertolt Brecht on 10 February 1898. The essays were commissioned from scholars and critics around the world, and cover six main areas: recent biographical controversies; neglected theoretical writings; the semiotics of Brechtian theatre; new readings of classic texts; Brecht’s role and reception in the GDR; and contemporary appropriations of Brecht’s work. This volume will be essential reading for all those interested in twentieth century theatre, modern German studies, and the contemporary reassessment of post-war culture in the wake of German unification and the collapse of Stalinist communism in Central and Eastern Europe. The essays in this volume also address a variety of general questions, concerning - for example - authorship and textuality; the nature of Brecht’s Marxism in relation to his understanding of modernity, science and Enlightenment reason; Marxist aesthetics; radical cultural politics; and feminist performance theory.

Music and Performance During the Weimar Republic

Music and Performance During the Weimar Republic
Author: Bryan Randolph Gilliam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1994-07-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521420129

Composers, performers, and audiences alike sought to negate their recent post in various ways: by affirming modern technology (electronic or mechanical music, sound recordings, radio, and film), exploring music of a more remote past (principally Baroque music), and celebrating popular music (particularly jazz). The essays contained in this volume address these fundamental themes.

Untwisting the Serpent

Untwisting the Serpent
Author: Daniel Albright
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780226012537

Modernist art often seems to give more frustration than pleasure to its audience. Daniel Albright shows that this perception arises partly because we usually consider each art form in isolation, rather than collaboration.