Woyzeck

Author : David G. Richards
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571132208
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Georg Büchner's Woyzeck written by David G. Richards and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2001 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first extensive survey and analysis of the criticism of Woyzeck from the nineteenth century to the present."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Karoline Gritzner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317332989
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Georg Büchner's Woyzeck written by Karoline Gritzner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Everyone's an abyss. You get dizzy if you look down.' -- Woyzeck Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck was left unfinished at the time of its author’s death in 1837, but the play is now widely recognised as the first ‘modern’ drama in the history of European theatre. Its fragmentary form and critical socio-political content have had a lasting influence on artists, readers and audiences to this day. The abuse, exploitation, and disenfranchisement that Woyzeck’s titular protagonist endures find their mirror in his own murderous outburst. But beyond that, they also echo in the flux and confusion of the various drafts and versions in which the play has been presented since its emergence. In this fresh engagement with a modern classic, Gritzner examines the revolutionary dimensions of Büchner’s political and creative practice, as well as modern approaches to the play in performance.

Author : Neil LaBute
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468314033
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woyzeck written by Neil LaBute and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His girlfriend, Marie, by whom he’s fathered a child; Marie’s overpowering desire for the alluring Drum- Major; and the murderous outcome of this oppressive admixture of circumstances is without a doubt one of the bleakest works of world literature. It is also considered by many to mark the beginning of modern drama. In this powerful adaption, Neil LaBute embraces the glittering darkness of Woyzeck's violent, erotic, inhumane world and uncompromisingly makes it his own. From his opening in an operating theatre and then scene by macabre scene, LaBute imbues this classic with his singular intensity and moral vision, as he takes it to its nightmarish conclusion. Included in this volume is Neil LaBute’s provocative new monologue “Kandahar,†? in which a soldier back from Afghanistan calmly explains his devastating actions of the day before. A gripping stand-alone piece, this short work is also a trenchant modern-day exploration of the potent and enduring themes of Woyzeck.

Author : Philip George Hill
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838632673
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Dramatic Heritage written by Philip George Hill and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of European drama. Includes the Oresteia. Oedipus the King. The Trojan Women, Everyman, and The Mandrake, among others. Each play is preceded by a critical introduction.

Author : Howard Colyer
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326482955
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woyzeck written by Howard Colyer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of the German stage adapted as a monologue. Though written in 1837 Woyzeck is widely regarded as the first Expressionist play due to its splintered and fragmentary nature. Here it is presented in a new form.

Author : Richard T. Gray
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804724029
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stations of the Divided Subject written by Richard T. Gray and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sociohistory of German bourgeois literature from 1770-1914 based on detailed readings of six cononical literary texts.

Author : Iain Bamforth
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859845349
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Body in the Library written by Iain Bamforth and published by Verso. This book was released on 2003-12-17 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Body in the Library provides a nuanced and realistic picture of how medicine and society have abetted and thwarted each other ever since the lawyers behind the French Revolution banished the clergy and replaced them with doctors, priests of the body. Ranging from Charles Dickens to Oliver Sacks, Anton Chekhov to Raymond Queneau, Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf, Miguel Torga to Guido Ceronetti, The Body in the Library is an anthology of poems, stories, journal entries, Socratic dialogue, table-talk, clinical vignettes, aphorisms, and excerpts written by doctor-writers themselves. Engaging and provocative, philosophical and instructive, intermittently funny and sometimes appalling, this anthology sets out to stimulate and entertain. With an acerbic introduction and witty contextual preface to each account, it will educate both patients and doctors curious to know more about the historical dimensions of medical practice. Armed with a first-hand experience of liberal medicine and knowledge of several languages, Iain Bamforth has scoured the literatures of Europe to provide a well-rounded and cross-cultural sense of what it means to be a doctor entering the twenty-first century.

Author : Sander L. Gilman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803270695
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smart Jews written by Sander L. Gilman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart Jews addresses one of the most controversial theories of our day: the alleged connection between race (or ethnicity), intelligence, and virtue. Sander Gilman shows that such theories have a long, disturbing history. He examines a wide range of texts-scientific treatises, novels, films, philosophical works, and operas-that assert the greater intelligence (and, often, lesser virtue) of Jews. The book opens with a discussion of concepts that relate intelligence and race (particularly those that figure in the controversial bestseller The Bell Curve); it then describes "scientific" theories of Jewish superior intelligence that were developed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Gilman explores the reactions to those theories by Jewish scientists and intellectuals of that era, including Sigmund Freud, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The conclusion turns to how such ideas figure in modern novels and films, from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon to Stephen Spielberg's Schindler's List and Robert Redford's Quiz Show. Gilman demonstrates how stereotypes can permeate society, finding expression in everything from scientific work to popular culture. And he shows how the seemingly flattering attribution of superior intelligence has served to isolate Jews and to cast upon them the imputation of lesser virtue. A fascinating, highly readable book, Smart Jews is an essential work in our ongoing debates about race, ethnicity, intelligence, and virtue. Sander Gilman is Henry R. Luce Professor of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology at the University of Chicago. His works include Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race, and Madness; Jewish Self-Hatred:Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of Jews; and Inscribing the Other (Nebraska 1992).

Author : Robert Brustein
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809080583
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reimagining American Theatre written by Robert Brustein and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-12-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wide-ranging, discerning essays and reviews in which Mr. Brustein finds that the theatre has been quietly reinventing the nature of its art.

Author : Arved Mark Ashby
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580461433
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pleasure of Modernist Music written by Arved Mark Ashby and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate over modernist music has continued for almost a century: from Berg's Wozzeck and Webern's Symphony Op.21 to John Cage's renegotiation of musical control, the unusual musical practices of the Velvet Underground, and Stanley Kubrick's use of Ligeti's Lux Aeterna in the epic film 2001. The composers discussed in these pages -- including Bartók, Stockhausen, Bernard Herrmann, Steve Reich, and many others -- are modernists in that they are defined by their individualism, whether covert or overt, and share a basic urge toward redesigning musical discourse. The aim of this volume is to negotiate a varied and open middle ground between polemical extremes of reception. The contributors sketch out the possible significance of a repertory that in past discussions has been deemed either meaningless or beyond describable meaning. With an emphasis on recent aesthetics and contexts -- including film music, sexuality, metaphor, and ideas of a listening grammar -- they trace the meanings that such works and composers have held for listeners of different kinds. None of them takes up the usual mandate of "educated listening" to modernist works: the notion that a person can appreciate "difficult" music if given enough time and schooling. Instead the book defines novel but meaningful avenues of significance for modernist music, avenues beyond those deemed appropriate or acceptable by the academy. While some contributors offer new listening strategies, most interpret the listening premise more loosely: as a metaphor for any manner of personal and immediate connection with music. In addition to a previously untranslated article by Pierre Boulez, the volume contains articles (all but one previously unpublished) by twelve distinctive and prominent composers, music critics, and music theorists from America, Europe, Australia, and South Africa: Arved Ashby, Amy Bauer, William Bolcom, Jonathan Bernard, Judy Lochhead, Fred Maus, Andrew Mead, Greg Sandow, Martin Scherzinger, Jeremy Tambling, Richard Toop, and Lloyd Whitesell. Arved Ashby is Associate Professor of Music at the Ohio State University.