Download or read book Anton Chekhov the Iconoclast written by Lee John Williames and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee J. Williames views Anton Chekhov as a change agent and iconoclast in a manner similar to Zola and Darwin. This study shows that Chekhov was deeply influenced by the scientific method, that he was objective in his representations and that he carefully chose what he wrote about. It was his intention to explode stereotypes by clearly and objectively stating the problems of Russian society in his stories. He felt that his readers would be moved to accomplish change through individual initiative if they saw clearly what the problems were in Russia To demonstrate these points, this work presents an intellectual biography of Chekhov and then examines the objectivity and validity of his views on Russian society.

Download or read book A Study Guide for Anton Chekhov s Seagull written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Anton Chekhov's "Seagull," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Download or read book New Poetics of Chekhov s Major Plays written by Harai Golomb and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text attempts to map the unique structure and meaning that comprise Chekhov's immensely rich artistic universe. The prime components of his theatrical technique and fictional world are explored to uncover the basic principles governing the Chekhov's universe.

Download or read book Anton Chekhov written by Rose Whyman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anton Chekhov offers a critical introduction to the plays and productions of this canonical playwright, examining the genius of Chekhov's writing, theatrical representation and dramatic philosophy. Emphasising Chekhov’s continued relevance and his mastery of the tragicomic, Rose Whyman provides an insightful assessment of his life and work. All of Chekhov’s major dramas are analysed, in addition to his vaudevilles, one-act plays and stories. The works are studied in relation to traditional criticism and more recent theoretical and cultural standpoints, including cultural materialism, philosophy and gender studies. Analysis of key historical and recent productions, display the development of the drama, as well as the playwright’s continued appeal. Anton Chekhov provides readers with an accessible comparative study of the relationship between Chekhov's life, work and ideological thought.

Download or read book Interpreting Chekhov written by Geoffrey Borny and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's contention is that Chekhov's plays have often been misinterpreted by scholars and directors, particularly through their failure to adequately balance the comic and tragic elements inherent in these works. Through a close examination of the form and content of Chekhov's dramas, the author shows how deeply pessimistic or overly optimistic interpretations fail to sufficiently account for the rich complexity and ambiguity of these plays. The author suggests that, by accepting that Chekhov's plays are synthetic tragi-comedies which juxtapose potentially tragic sub-texts with essentially comic texts, critics and directors are more likely to produce richer and more deeply satisfying interpretations of these works. Besides being of general interest to any reader interested in understanding Chekhov's work, the book is intended to be of particular interest to students of Drama and Theatre Studies and to potential directors of these subtle plays.

Download or read book Anton Chekhov written by Ronald L. Johnson and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though long recognized as one of the founding fathers of the short story, it is perhaps the combined longevity and scope of Anton Chekhov's influence that is most astounding. The list of authors, many of them contemporary, who routinely cite Chekhov as a major influence in their own writing could almost read as a who's who in 20th-century English and American literature. Indeed, the seemingly casual story of an ordinary life, told with articulate delicacy and heightened mood and detail, populates not only Chekhov's canon but also that of the modern short story. His ability to provide for the reader a truly intimate feel for what is most telling - a vista, the weather, a conversation - has become the cornerstone of the form. Prevalent in the works of Katherine Mansfield, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and Nadine Gordimer, among others, this distinctive style of writing is a testament to Chekhov's international influence. As with all the "greats" of literature, though, it is more than just style and structure that lives on: the motif of individual freedom, so prevalent in Chekhov's writing, is especially poignant today. In Anton Chekhov: A Study of the Short Fiction, Ronald L. Johnson follows the Russian master as he matures from a newspaper and magazine writer to becoming the "father" of the modern short story. In a chronological study of an astoundingly prolific career, Johnson examines a number of Chekhov stories in great detail, echoing the thorough attention to detail for which his subject was well known. In this comprehensive study, Johnson follows the development of what was to become the benchmark form of the short story, while also tracing the vitality and importance of thecontent of those stories. Johnson's study shows that Chekhov was more than just the father of a style, but was profoundly concerned with human rights and the search for a meaningful life.

Download or read book Anton Chekhov written by Lee John Williames and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Performing Emotions written by Peta Tait and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Performing Emotions, Peta Tait's central argument is that performing emotions in realism is also performing gender identity. This study integrates scholarship on realist drama, theatre and approaches to acting, with interdisciplinary theories of emotion, phenomenology and gender theory. With chapters devoted to masculinity and femininity specifically, as well as to emotions generally, it investigates social beliefs about emotions through Chekhov's four major plays in translation, and English language commentaries on Constantin Stanislavski's direction (of the play's first productions) and his approaches to acting, and Olga Knipper's acting of the central women characters. Tait demonstrates how theatrical emotions are predicated on embodied social performances and create cultural spaces of emotions. Performing Emotions investigates how sexual difference impacts on the representations of emotions. The book develops an accumulative analysis of the meanings of emotions in twentieth century realist drama, theatre and acting.

Download or read book The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories by Chekhov Dostoevsky Tolstoy Gorky Gogol and many more written by Nicholas Evrèinov and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 1426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gorky, Gogol and many more" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. It is said that if you haven't read the great Russian playwrights and authors then you haven't read anything at all. This edition represents a collection of some of the greatest Russian plays and short stories: Plays Introduction The Wedding The Jubilee A Merry Death The Beautiful Despot The Choice of a Tutor The Inspector General Savva The Life of Man Short Stories The Queen of Spades The Cloak The District Doctor The Christmas Tree And The Wedding God Sees The Truth, But Waits How A Muzhik Fed Two Officials The Shades, A Phantasy The Signal The Darling The Bet Vanka Hide And Seek Dethroned The Servant One Autumn Night Her Lover Lazarus The Revolutionist The Outrage An Honest Thief A Novel in Nine Letters An Unpleasant Predicament Another Man's Wife The Heavenly Christmas Tree The Peasant Marey The Crocodile Bobok The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Mumu The Shot St. John'S Eve An Old Acquaintance The Mantle The Nose Memoirs Of A Madman A May Night The Viy Knock, Knock, Knock The Inn Lieutenant Yergunov's Story The Dog The Watch Essay on Russian Novelists Lectures on Russian Novelists

Download or read book The Essential Russian Plays Short Stories written by Nicholas Evrèinov and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 1426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. It is said that if you haven't read the great Russian playwrights and authors then you haven't read anything at all. This edition represents a collection of some of the greatest Russian plays and short stories: Plays Introduction The Wedding The Jubilee A Merry Death The Beautiful Despot The Choice of a Tutor The Inspector General Savva The Life of Man Short Stories The Queen of Spades The Cloak The District Doctor The Christmas Tree And The Wedding God Sees The Truth, But Waits How A Muzhik Fed Two Officials The Shades, A Phantasy The Signal The Darling The Bet Vanka Hide And Seek Dethroned The Servant One Autumn Night Her Lover Lazarus The Revolutionist The Outrage An Honest Thief A Novel in Nine Letters An Unpleasant Predicament Another Man's Wife The Heavenly Christmas Tree The Peasant Marey The Crocodile Bobok The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Mumu The Shot St. John'S Eve An Old Acquaintance The Mantle The Nose Memoirs Of A Madman A May Night The Viy Knock, Knock, Knock The Inn Lieutenant Yergunov's Story The Dog The Watch Essay on Russian Novelists Lectures on Russian Novelists

Download or read book A Bibliography of Anton Chekhov in English written by Lauren G. Leighton and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not possible to provide a comprehensive selection of an estimated 350,000 reviews of Chekhov plays, 1994-2003, but an attempt has been made to provide a representative sampling of reviews in major newspapers and current periodicals. Citations throughout this Bibliography are full and unabbreviated, the intent being to provide access to each work in every appropriate category without complicating the search process with confusing cross-listings. Entries for collections are accompanied by listings of contents in the order given in tables of contents or alphabetically. Entries for collections provide a base for subsequent listings of individual major works for addition of subsequent editions, reprints, and re-publications. Translations of plays are categorized by their most commonly known English titles and cited within categories by the English title given for a particular translation.

Download or read book 90 Masterpieces You Must Read Vol 1 written by Jules Verne and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-12 with total page 19145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invest your time in reading the true masterpieces of world literature, the greatest works by the masters of their craft, the revolutionary works, the timeless classics and the eternally moving storylines every person should experience in their lifetime: Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Middlemarch (George Eliot) The Madman: His Parables and Poems (Kahlil Gibran) Ward No. 6 (Anton Chekhov) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) The Overcoat (Gogol) Ulysses (James Joyce) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot) Odes (John Keats) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Emma (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Lorna Doone (R.D. Blackmore) The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Vanity Fair (Thackeray) Dangerous Liaisons (De Laclos) The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot) Dona Perfecta (Benito Pérez Galdós) Swann's Way (Marcel Proust) Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence) David Copperfield (Charles Dickens) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy) The Wings of the Dove (Henry James) The History of a Scoundrel or Bel-Ami (Guy de Maupassant) Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling) Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Pepita Jimenez (Juan Valera) The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope) The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) The Blazing World (Margaret Cavendish) The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) The Republic (Plato) The Golden Ass (Apuleius) Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) Art of War (Sun Tzu) Candide (Voltaire) Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Frederick Douglass) Dream Psychology (Sigmund Freud) The Einstein Theory of Relativity by H. A. Lorentz The Science of Being Well (Wallace D. Wattles) As a Man Thinketh (James Allen) The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie) A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Sign of Four (Arthur Conan Doyle) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) The Black Cat (Edgar Allan Poe) The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum) Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson (Selma Lagerlöf) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) White Fang (Jack London) Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne) Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett) The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling) Tarzan of the Apes (Edgar Rice Burroughs) The Complete Fairytales of Brothers Grimm The Complete Fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) Botchan (Soseki Natsume) The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Download or read book THE RUSSIANS The Greatest Works by Dostoevsky Chekhov Tolstoy Pushkin Gogol Turgenev and Many More written by Nicholas Evrèinov and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 1426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said that if you haven't read the great Russian playwrights and authors then you haven't read anything at all. This edition represents a collection of some of the greatest Russian plays and short stories: Plays: Introduction, The Wedding, The Jubilee, A Merry Death, The Beautiful Despot, The Choice of a Tutor, The Inspector General, Savva, The Life of Man, Short Stories, The Queen of Spades, The Cloak, The District Doctor, The Christmas Tree And The Wedding, God Sees The Truth, But Waits, How A Muzhik Fed, Two Officials, The Shades, A Phantasy, The Signal, The Darling, The Bet, Vanka, Hide And Seek, Dethroned, The Servant, One Autumn Night, Her Lover Lazarus, The Revolutionist, The Outrage, An Honest Thief, A Novel in Nine Letters, An Unpleasant Predicament, Another Man's Wife, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, The Peasant Marey, The Crocodile Bobok, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Mumu, The Shot, St. John'S Eve, An Old Acquaintance, The Mantle, The Nose, Memoirs Of A Madman, A May Night, The Viy Knock, Knock, Knock, The Inn, Lieutenant Yergunov's Story, The Dog, The Watch, Essay on Russian Novelists, Lectures on Russian Novelists

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Download or read book The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories by Dostoevsky Tolstoy Chekhov Gorky Gogol and many more written by William Lyon Phelps and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Best Russian Plays and Short Stories by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, Gogol and many more" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. It is said that if you haven't read the great Russian playwrights and authors then you haven't read anything at all. This edition represents a collection of some of the greatest Russian plays and short stories: Plays The Inspector General Savva The Life of Man Short Stories The Queen of Spades The Cloak The District Doctor The Christmas Tree And The Wedding God Sees The Truth, But Waits How A Muzhik Fed Two Officials The Shades, A Phantasy The Signal The Darling The Bet Vanka Hide And Seek Dethroned The Servant One Autumn Night Her Lover Lazarus The Revolutionist The Outrage An Honest Thief A Novel in Nine Letters An Unpleasant Predicament Another Man's Wife The Heavenly Christmas Tree The Peasant Marey The Crocodile Bobok The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Mumu The Shot St. John'S Eve An Old Acquaintance The Mantle The Nose Memoirs Of A Madman A May Night The Viy Knock, Knock, Knock The Inn Lieutenant Yergunov's Story The Dog The Watch Essays On Russian Novelists Lectures On Russian Novelists

Download or read book The Greatest Russian Short Stories Plays written by William Lyon Phelps and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 1203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greatest Russian Short Stories & Plays assembles a panoramic display of Russia's literary genius, encapsulating the rich tapestry of emotions, philosophies, and the human condition explored by its most eminent writers. This collection traverses the evocative landscapes of realism, romanticism, and the existential, providing a mosaic of voices that echo the tumultuous periods of Russian history. From the psychological depths of Dostoyevsky to the intricate character studies of Chekhov, and the moral ponderings of Tolstoy, the anthology is a testament to the diverse literary styles and thematic concerns that have shaped Russian literature. The anthology is not just a mere compilation but a dialogue across generations, encapsulating the transformation of Russian society and thought. The backgrounds of the contributing authors and editors present a kaleidoscope of Russia's literary heritage. The collective contributions of these writers, from the foundational narratives of Pushkin and Gogol to the revolutionary ideas of Gorky and the haunting tales of Andreyev, align with major cultural and literary movements, including but not limited to Romanticism, Realism, and the Symbolist movement. Their collective works offer a window into the soul of a nation at crossroads, reflecting the complexities of its identity crisis and the search for social justice. This anthology is a treasure trove for readers seeking to immerse themselves in the profound depths of Russian literature. It offers an unparalleled opportunity to explore the dialogues between different epochs, ideas, and literary forms within the Russian canon. For scholars, students, and enthusiasts of literature, The Greatest Russian Short Stories & Plays provides not just educational value but a profound exploration into the heart of human experience, as narrated by some of the most profound thinkers of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Delving into this collection promises a journey through the richness of the human condition as interpreted through the Russian eye, making it an invaluable addition to any literary collection.

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