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Book Columbia University Course in Literature

Download or read book Columbia University Course in Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Polish Literature

Download or read book A History of Polish Literature written by Anna Nasiłowska and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Nasilowska's A History of Polish Literature is a one-volume guide that immerses readers in the rich tapestry of Polish literature and reveals its enduring impact on European identity from the Middle Ages to the late twentieth century. By exploring key themes, writers, and works and grounding her discussion in crucial biographical context, she weaves together the lives of a carefully curated list of Polish writers to paint a vivid literary portrait, elucidating the epochs that these writers shaped. Offering indispensable insights for readers who may be unfamiliar with the world of Polish literature, it is an excellent jumping-off-point for further study and learning.

Book The Taming of Romanticism

Download or read book The Taming of Romanticism written by Virgil Nemoianu and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at a broad spectrum of writers--English, French, German, Italian, Russian and other East Europeans--Virgil Nemoianu offers here a coherent characterization of the period 1815-1848. This he calls the era of the domestication of romanticism. The explosive, visionary core of romanticism is seen to give way--after the defeat of Napoleon--to an expanded and softer version reflecting middle-class values. This later form of romanticism is characterized by moralizing efforts to reform society, a sentimental yearning for the tranquility of home and hearth, and persistent faith in the individual, alongside a new skepticism, shattered ideals, and consequent irony. Expanding the application of the term Biedermeier, which has been useful in describing this period in German literature, Nemoianu provides a new framework for understanding these years in a wider European context.

Book Alternative Theatre in Poland

Download or read book Alternative Theatre in Poland written by Kathleen Cioffi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex nature of the relationship between theatre and politics is explored in this study of the Polish theatre scene. It traces the development of the alternative theatre movement from its origins, in the 1950s, through to its decline in the late 1980s.

Book The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism written by Paul Hamilton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TThe Oxford Handbook to European Romanticism brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements of European Romanticism. The book focuses on the cultural history of the period extending from the French Revolution to the uprisings of 1848. It begins with a series of chapters examining key texts written by major writers in languages including: French; German; Italian; Spanish; Russian; Hungarian; Greek; and Polish amongst others. A second section then explores the naturally inter-disciplinary quality of Romanticism, exemplified by the different discourses with which writers of the time set up an internal, comparative dynamic. These chapters highlight the sense a discourse gives of being written knowledgeably against other pretenders to completeness or comprehensiveness of self-understanding of the time. Discourses typically advance their own claims to resume European culture, collaborating with and at the same time trying to assimilate each other in the process. The main examples featured here are: history; geography; drama; theology; language; philosophy; political theory; the sciences; and the media. Each chapter offers an original and individual interpretation of an inherently comparative world of individual writers and the discursive idioms to which they are historically subject. Together the forty-one chapters provide a comprehensive and provocative overview of European Romanticism.

Book The Method

    Book Details:
  • Author : Isaac Butler
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2022-02-01
  • ISBN : 1635574781
  • Pages : 545 pages

Download or read book The Method written by Isaac Butler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Nonfiction NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER, TIME MAGAZINE, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, VOX, SALON, LIT HUB, AND VANITY FAIR “Entertaining and illuminating.”--The New Yorker * “Compulsively readable.”--New York Times * “Delicious, humane, probing.”--Vulture * “The best and most important book about acting I've ever read.”--Nathan Lane The critically acclaimed cultural history of Method acting-an ebullient account of creative discovery and the birth of classic Hollywood. On stage and screen, we know a great performance when we see it. But how do actors draw from their bodies and minds to turn their selves into art? What is the craft of being an authentic fake? More than a century ago, amid tsarist Russia's crushing repression, one of the most talented actors ever, Konstantin Stanislavski, asked these very questions, reached deep into himself, and emerged with an answer. How his “system” remade itself into the Method and forever transformed American theater and film is an unlikely saga that has never before been fully told. Now, critic and theater director Isaac Butler chronicles the history of the Method in a narrative that transports readers from Moscow to New York to Los Angeles, from The Seagull to A Streetcar Named Desire to Raging Bull. He traces how a cohort of American mavericks--including Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg, and the storied Group Theatre--refashioned Stanislavski's ideas for a Depression-plagued nation that had yet to find its place as an artistic powerhouse. The Group's feuds and rivalries would, in turn, shape generations of actors who enabled Hollywood to become the global dream-factory it is today. Some of these performers the Method would uplift; others, it would destroy. Long after its midcentury heyday, the Method lives on as one of the most influential--and misunderstood--ideas in American culture. Studded with marquee names--from Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, and Elia Kazan, to James Baldwin, Ellen Burstyn, and Dustin Hoffman--The Method is a spirited history of ideas and a must-read for any fan of Broadway or American film.

Book Shakespeare in Poland

Download or read book Shakespeare in Poland written by Josephine Nicoll and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Philippine Agricultural Review

Download or read book The Philippine Agricultural Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1-6 contain the Annual report of the Bureau of Agriculture for 1906/07-1912/13.

Book Monograph of the Urostyloidea  Ciliophora  Hypotricha

Download or read book Monograph of the Urostyloidea Ciliophora Hypotricha written by Helmut Berger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-19 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second book of a series treating the hypotrichs, a major part of the spirotrichous ciliates. It summarises 230 years of morphological, morphogenetic, faunistic, and ecological data, heretofore scattered in some 1,300 references around the world. The book provides taxonomists, cell biologists, and ecologists with a thorough survey supplying synonyms, nomenclature and systematics, and an extensive description of morphology and ecology, including almost all published records, for each species.

Book European Romanticism

Download or read book European Romanticism written by István Sőtér and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Further On  Nothing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michal Kobialka
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0816654808
  • Pages : 552 pages

Download or read book Further On Nothing written by Michal Kobialka and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) was one of the twentieth century's most innovative visual artists, stage directors, and theoreticians. His theatre productions and manifestos challenged the conventions of creating art in post-World War II culture and expanded the boundaries of Dada, surrealist, Constructivist, and happening theatre forms. Kantor's most widely known productions--The Dead Class (1975), Wielopole, Wielopole (1980), Let the Artists Die (1985), and Today Is My Birthday (1990)--have had a profound impact on playwrights and artists who continue today to engage with his radical theatre. In Fur.

Book Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa

Download or read book Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa written by Royal Society of South Africa and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Polish Romantic Literature

Download or read book Polish Romantic Literature written by Julian Krzyżanowski and published by Freeport, N.Y : Books for Libraries Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Journey Through Other Spaces

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tadeusz Kantor
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1993-08-02
  • ISBN : 9780520914391
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book A Journey Through Other Spaces written by Tadeusz Kantor and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-08-02 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polish director Tadeusz Kantor, who died in 1990 at the age of 75, is widely recognized as one of the most important theatre artists of this century. Critics have ranked him with such influential directors as Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Brecht, and Grotowski. Known in the United States primarily for his visually stunning productions, he is also highly regarded throughout Europe for his theoretically adventurous writings. Michal Kobialka, whom Kantor authorized to translate his work, provides us with the first collection of Kantor's essays in English, together with his analysis of the corpus of Kantor's work, both written and staged.

Book Monograph of the Amphisiellidae and Trachelostylidae  Ciliophora  Hypotricha

Download or read book Monograph of the Amphisiellidae and Trachelostylidae Ciliophora Hypotricha written by Helmut Berger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-10-21 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the third of six volumes that review the Hypotricha, a major group of the spirotrichous ciliates. It is about the Amphisiellidae, the Trachelostylidae, and some genera of unknown position in the Hypotricha.

Book Leaflets of Philippine Botany

Download or read book Leaflets of Philippine Botany written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unconventional Conventions in Theatre Texts

Download or read book Unconventional Conventions in Theatre Texts written by Günter Ahrends and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1990 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: