Download or read book Dramas of the Nuclear Age a Descriptive List of English language Plays written by Charles A. Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a bibliographic and descriptive record of English language plays that deal directly and significantly with the Bomb, a code term denoting all major aspects of the Nuclear Age that relate to atomic weapons - but not nuclear power. Descriptions of the plays are oriented toward their content as nuclear-age dramas. The descriptions are presented in chronological order, since the plays vary in nature and number according to the nuclear situation that existed in the real world. It includes a selective chronology of that evolving situation along with the landmarks of literature and journalism that it spawned. An index of playwrights concludes the volume.
Download or read book Dramas of the Nuclear Age written by Charles A. Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Physics Plays written by Jenni G. Halpin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes recent physics plays, arguing that their enaction of concepts from the sciences they discuss alters the nature of the decisions made by the characters, changing the ethical judgements that might be cast on them. Recent physics plays regularly alter the shape of space-time itself, drawing together disparate moments, reversing the flow of time, creating apparent contradictions, and iterating scenes for multiple branches of counterfactual history. With these changes both causality and responsibility shift, variously. The roles of iconic scientists, such as Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg, are interrogated for their dramatic value, placing history and dramatic license in tension. Cold War strategies and the limits of espionage highlight the emphatically personal involvement of ordinary individuals. This study is vital reading for those interested in physics plays and the relationship between the sciences and the humanities.
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science dramatic written by Eva-Sabine Zehelein and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science Plays form a flourishing dramatic sub-genre. The present study provides an informative overview shedding light on the diversity of ways in which the natural sciences and/or scientists are put on stage. Detailed text-based analyses of eighteen plays, many of them previously unexamined elsewhere, exemplify the genre's remarkable variety. "Classics" such as 'Copenhagen' and 'Arcadia' are discussed, as well as e.g. 'Proof', 'QED', 'Taboos', 'Remembering Miss Meitner', 'An Experiment With an Air Pump', 'Blinded by the Sun' and 'Einstein's Gift'. All plays look critically at scientific progress or promise, pointing at socio-political and ethical challenges for today as well as the future. The plays' analyses are embedded into discussions of two vital discourses, the Two Cultures and the Science Wars, as well as the drama vs. performance studies paradigm. Together with background material on various themes, events and personae, 'Science: Dramatic' broadens into a comprehensive work on the science-drama-society interface.
Download or read book Selected Interdisciplinary Essays on the Representation of the Don Juan Archetype in Myth and Culture written by Andrew Ginger and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays offer an interdisciplinary approach to the figure of Don Juan, exploring the developing and different responses to him over the centuries, across the genres and media. They address the key formulation of the character in 17th-century Spain, trace his development through the opera up to and beyond Mozart, and, finally, survey his destiny in the Modern Period of literature.
Download or read book In Time Just written by Jennifer Gayle Halpin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Comparative Study of Longinus and Al Jurjani written by Adnan K. Abdulla and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consolidating and expanding arguments and conclusions he has made in two articles in English and a book in Arabic, Abdulla investigates the similarities in the ideas and critical criteria of two the important critics. Longinus wrote Peri Hupsous (On the Sublime) in the first or third century AD. Al-Qadi al Jurjani wrote Al-Wasata bayna al-Mutanabbi
Download or read book Bibliographic Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to Selected Afro Latino Writers written by Margaret Lindsay Morris and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief monograph discusses the works of ten writers from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil, Uruguay, and Ecuador. Their work is quoted extensively, in both Spanish and English. The book discusses the major themes of their work, and meditates on issues of identity--specifically, the role of Black people in Latino culture. Morris teaches at Smith College. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book Comparative Readings of Poems Portraying Symbolic Images of Creative Genius written by Carlos Ceia and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cluster of comparative essays opens up new critical and cultural vistas, as much for the English-speaking reader as the Portuguese scholar. Dr. Ceia's foreword sets out with absolute clarity the objectives and scope of his study in which he will examine the way that poetic imagination is treated by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, arguably Portugal's greatest living poet, as well as by other major writers of the Western and Eastern traditions. This cluster of comparative essays opens up new critical and cultural vistas, as much for the English-speaking reader as the Portuguese scholar. The author's foreword sets out with absolute clarity the objectives and scope of his study, in which he will examine the way that poetic imagination is treated by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, arguably Portugal's greatest living poet, as well as by other major writers of the Western and Eastern traditions. In chapter one, basing himself on the theories of Freud and Jung, and taking his examples from a wide-ranging if not eclectic selection of writers (Ted Hughes, Robert Graves and Seamus Heaney among others), Dr Ceia breaks new ground in his quest to explore the ways in which his subjects h
Download or read book Interpreting Radical Metaphor in the Experimental Fictions of Donald Barthelme Thomas Pynchon and Kathy Acker written by Victoria De Zwaan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study argues that the often-noted resistance to interpretation by these authors' experimental fiction has to do with the radical functioning of metaphor in their texts. After an introductory discussion about the contemporary debates about metaphor and narrative, each author's work is examined in various theoretical contexts such as cognitivist models, deconstruction, modernism and post-modernism, concentrating on a number of narrative strategies which are grouped under the term piracy. The conclusion situates the metaphoric narrative in relation to the competing literary critical paradigms of postmodernist fiction.
Download or read book Aspects of Post war German and Japanese Drama 1945 1970 written by Hiroko Harada and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the background of post-war literary developments in Germany and Japan, this study compares several representative dramas. These playwrights attempt to come to terms with military defeat, betrayal by leaders, wartime atrocities, holocaust, blindness, passivity, guilt, collective and individual responsibility.
Download or read book Narrative Perspective and Irony in Selected Chinese and American Fiction written by Ban Wang and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reconsiders irony by blending classical and contemporary critical notions. It revamps the notions of authorial perspective, plot, emotional effect and other generic features of fiction by incorporating socio-historical analysis of practice, ideology and discourse. In discussing Chinese texts, it shows how narrative structure breaks down and authoritative dogma and myth fall apart under a critical irony, shifting narrative stances and multi-voiced language.
Download or read book Linguistic Transformations in Romantic Aesthetics from Coleridge to Emily Dickinson written by Morag Harris and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Morag Harris is firmly grounded in the domain of aesthetics. Her interests lie in the linguistic transformations that take place when the received signs of conventional poetic language metamorphose into the idiosyncratic symbols of a new poem. At the same time this transformation reflects an increment of increase in the identity of the poet, as a poet - a fusion of objective and subjective to create a third thing.
Download or read book The 101 Greatest Plays written by Michael Billington and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having surveyed post-war British drama in State of the Nation, Michael Billington now looks at the global picture. In this provocative and challenging new book, he offers his highly personal selection of the 100 greatest plays ranging from the Greeks to the present-day. But his book is no mere list. Billington justifies his choices in extended essays- and even occasional dialogues- that put the plays in context, explain their significance and trace their performance history. In the end, it's a book that poses an infinite number of questions. What makes a great play? Does the definition change with time and circumstance? Or are certain common factors visible down the ages? It's safe to say that it's a book that, in revising the accepted canon, is bound to stimulate passionate argument and debate. Everyone will have strong views on Billington's chosen hundred and will be inspired to make their own selections. But, coming from Britain's longest-serving theatre critic, these essays are the product of a lifetime spent watching and reading plays and record the adventures of a soul amongst masterpieces.
Download or read book Horizons de Recherche Research Horizons II written by Anna Paola Soncini Fratta and published by EMIL. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les « Mots-Cle » ont pris forme en 2014 lors de la publication du premier numéro des « Horizons de recherche », actes d’un colloque organisé par des jeunes doctorants, tous issus du Master Erasmus Mundus en Cultures Littéraires Européennes. Les chercheurs, inscrits dans de nombreuses universités européennes, confirmaient que l’amitié, le travail collectif, le partage des langues, des cultures, des histoires personnelles, enrichissent non seulement la recherche mais aussi l’individu et la société. Aujourd’hui cette tradition poursuit et se renouvelle, avec le troisième numéro de la série, « Horizon de Recherche II », actes de deux journées d’étude ayant eu lieu à Thessalonique le 25 et 26 juin 2015. Ce volume propose, comme d’habitude, un panorama des recherches stimulantes menées par des doctorants, mais la parole est donnée aussi aux Alumni CLE qui, tout en ayant fait le même parcours d’études littéraires, sont entrés dans le monde professionnel. Cette ouverture témoigne d’une collaboration mise en place par le CLE avec le monde du travail, notamment à travers le projet H.E.A.D. (Humanities and Enterprises Annual Dialogue) dans lequel plusieurs entreprises sont invitées à participer à la formation des étudiants et à leur proposer des sujets de recherche.
