Download or read book Jane Austen Action Figure and Other Plays written by Elaine Avila and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thought-provoking, adventurous feminist plays by playwright Elaine Avila that push at theatrical form, explore gender and identity, and human life on this planet. With an introduction by American director Ted Gregory.

Download or read book Jane Austen Action Figure written by Elaine Avila and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Among the Janeites written by Deborah Yaffe and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With warmth and humor, lifelong Janeite Deborah Yaffe opens the door on the quirky, thriving subculture of Jane Austen fandom.

Download or read book 24 Gun Control Plays written by Caridad Svich and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NoPassport theatre alliance and press in collaboration with force/collision, Theater J and Twinbiz NYC commissioned and presented an evening of short works in support of gun control on Janurary 26, 2013 at Georgetown University's Gonda Theatre in Washington D.C. directed by force/collision to coincide with Molly Smith and Suzanne Blue Star Boy's March on Washington for Gun Control.

Download or read book Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey written by Jane Austen and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pride Popularity written by Jenni James and published by Walnut Springs Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despising the conceited antics of the popular group in high school, including Taylor Anderson, Chloe Elizabeth Hart is determined to be the only girl who can avoid falling for Taylor's charms.

Download or read book Capital Punishment in Popular Culture Toys Games and Nursery Rhymes written by Ellen Tsagaris and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art generally imitates life. This book highlights how the death penalty and murder have influenced toy making, pop culture, art, and music. It also addresses issues of equality and injustice involved in death sentencing. Many toys and dolls are illustrated and discussed, including those representing royalty, famous trials and murderers. Included are a brief guide for reading legal cases, an actual United States Supreme Court case, and a brief history of capital punishment theories, exercises and more. Librarians, historians, legal practitioners, museum curators, law professors, criminologists, doll and toy collectors and students alike will find this book useful. Given how often capital punishment appears in everyday life, general readers will find it interesting and engaging.

Download or read book Antique Toys and Dolls written by Constance Eileen King and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mansfield Park written by Jane Austen and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Camp Austen written by Ted Scheinman and published by FSG Originals. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ted Scheinman spent his childhood eating Yorkshire pudding, singing in an Anglican choir, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. As the son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, this seemed normal. Despite his attempts to leave his mother's world behind, he found himself in grad school organizing the first ever University of North Carolina Jane Austen Summer Camp, a weekend-long event that falls somewhere between an academic conference and superfan extravaganza. In Camp Austen, Scheinman tells the story of his indoctrination into this enthusiastic world, delivering a hilarious and poignant survey of one of the most enduring and passionate literary coteries in history. Combining clandestine journalism with frank memoir, and academic savvy with insider knowledge, Camp Austen is perhaps the most comprehensive study of Austen that can be read in a single sitting. Brimming with stockings, culinary etiquette, and scandalous dance partners, this is summer camp as you've never seen it before--back cover.

Download or read book AMERICAN JORNALERO written by Ed Cardona Jr. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AMERICAN JORNALERO: This new play by playwright Ed Cardona Jr., premiered at INTAR in New York City in May 2012, focuses on the plight of a group of day laborers/jornaleros in Queens. A portrait of the intersecting transient lives in the search for a daily wage in a land of many compromised American dreams. A compassionate, clear-eyed and illuminating look at lives and people too often ignored in the US landscape, AMERICAN JORNALERO is a vibrant play.

Download or read book empanada for a dream written by juan francisco villa and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-08 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EMPANADA FOR A DREAM by writer/performer Juan Francisco Villa is one boy's story of growing up hard and fast on the Lower East Side. A moving, beautiful tale of love, loss, heartache and forgiveness. EMPANADA FOR A DREAM is a poignant and entertaining portrait of family and neighborhood - set against the secret that destroys it all. It's a story about growing up. It's a story about getting out. And coming back -- to one boy's Lower East Side.

Download or read book Jane Austen and Leisure written by David Selwyn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen's novels portray a leisured society of gentlemen and ladies who do not need to work. Even the minority of clergymen, soldiers and sailors - men with professions - are almost never seen working. Jane Austen herself, despite responsibility for some domestic tasks, wrote as a woman of leisure. Yet leisure, the distinguishing mark of a gentleman, was not meant to be an excuse for idleness. The proper use of leisure to fulfil duties, to read and to think, and above all to pursue social relations in a world where family and marriage for the propertied was of central importance, was a vital test of character.

Download or read book Stages of Resistance Theatre and Politics in the Capitalocene written by Caridad Svich and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-24 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays, interviews and reflections on themes related to making work for live performance in political and aesthetic resistance to forms and systems that oppress human rights and censor or severely limit freedom of expression. This book offers thoughtful, polemical articulations of practice and theory on the multiple meanings of political art, and the ways in which progressive, wholistic cultural change may be instigated through artworks."--Back cover

Download or read book Southern Bound written by John S. Sledge and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern Bound represents a running conversation on books, writers, and literary travel written for the Mobile Press-Register Books page from 1995 to 2011 by John S. Sledge. The collection includes more than one hundred of the best pieces culled from Sledge's total output of approximately seven hundred columns. Numerous classic authors are celebrated in these pages, including Homer, Plato, Gibbon, Melville, Proust, Conrad, Cather, and Steinbeck as well as modern writers such as Walter Edgar, Tom Franklin, and Eugene Walter. While some of the essays are relatively straightforward book reviews, others present meditative and deeply personal perspectives on the author's literary experiences such as serving on the jury in the play version To Kill a Mockingbird; spending the night alone in a Jesuit college library's venerable stacks; rambling through funky New Orleans bookshops; talking to Square Books owner Richard Howorth while overlooking the Oxford, Mississippi courthouse; rereading Treasure Island on the shores of Mobile Bay; and remembering a beloved father's favorite books. Engaging and spirited, Southern Bound represents the critical art at its most accessible and will prove entertaining fare for anyone who loves the written word.

Download or read book Jane Austen and Children written by David Selwyn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen is not usually associated with children - especially since she had none of her own. But there are in fact more children in her novels than one might at first think. She herself was from a sizeable family, with numerous nephews and nieces. She was, by all accounts, good with children and popular with them. It was therefore natural for her to include them in her novels, even if sometimes offstage. This book, by one of the world's leading authorities on Austen, looks at both the real and the literary children in her life - children seen and unseen (and dead); children as models of behaviour, good and bad; as objects of affection, amusement, usefulness, pity, regret, jealousy, resentment; children in the way; children as excuses; children as heirs. In the process it casts fascinating light on a hitherto largely ignored aspect of her work and the age in which she lived.

Download or read book Crisis at Comicon written by Irene Vartanoff and published by Irene Vartanoff. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can't a superheroine catch a break? Chloe Cole wants to cosplay in her Temporary Superheroine uniform at the Chicago comicon, but when the evil Mistress Miraculous threatens massive disaster, Chloe has to step up and fight. She's the only one who can control the Dimensional Diamond and save the comicon. Chloe flings herself into superheroine mode again in another comic book–style adventure novel featuring mysterious superpowers, fast action, and a long list of suspects with grudges against a comic book company celebrating its 75th anniversary. This was supposed to be a fun weekend, but there's far too much drama—especially in Chloe's personal relationships. CHARACTERS IN THIS NOVEL Chloe Cole: Reluctant female superhero, possessor of the Dimensional Diamond, strong female protagonist, snarky 26-year-old with boyfriend and career issues Roland Kirby: Eager comics fanboy, dependable partner in superhero adventures, ex-boyfriend who keeps pushing Eric Wood: Ruthless comic book company CEO, questionably honest lover and confidant, man with a past Jean Westover: Veteran comic book artist now relegated to drawing in Artists' Alley, prime suspect Norman Krigstein: Troublemaking comic book writer Howard Hogarth: Comic book personality—nobody's quite sure what this old guy ever did in the comics biz Ray Herriman: Discontented young comic book company employee Leslie Evans: Naive female comic book artist, possible frenemy Sarah Manning: Cosplayer, off-duty cop, heroine's friend Ardis Tenniel: Cosplayer, granddaughter of an artist cheated out of his rights, heroine's friend Damien Nast: Sword salesman, grandson of an artist cheated out of his rights, hot tattooed guy Jovial Jerry Fine: Beloved elderly icon of the comic book world, benign but skeptical participant in fast-paced adventures Mistress Miraculous: Tries to destroy the comicon any way she can. What's her problem, anyway? Marie Severin: Real-life brilliant comic book artist and all-round great gal who asked to be in this book PG-rated, fast-paced comic book–style adventure featuring super-powered battles and recognizable classic comic book scenarios—and some iffy romance thrown in. Keywords: superheroes super heroine chick lit strong female protagonist new adult romance super powers female superhero satire comic books humorous adventure comedy coming of age