Download or read book Inventing the Spectator written by Joseph Harris and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventing the Spectator reconstructs the theatre spectator's experience as it was understood in France between the Renaissance and the Revolution, raising numerous questions that strike at the very heart of human psychology, cognition, and experience.

Download or read book The Melodramatic Imagination written by Peter Brooks and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lucid and fascinating book, Peter Brooks argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the nineteenth century, he moves on to Balzac and Henry James to show how these "realist" novelists created fiction using the rhetoric and excess of melodrama - in particular its secularized conflicts of good and evil, salvation and damnation. The Melodramatic Imagination has become a classic work for understanding theater, fiction, and film.

Download or read book Hernani written by John J. Janc and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a critical edition, or “édition critique,” of Victor Hugo’s play Hernani. The in-depth introduction includes a study of the manuscript, the galley proofs and all other original documents. The preface and play contain a critical apparatus that indicates all modifications made by Hugo during the composition of the work. Following the play, there are literary, historical, linguistic and critical notes, indexes of all words and proper names, a list of the differences between the first edition of Hernani and the edition of 1836, and a bibliography of works related to the play in question.

Download or read book Victor Hugo and the Romantic Drama written by Albert W. Halsall and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Albert W. Halsall presents the first complete treatment in English of Hugo's plays - a history, plot summary, and detailed analysis of all the dramas, from Cromwel and Torquemada to the juvenilia and the epic melodrama Les Burgraves.

Download or read book A Structural and Sociological Reevaluation of the Eighteenth century Drame written by Margaret Austin Haggstrom and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Diderot s and Rousseau s Contributions to Aesthetics written by Servanne Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sedaine Greuze and the Boundaries of Genre written by Mark Ledbury and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reinterprets the work of the dramatist Michel-Jean Sedaine and the artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze, in the context of their innovative engagement with discourses of genre in eighteenth-century France, and in the light of new archival evidence. It reveals the complexity and audacity of both men's work, and restablishes the less well-known as a figure of major importance.

Download or read book Murders and Madness written by Ruth Harris and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the French debate over crime and madness in the fin de siècle, Harris argues that psychiatric theories of human behaviour and new sociologicalinterpretations of crime combined to undermine the traditional foundations of the penal system and helped to shape the new science of criminology.

Download or read book French Dramatists 1789 1914 written by Barbara T. Cooper and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 1998 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on French dramatists writing during a period when Paris and the provinces saw thousands of dramatic works in a myriad of genres. These plays offered not only entertainment, but broached serious political and social issues as well, during a time of government censorship. Includes information on the various forms of theatrical entertainment, and the various types of playwriting, including melodrama, romantic drama, tragedies, comedies and realistic dramas.

Download or read book Innovation and Renewal written by Derek F. Connon and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part one begins by examining the nature of Diderot's theatrical revolution as it is revealed in the works of dramatic theory, the Entretiens sur Le Fils naturel and De la poésie dramatique, as well as in his letters and articles for the Correspondance littéraire. It also compares this theory with the level of innovation revealed in practical terms in the plays themselves. Diderot's approach to theatrical dialogue seems to be one of the most original, and most frequently criticised, aspects of his dramaturgy and this is therefore the subject of a separate chapter. Part two examines both the sources of Diderot's dramatic works, and the way in which he renews this source material in order to produce dramatic theory which seems more original than it actually is, and a theoretical style which, for good or ill, is uniquely his own. This section begins with a consideration of the most obviously derivative of his dramatic works, his translation of The Gamester, which, because of the contemporary popularity of the English play, gives us a unique opportunity to compare Diderot's working methods with those of three French contemporaries who were also attracted by this text. The remaining chapters deal firstly with the major influences on the dramatic theory, and secondly with the sources and compositional methods of the four plays: Le Fils naturel, Le Père de famille, Les Pères malheureux and Est-il bon? Est-il méchant?

Download or read book Sublime and Grotesque written by William Driver Howarth and published by London : Harrap. This book was released on 1975 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Homenatge a C sar Sim n written by Antonia Cabanilles and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2000 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In the Shadows of Romance written by Jeffrey N. Cox and published by Athens : Ohio University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The R le of the Family in Melodrama 1797 1827 written by Charles George Bird and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Critical Bibliography of French Literature The twentieth century ed by D W Alden and R A Brooks written by David Clark Cabeen and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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