Download or read book The Limits of Performance in the French Romantic Theatre written by Susan McCready and published by Durham Modern Languages. This book was released on 2007 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes major French plays of the 1830s, focusing on their theatricality, and on the ways in which they expose the workings of the theater rather than conceal them. Through an examination of performance within these plays, the study posits that the stage is a privileged site of demonstration, a literal "proving ground" that lends a physical reality to abstract values announced in the text and shared or questioned by the audience. Negotiating between the literary study of drama and performance theory, this work breaks new ground in nineteenth-century theater scholarship while proposing a fresh direction in the study of text and performance. The Limits of Performance challenges conventional wisdom, offering a novel take on the mal du siècle, that thematic hardy perennial of French Romanticism and the nineteenth century in general, combined with eminently readable and, therefore, compelling analysis of plays - a thought-provoking addition to work in the field (Glyn Hambrook, Modern and Contemporary France, November 2008).

Download or read book Stage of Dreams the Dramatic Art of Alfred de Musset 1828 1834 written by Herbert S. Gochberg and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1907 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alfred de Musset and His Contemporaries written by Richard Scribner Stowe and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Search for the Ideal in the Theater of Alfred de Musset written by Virginia Ann Schubert and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alfred de Musset written by Margaret A. Rees and published by New York : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alfred de Musset a Reference Guide written by Patricia Joan Siegel and published by Hall Reference Books. This book was released on 1982 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THis work does not pretend to be exhaustive. Rather, it is an attempt to bring together and systematize the major body of scholarship, including greater and lesser contributions. It is an annotated, not a critical bibliography, and while no capsular form can do justice to a scholarly work, it is hoped that the reader can decide on the basis of the annotation whether or not the work is of interest or is relevant to their research.

Download or read book A Stage For Poets written by Charles Affron and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, the French lyric poets imposed their diction on the theatrical genre and thus illuminated the essence of both poetry and theatre. Ten plays by Victor Hugo, the standard-bearer of the French romantic theatre, and Alfred de Musset, the romantic playwright most frequently performed in France today, are analyzed by Charles Affron to answer the question, "Can the dialetic form of the theatre accommodate the solitary élan of the lyric poet?" As a functional point of departure, he considers those characteristics of lyric poetry—time, voice, and metaphor—which bring us closest to the singular attitudes of Hugo and Musset. Then, examining the texts of Hernani, Les Burgraves, Torquemada, Fantasio, and Lorenzaccio as well as several lesser known plays, Mr. Affron discusses such topics as poetic time, the scope of analogy, theatrical and poetic rhetoric, the guises of the poet-hero, and the manner of sounding the poet's voice upon the stage. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Download or read book Theater of Solitude written by David Sices and published by Dartmouth College Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Makers of Nineteenth Century Culture written by Justin Wintle Esq and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a critical examination of the lives and works of the leading novelists, poets, dramatists, artists, philosophers, social thinkers, mathematicians and scientists of the period. The subjects are assessed in the light of their cultural importance, and each entry is deliberately interpretative, making this work both an essential reference tool and an engaging collection of essays. Figures covered include: Marx, Wagner,Darwin, Malthus, Balzac, Jane Austen, Nietzsche, Babbage, Edgar Allan Poe, Ruskin, Schleiermacher, Herbert Spencer, Harriet Martineau and Oscar Wilde.

Download or read book A Critical and Historical Study of Alfred de Musset s Barberine written by Suzanne Arvedon Rothschild and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Twelve Plays written by Alfred de Musset and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work contains all Alfred de Musset's best known plays, providing a standard reference work for students, an acting text for performers and a lively introduction to this French playwright.

Download or read book Musset Lorenzaccio written by Ceri Crossley and published by Foyles. This book was released on 1983 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Nineteenth Century 1789 1870 written by Patrick Edward Charvet and published by London : Benn ; New York : Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1967 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary history of France.

Download or read book The Private Secretary written by George Sand and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romantic novelist George Sand - friend of Balzac, Hugo, and Liszt, and lover of Musset and Chopin - wrote this novel in 1834 in Paris and Venice, during her tumultuous affair with Musset. Through this story of a princess, the absolute ruler of an imaginary kingdom, Sand explores issues of leadership by women, male jealousy, and the problems faced by women who want both political power and committed relationships. The Private Secretary (Le Secrétaire intime) speaks to the concerns of contemporary women who want to «have it all», and is appropriate for courses in women's studies as well as French literature in translation.

Download or read book The Short Stories of Alfred de Musset written by Margot Jane Sachs and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Narcissus and Echo written by Naomi Segal and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Narcissus and Echo" is about romantic confessional fiction, in which the woman dies and the man lives to tell "his" tale. Whether femme fatale, nun, sister, aristocrat or fallen women, she is always somehow blamed for her own destruction. What motivates the man's narrative and how does the women's voice, curiously, survive the text? Naomi Segal brings insights from feminist and psychoanalytic theory to bear on writers such as Chateaubriand, Musset, Prevost and Gautier. Running throughout this lively and provocative study are dichotomies between speech and sight, male "doubles" and female "mirror", the narcissism of nostalgia and the paradoxes of undesire.

Download or read book ELH written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A journal of English literary history", 1934-1955.