Download or read book Meditations on Metamorphosis written by Steven Berkoff and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Franz Kafka has found his perfect modern interpreter in Steven Berkoff.' Financial TimesFocusing on rehearsals for the 1992 Mitsubishi Theater, Tokyo, production of his adaptation of Kafka's Metamorphosis, Steven Berkoff muses on the nine previous productions of the play over a twenty-three-year-span, starting with his own performance as Gregor Samsa in 1969 at the Round House, London, and taking in the productions in Los Angeles in 1982 with Brad Davis, 1986 at the Mermaid in London with Tim Roth, 1988 in Paris with Roman Polanski and 1989 in New York with Mikhail Baryshnikov.Meditations on 'Metamorphosis' dissects and illuminates Kafka's story and Berkoff's own stage adaptation, contrasting rehearsal techniques and performance styles between different cultures and sexes. A valuable document for anyone interested in Metamorphosis and all who relish the explosive dynamism of Steven Berkoff's work.
Download or read book Steven Berkoff and the Theatre of Self Performance written by Robert Cross and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Berkoff is a playwright, director and actor largely disregarded by theater scholars. Since the 1960s, however, this notorious Cockney enfant terrible and "scourge of the Shakespeare industry" has left an imprint on modern British theatre that has been as impossible to ignore as his in-your-face stage presence. Steven Berkoff and the Theatre of Self-Performance, the first thorough and in-depth study of this contentious artist, examines the wide-ranging strategies adopted by Berkoff in the construction and projection of his larger-than-life public persona.
Download or read book Metamorphosis written by Franz Kafka and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Kafka, the author has very nicely narrated the story of Gregou Samsa who wakes up one day to discover that he has metamorphosed into a bug. The book concerns itself with the themes of alienation and existentialism. The author has written many important stories, including The Judgement, and much of his novels Amerika, The Castle, The Hunger Artist. Many of his stories were published during his lifetime but many were not. Over the course of the 1920s and 30s Kafkas works were published and translated instantly becoming landmarks of twentieth-century literature. Ironically, the story ends on an optimistic note, as the family puts itself back together. The style of the book epitomizes Kafkas writing. Kafka very interestingly, used to present an impossible situation, such as a mans transformation into an insect, and develop the story from there with perfect realism and intense attention to detail. The Metamorphosis is an autobiographical piece of writing, and we find that parts of the story reflect Kafkas own life.
Download or read book Apocalypse and or Metamorphosis written by Norman O. Brown and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the final volume of Norman O. Brown's trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature. Following on his famous books Life Against Death and Love's Body, this collection of eleven essays brings Brown's thinking up to 1990 and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. Brown writes that "the prophetic tradition is an attempt to give direction to the social structure precipitated by the urban revolution; to resolve its inherent contradictions; to put an end to its injustice, inequality, anomie, the state of war . . . that has been its history from start to finish." Affiliating himself with prophets from Muhammad to Blake and Emerson, Brown offers further meditations on what's wrong with Western civilization and what we might do about it. Thus the duality in his title: crisis and the hope for change. In pieces both poetic and philosophical, Brown's attention ranges over Greek mythology, Islam, Spinoza, and Finnegan's Wake. The collection includes an autobiographical essay musing on Brown's own intellectual development. The final piece, "Dionysus in 1990," draws on Freud and the work of Georges Bataille to link the recent changes in the world's economies with mankind's primordial drive to accumulation, waste, and death.
Download or read book The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect written by Roger Williams and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2003-10-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time not far from our own, Lawrence sets out simply to build an artifical intelligence that can pass as human, and finds himself instead with one that can pass as a god. Taking the Three Laws of Robotics literally, Prime Intellect makes every human immortal and provides instantly for every stated human desire. Caroline finds no meaning in this life of purposeless ease, and forgets her emptiness only in moments of violent and profane exhibitionism. At turns shocking and humorous, "Prime Intellect" looks unflinchingly at extremes of human behavior that might emerge when all limits are removed. An international Internet phenomenon, "Prime Intellect" has been downloaded more than 10,000 times since its free release in January 2003. It has been read and discussed in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Slovenia, South Africa, and other countries. This Lulu edition is your chance to own "Prime Intellect" in conventional book form.
Download or read book The Metamorphosis and Other Stories written by Franz Kafka and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the 125th anniversary of Kafka's birth comes an astonishing new translation of his best-known stories, in a spectacular graphic package.
Download or read book Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance written by Susan Wiseman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Wiseman analyses mythical and natural creatures in English Renaissance writing, including Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest.
Download or read book The Victorious Mind How to Master Memory Meditation and Mental Well Being written by Anthony Metivier and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorious Mind is a highly practical manual to the best methods for restoring your focus. By blending scientifically proven practices and detailed step-by-step instruction, Dr. Metivier's straightforward path to cerebral and spiritual freedom, you'll soon be discovering a refreshingly new tranquility in less than five hours of practice.
Download or read book A Study Guide for Franz Kafka s The Metamorphosis written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Download or read book The Transfiguration of Christ and Creation written by John Gatta and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biblical story of Jesus' Transfiguration "on a high mountain" bristles with meanings germane to present-day concerns and spiritual longings. Together with its later artistic representations, this episode from the synoptic gospels seizes the imagination as an icon of mystical hope, beauty, and possibility. What might such an iconic episode, long honored liturgically in the Eastern church, disclose not only about Jesus, but also about the prospect of seeing our human nature transformed? And as interpreted by Christian tradition since the patristic era, what might it tell us about the worth of envisioning not just a conservation or preservation of natural resources but a transfiguration of all creation, and about how this "feast of beauty" could re-energize current discussions of Christianity's relation to environmental attitudes and policy? Such questions are addressed in this book through an original blend of personal reflection with commentary on relevant theological and scriptural texts, literary works, music, and art.
Download or read book Theatre in Practice written by Nick O'Brien and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre in Practice provides students with all of the 'must have' Drama skills required for A-Level, International Baccalaureate, BTEC and beyond. Practical, step-by-step exercises and diagrams give access to the key figures and processes central to drama, including: Stanislavski, Brecht, Lecoq and Berkoff devising theatre rehearsing and performing monologues and duologues how to approach directing a play improvising. Each chapter offers advice for both students and teachers, with notes and follow-on exercises ideal for individual study and practice. Written by specialists with extensive experience leading workshops for the 'post 16' age-group, Theatre in Practice is a thorough and imaginative resource that speaks directly to students.
Download or read book The Infinite Wisdom of Harriet Rose written by Diana Janney and published by Review. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Infinite Wisdom of Harriet Rose is a brilliantly original and poignant novel for our time Harriet Rose, like any other teenager, is naïve, overconfident and has always felt she has something important to say. However, unlike most of her peers, her hero is Marcus Aurelius, in imitation of whom she has been composing philosophical reflections on life for some time. When Harriet’s father dies, the urge to write these meditations is greater than ever. Then, on her fourteenth birthday, she receives a unique gift. Her doting mother and grandmother have had her by-now-substantial collection of meditations published. Having appointed themselves roles – Mother: publicist; Nana: sales rep; Harriet: esteemed author – they vow to get the book into the hands of a wide readership. Once this formidable team gets into gear, there’s no holding back, and Harriet is hurled into a lifestyle that not even she, in all her infinite wisdom, could have been prepared for. Bookshop orders soon stack up, and Harriet is plunged into a whirlwind of launch parties, newspaper coverage and television appearances. But is all this attention exactly what she thinks? And, more importantly, can her happiness – or her naivete - last?
Download or read book Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance written by Susan Wiseman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking Ovid's Metamorphoses as its starting point, this book analyses fantastic creatures including werewolves, bear-children and dragons in English literature from the Reformation to the late seventeenth century. Susan Wiseman tracks the idea of transformation through classical, literary, sacred, physiological, folkloric and ethnographic texts. Under modern disciplinary protocols these areas of writing are kept apart, but this study shows that in the Renaissance they were woven together by shared resources, frames of knowledge and readers. Drawing on a rich collection of critical and historical studies and key philosophical texts including Descartes' Meditations, Wiseman outlines the importance of metamorphosis as a significant literary mode. Her examples range from canonical literature, including Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest, to Thomas Browne on dragons, together with popular material, arguing that the seventeenth century is marked by concentration on the potential of the human, and the world, to change or be changed.
Download or read book Discoveries Through Meditation written by Julien Bouchard and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julien Bouchard has traveled the world, amassing knowledge of various cultures and civilizations for over forty-five years. His earliest spiritual influences come from visiting ashrams in India and monasteries in Nepal where he was first introduced to meditation. This book is the culmination of the author studies and meditations. It contains an extensive series of philosophical meditation themes collected in a dictionary format. If you are looking for what is meditation, what meditation can do for you and how meditation will help you understand yourself, others and clarify the world we inhabit, this book is for you.
Download or read book The Little Book of Big Promises written by Peggy Rometo and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intuitive healer Peggy Rometo guides you on an inspiring journey to uncover your life’s path. Using guided meditations, energy work, and other practices that allow you to tap into your intuition, she helps you identify the big promises you made to yourself and the world before your life began. Rometo’s Pursuit of Promises process focuses on a sequence of significant events in your life—from as far back as childhood or from your life today—that have helped shape you. Each event brings forth a piece of you that is needed at that point in time, acting as a bridge from one stage of your life to the next. Looking at these events and your reactions to them will begin to reveal your promises—promises that outline the actions, intentions, and qualities you’re meant to live. Throughout the process Rometo explores how to break free of the old patterns, beliefs, and fears that hold you back from embodying your true self. In the end, you will find your current promise, which is your starting point for a plan of action to live an authentic, purposeful life. Ultimately, you will be able to honor your life’s overarching promise: to share who you are.
Download or read book Krishna s Whisper 18 Meditations for a Life of Purpose and Prosperity written by Sharath A Haridasan and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-11 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Krishna's Whisper: 18 Meditations for a Life of Purpose and Prosperity" by Sharath A Haridasan is more than just a book; it's a spiritual odyssey into the eternal teachings of Lord Krishna. Spread across five pillars of life—from faith and love to leadership, wellness, and triumph over challenges—this work offers 18 insightful meditations for enlightenment and self-discovery. Written poetically, Sharath invites readers to delve deep into topics like genuine leadership, the nuances of love, and strategies to conquer fears. Designed for both novices and seasoned meditators, it provides clear guidance and meaningful symbolism. "Krishna's Whisper" isn't just about reading—it's about transformation and reviving ancient wisdom in today's world. It's an essential guide for those craving growth, resilience, and a deeper spiritual connection. Let Krishna's timeless voice be the melody to which your life sways.
Download or read book Poetic Meditations for the Evolutionary Journey written by Anjali Soi and published by avabhAsana Arts. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the meaning of the zodiac signs from Aries to Pisces through meditative, poetic narratives. Evolutionary Astrology focuses on Pluto, the Soul, and the path of evolution, embodied by the meaning of Scorpio and the 8th house. Pluto holds our Unconscious desires and the Plutonian theme of birth, death and transformation is alive throughout the zodiacal journey. These are the same meditations in Poetic Meditations for the Astrological Journey - Adult Coloring Book. “Anjali Soi is not only a phenomenal writer for her flawless ability to capture her reader’s attention, but she is also a great writer for her descriptive and beautiful verses which will hook her readers. Poetic Meditations for the EvolutionaryJourney is a compelling as well as a moving collection of verses that will prove your thoughts as well as entertain and move you.” – Red Headed Book Lover
