Download or read book Profane Play Ritual and Jean Genet a Study of His Drama by Lewis T Cetta written by Lewis T. Cetta and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Profane Play Ritual and Jean Genet written by Lewis T. Cetta and published by University : University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Profane Play the Uses of Ritual by Jean Gen t in His Drama written by Lewis T. Cetta and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rites of Passage of Jean Genet written by Gene A. Plunka and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, Gene A. Plunka argues that the most important single element that solidifies all of Genet's work is the concept of metamorphosis. Genet's plays and prose demonstrate the transition from game playing to the establishment of one's identity through a state of risk taking that develops from solitude. However, risk taking per se is not as important as the rite of passage. Anthropologist Victor Turner's work in ethnography is used as a focal point for the examination of rites of passage in Genet's dramas." "Rejecting society, Genet has allied himself with peripheral groups, marginal men, and outcasts--scapegoats who lack power in society. Much of their effort is spent in revolt or direct opposition in mainstream society that sees them as objects to be abused. As an outcast or marginal man, Genet solved his problem of identity through artistic creation and metamorphosis. Likewise, Genet's protagonists are outcasts searching for positive value in a society over which they have no control; they always appear to be the victims or scapegoats. As outcasts, Genet's protagonists establish their identities by first willing their actions and being proud to do so." "Unfortunately, man's sense of Being is constantly undermined by society and the way individuals react to roles, norms, and values. Roles are the products of carefully defined and codified years of positively sanctioned institutional behavior. According to Genet, role playing limits individual freedom, stifles creativity, and impedes differentiation. Genet equates role playing with stagnant bourgeois society that imitates rather than invents; the latter is a word Genet often uses to urge his protagonists into a state of productive metamorphosis. Imitation versus invention is the underlying dialectic between bourgeois society and outcasts that is omnipresent in virtually all of Genet's works." "Faced with rejection, poverty, oppression, and degradation, Genet's outcasts often escape their horrible predicaments by living in a world of illusion that consists of ceremony, game playing, narcissism, sexual and secret rites, or political charades. Like children, Genet's ostracized individuals play games to imitate a world that they can not enter. Essentially, the play acting becomes catharsis for an oppressed group that is otherwise confined to the lower stratum of society." "Role players and outcasts who try to find an identity through cathartic game playing never realize their potential in Genet's world. Instead, Genet is interested in outcasts who immerse themselves in solitude and create their own sense of dignity free from external control. Most important, these isolated individuals may initially play games, yet they ultimately experience metamorphosis from a world of rites, charades, and rituals to a type of "sainthood" where dignity and nobility reign. The apotheosis is achieved through a distinct act of conscious revolt designed to condemn the risk taker to a degraded life of solitude totally distinct from society's norms and values." --Book Jacket.

Download or read book The Theatre of Jean Genet written by Gilbert Leslie Muchmore and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book File on Genet written by Richard C. Webb and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical work on Jean Genet, French novelist and playwright, whose plays include "The Blacks", "The Maids" and "The Balcony". The volume includes a comprehensive checklist of Genet's work, a detailed performance history of each of his plays and previously uncollected reviews and articles.

Download or read book Semiotics of Drama and Theatre written by Herta Schmid and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume presents perspectives in the theory of drama and theatre that are new for the following reasons: 1) the contributions reflect the international cooperation in developing drama and theatre as well as its theories; 2) this collection is the first attempt of presenting papers within the context of (Analytical) Theory of Science; 3) it is the first consistent set of papers starting from semiotics a s a meta-theory. The volume is divided into four sections: I Fundamental of Theatre Research, II Theory of Drama and Theatre, III Descriptive Theatre Research, IV Applied Theatre Research. The fifth and final section offers a selective bibliography of analytical approaches to drama and theatre.

Download or read book Twentieth century French Dramatists written by Mary Anne O'Neil and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2006 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on twentieth-century French playwrights who were largely influenced by non-French traditions, during the greatest age of French theater since the mid 1700s. French drama of the twentieth-century was cosmopolitan, experimental and eclectic and attempted to appeal to a wider audience than in the past. Dramatists came not only from Paris but from the provinces and the French states of the Caribbean as well as from Francophone countries such as Belgium.

Download or read book Books Abroad written by Roy Temple House and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Edges of Loss written by Mark Pizzato and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the reasons for postmodern theory's fascination with theater

Download or read book MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1969- include ACTFL annual bibliography of books and articles on pedagogy in foreign languages 1969-

Download or read book Bibliographic Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Educational Theatre Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Frances C. Locher and published by Contemporary Authors. This book was released on 1975-06 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged alphabetically from Rowland Abbott to Pieter Zwart, each author biography includes personal information, addresses, career history, writings, work in progress, and more.

Download or read book Genet and the Phenomenology of Criticism written by Cornelia Ellen Mease and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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