Download or read book The Literature Workbook written by Clara Calvo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Literature Workbook is a practical introductory textbook for literary studies, which can be used either for independent study or as part of a taught class. Laying the ground for further study, The Literature Workbook introduces the beginning student to the essential analytic and interpretative skills that are needed for literary appreciation and evaluation. It also equips the teacher with practical tools and materials for use in seminars or when setting written assessments and projects. Arranged according to genre and chronology, the chapters acquaint the reader with a range of key figures in English literaure and encourage the reader to think about them in their historical and cultural contexts. Adopting a user-friendly case-study approach, each chapter contains * exercises and activities * discussion hints * project work * suggestions for further reading The Workbook also includes: * a glossary * a subject and name index.
Download or read book Wait written by Julie Jensen and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our girl Wendy Burger stands on the edge of a summer that will change her life forever. It's the summer she moves out of her father's house (and into the UPS truck). The summer she starts a theatre ..."--Page 4 cover.
Download or read book Struts Frets written by Jon Skovron and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music is in Sammy’s blood. His grandfather was a jazz musician, and Sammy’s indie rock band could be huge one day—if they don’t self-destruct first. Winning the upcoming Battle of the Bands would justify all the band’s compromises and reassure Sammy that his life’s dream could become a reality. But practices are hard to schedule when Sammy’s grandfather is sick and getting worse, his mother is too busy to help either of them, and his best friend may want to be his girlfriend. When everything in Sammy’s life seems to be headed for major catastrophe, will his music be enough to keep him together?
Download or read book Pamphlet written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Political Theatre of David Edgar written by Janelle Reinelt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Edgar's writings address the most basic questions of how humans organize and govern themselves in modern societies. This study brings together the disciplines of political philosophy and theatre studies to approach the leading British playwright as a political writer and a public social critic. Edgar uses theatre as a powerful tool of public discourse, an aesthetic modality for engaging with and thinking/feeling through the most pressing social issues of the day. In this he is a supreme rationalist: he deploys character, plot and language to explore ideas, to make certain kinds of discursive cases and model hypothetical alternatives. Reinelt and Hewitt analyze twelve of Edgar's most important plays, including Maydays and Pentecost, and also provide detailed discussions of key performances and critical reception to illustrate the playwright's artistic achievement in relation to his contributions as a public figure in British cultural life.
Download or read book One Hundred Choice Selections written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Thinking About Shakespeare written by Kay Stockholder and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the challenges of maintaining bonds, living up to ideals, and fulfilling desire in Shakespeare’s plays In Thinking About Shakespeare, Kay Stockholder reveals the rich inner lives of some of Shakespeare’s most enigmatic characters and the ways in which their emotions and actions shape and are shaped by the social and political world around them. In addressing all genres in the Shakespeare canon, the authors explore the possibility of people being constant to each other in many different kinds of relationships: those of lovers, kings and subjects, friends, and business partners. While some bonds are irrevocably broken, many are reaffirmed. In all cases, the authors offer insight into what drives Shakespeare’s characters to do what they do, what draws them together or pulls them apart, and the extent to which bonds can ever be eternal. Ultimately, the most durable bond may be between the playwright and the audience, whereby the playwright pleases and the audience approves. The book takes an in-depth look at a dozen of The Bard’s best-loved works, including: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Romeo and Juliet; The Merchant of Venice; Richard II; Henry IV, Part I; Hamlet; Troilus and Cressida; Othello; Macbeth; King Lear; Antony and Cleopatra; and The Tempest. It also provides an epilogue titled: Prospero and Shakespeare. Written in a style accessible for all levels Discusses 12 plays, making it a comprehensive study of Shakespeare’s work Covers every genre of The Bard’s work, giving readers a full sense of Shakespeare’s art/thought over the course of his oeuvre Provides a solid overall sense of each play and the major characters/plot lines in them Providing new and sometimes unconventional and provocative ways to think about characters that have had a long critical heritage, Thinking About Shakespeare is an enlightening read that is perfect for scholars, and ideal for any level of student studying one of history’s greatest storytellers.
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language written by Elena Semino and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Language and Metaphor provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research on metaphor and language, and maps out future directions of research and practice in a variety of contexts in this field.
Download or read book What Do Dreams Do written by Sue Llewellyn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams are a puzzle. We don't know what to make of them. This book explores the evolutionary significance of dreaming, its role in memory, unconscious prediction, creativity and psychiatric illness. It will be compelling reading for anyone interested in psychology, psychiatry, consciousness, and the arts.
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Download or read book The Mockingbird Next Door written by Marja Mills and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller “A winning, nuanced portrait. . . . It seems unlikely we’ll ever have a better record of a remarkable American life.” —USA Today "There are many reasons to be grateful for The Mockingbird Next Door….A zesty account of two women living on their own terms yet always guided by the strong moral compass instilled in them by their father…. It is also an atmospheric tale of changing small-town America; of an unlikely, intergenerational friendship between the young author and her elderly subjects; of journalistic integrity; and of grace and fortitude…. The world [Mills] depicts is sadly gone, but—lucky for us—she caught it just in time."—Washington Post To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. Yet for the last fifty years, the novel’s celebrated author, Harper Lee, known to her friends as Nelle, has said almost nothing on the record. But in 2001, Nelle and her sister, Alice Finch Lee, opened their door to Chicago Tribune journalist Marja Mills. It was the beginning of a long conversation—and a wonderful friendship. Mills was given a rare opportunity to know Nelle, to be a part of the Lees’ life in Alabama, and to hear them reflect on their upbringing, their corner of the Deep South, and how To Kill a Mockingbird affected their lives.
Download or read book Raj Yoga written by Dr. Lake Singh and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every mortal creature is fraught with the fear of death. Even man thinks he shall disappear into the abyss of nothingness. But the Godheads all beg to differ: Krishna, Jesus, Buddha et all. They unequivocally declared death as the staircase to heaven. Raj yoga though confers upon man an even higher state of being: the consummate path of moksha or oneness with the Creator, which is what this sui generis or unprecedented text is all about. WE ARE ON THE CUSP OF A SPIRITUAL BREAKTHROUGH HERE Evidently, the Western world is familiar with only hatha yoga: a series of dexterous postures and breathing exercises designed to promote mens sana in corpore sano—a sound mind in a healthy body. However, there are other more laudable streams of yoga. Among them is raj or the kingly mega yoga, which espouses not only how one may win the heavens, but also be in sync and harmony with the Creator at the exigency or verge of death. In medical parlance, we see a rather striking similarity between birth and death. In birth, scientists have determined that two specialized germ cells fuse to give rise to life. As it happens at the beginning of life, why not at the end also—a process whereby the micro and macro souls precipitously merge and become one? In that case then, what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own soul? The author introduces here testimonials, evidences and plausible yogic techniques that a devout practitioner may employ not only to save his soul but also transform fearsome death to an enlivened spiritual experience.
Download or read book Transcendence Spirit in the Age of Science Second Edition written by H. Bruce May and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear explanation of what transcendence really is, how it underlies all religions, and how you can find it in your own life.
Download or read book The Tragedy of Macbeth written by William Shakespeare and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth in a series of editions of Shakespeare’s most political and history-soaked plays, this Macbeth offers copious aids to understanding the play not found in any other edition. By attending to the play’s medieval Scottish setting in a way that rival editors have never matched—when they have even dug beyond the early seventeenth-century context in which it was produced—Jan H. Blits’s edition richly rewards readers left unsatisfied by “decodings” of the play’s supposed allusions to the politics of early modern England who wish to look deeper. In doing so, it opens the text for readers to encounter, in new ways, the play’s historical, political, and psychological significance.
Download or read book Boswell s Life of Johnson Including Boswell s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson s Diary of A Journey Into North Wales written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
