Author: Charles A. Carpenter
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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This volume provides a bibliographic and descriptive record of English language plays that deal directly and significantly with the Bomb, a code term denoting all major aspects of the Nuclear Age that relate to atomic weapons - but not nuclear power. Descriptions of the plays are oriented toward their content as nuclear-age dramas. The descriptions are presented in chronological order, since the plays vary in nature and number according to the nuclear situation that existed in the real world. It includes a selective chronology of that evolving situation along with the landmarks of literature and journalism that it spawned. An index of playwrights concludes the volume.
Author: Charles A. Carpenter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889463936
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Author: Jenni G. Halpin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319751484
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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This book analyzes recent physics plays, arguing that their enaction of concepts from the sciences they discuss alters the nature of the decisions made by the characters, changing the ethical judgements that might be cast on them. Recent physics plays regularly alter the shape of space-time itself, drawing together disparate moments, reversing the flow of time, creating apparent contradictions, and iterating scenes for multiple branches of counterfactual history. With these changes both causality and responsibility shift, variously. The roles of iconic scientists, such as Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg, are interrogated for their dramatic value, placing history and dramatic license in tension. Cold War strategies and the limits of espionage highlight the emphatically personal involvement of ordinary individuals. This study is vital reading for those interested in physics plays and the relationship between the sciences and the humanities.
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1886
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Author: Eva-Sabine Zehelein
Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Science Plays form a flourishing dramatic sub-genre. The present study provides an informative overview shedding light on the diversity of ways in which the natural sciences and/or scientists are put on stage. Detailed text-based analyses of eighteen plays, many of them previously unexamined elsewhere, exemplify the genre's remarkable variety. "Classics" such as 'Copenhagen' and 'Arcadia' are discussed, as well as e.g. 'Proof', 'QED', 'Taboos', 'Remembering Miss Meitner', 'An Experiment With an Air Pump', 'Blinded by the Sun' and 'Einstein's Gift'. All plays look critically at scientific progress or promise, pointing at socio-political and ethical challenges for today as well as the future. The plays' analyses are embedded into discussions of two vital discourses, the Two Cultures and the Science Wars, as well as the drama vs. performance studies paradigm. Together with background material on various themes, events and personae, 'Science: Dramatic' broadens into a comprehensive work on the science-drama-society interface.
Author: Andrew Ginger
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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These essays offer an interdisciplinary approach to the figure of Don Juan, exploring the developing and different responses to him over the centuries, across the genres and media. They address the key formulation of the character in 17th-century Spain, trace his development through the opera up to and beyond Mozart, and, finally, survey his destiny in the Modern Period of literature.
Author: Jennifer Gayle Halpin
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Author: Adnan K. Abdulla
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Consolidating and expanding arguments and conclusions he has made in two articles in English and a book in Arabic, Abdulla investigates the similarities in the ideas and critical criteria of two the important critics. Longinus wrote Peri Hupsous (On the Sublime) in the first or third century AD. Al-Qadi al Jurjani wrote Al-Wasata bayna al-Mutanabbi
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
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Author: Margaret Lindsay Morris
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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This brief monograph discusses the works of ten writers from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil, Uruguay, and Ecuador. Their work is quoted extensively, in both Spanish and English. The book discusses the major themes of their work, and meditates on issues of identity--specifically, the role of Black people in Latino culture. Morris teaches at Smith College. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
