Author: Frederick Burwick
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271042966
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination
Author: Frederick Burwick
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271042966
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271042966
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Illusion and the Drama
Author: Frederick Burwick
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271041609
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271041609
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Grand Illusion
Author: Gabriela Cruz
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190915056
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A new and groundbreaking historical narrative, Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera explores how technical innovations in Paris transformed the grand opera into a transcendent, dream-like audio-visual spectacle.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190915056
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A new and groundbreaking historical narrative, Grand Illusion: Phantasmagoria in Nineteenth-Century Opera explores how technical innovations in Paris transformed the grand opera into a transcendent, dream-like audio-visual spectacle.
The Vital Lie
Author: Anthony S. Abbott
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817312021
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover if modern playwrights treat illusions as helpful or necessary to life, or as signals of sicknesses from which human beings need to be cured. What happens to characters when they are forced to face the truth about themselves and their worlds without the protection of their illusions? The author develops a three-part historical analysis of the use of the reality-illusion theme, from its origins as a metaphysical search to its current elaborations as a theatrical game.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817312021
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The Vital Lie is the first book to examine the reality-illusion conflict in modern drama from Ibsen to present-day playwrights. The book questions why vital lies, lies necessary for life itself, are such an obsessive concern for playwrights of the last hundred years. Using the work of fifteen playwrights, Abbott seeks to discover if modern playwrights treat illusions as helpful or necessary to life, or as signals of sicknesses from which human beings need to be cured. What happens to characters when they are forced to face the truth about themselves and their worlds without the protection of their illusions? The author develops a three-part historical analysis of the use of the reality-illusion theme, from its origins as a metaphysical search to its current elaborations as a theatrical game.
The Theatre of Illusion
Author: Pierre Corneille
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822225034
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
THE STORY: THE THEATRE OF ILLUSION is a tale of magic, love, revenge, mistaken identity, and mistaken perspective. Described by the author as a comedy, a caprice and an extravagance, it is widely considered to be Pierre Corneille's masterpiece.
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822225034
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
THE STORY: THE THEATRE OF ILLUSION is a tale of magic, love, revenge, mistaken identity, and mistaken perspective. Described by the author as a comedy, a caprice and an extravagance, it is widely considered to be Pierre Corneille's masterpiece.
The Illusion
Author: Pierre Corneille
Publisher: Tcg Translations
ISBN: 9781559360906
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner's free adaptation of Pierre Cornielle's neoclassical French comedy, L'Illusion Comique.
Publisher: Tcg Translations
ISBN: 9781559360906
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner's free adaptation of Pierre Cornielle's neoclassical French comedy, L'Illusion Comique.
Immersion and Distance.
Author: Werner Wolf
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401209243
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Readers who appear to be lost in a storyworld, members of theatre or cinema audiences who are moved to tears while watching a performance, beholders of paintings who are absorbed by the representations in front of them, players of computer games entranced by the fictional worlds in which they interactively participate – all of these mental states of imaginative immersion are variants of ‘aesthetic illusion’, as long as the recipients, although thus immersed, are still residually aware that they are experiencing not real life but life-like representations created by artefacts. Aesthetic illusion is one of the most forceful effects of reception processes in representational media and thus constitutes a powerful allurement to expose ourselves, again and again to, e.g., printed stories, pictures and films, be they factual or fictional. In contrast to traditional discussions of this phenomenon, which tend to focus on one medium or genre from one discipline only, the present volume explores aesthetic illusion, as well as its reverse side, the breaking of illusion, from a highly innovative multidisciplinary and transmedial perspective. The essays assembled stem from disciplines that range from literary theory to art history and include contributions on drama, lyric poetry, the visual arts, photography, architecture, instrumental music and computer games, as well as reflections on the cognitive foundations of aesthetic illusion from an evolutionary perspective. The contributions to individual media and aspects of aesthetic illusion are prefaced by a detailed theoretical introduction. Owing to its transmedial and multidisciplinary scope, the volume will be relevant to students and scholars from a wide variety of fields: cultural history at large, intermediality and media studies, as well as, more particularly, literary studies, music, film, and art history.
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401209243
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Readers who appear to be lost in a storyworld, members of theatre or cinema audiences who are moved to tears while watching a performance, beholders of paintings who are absorbed by the representations in front of them, players of computer games entranced by the fictional worlds in which they interactively participate – all of these mental states of imaginative immersion are variants of ‘aesthetic illusion’, as long as the recipients, although thus immersed, are still residually aware that they are experiencing not real life but life-like representations created by artefacts. Aesthetic illusion is one of the most forceful effects of reception processes in representational media and thus constitutes a powerful allurement to expose ourselves, again and again to, e.g., printed stories, pictures and films, be they factual or fictional. In contrast to traditional discussions of this phenomenon, which tend to focus on one medium or genre from one discipline only, the present volume explores aesthetic illusion, as well as its reverse side, the breaking of illusion, from a highly innovative multidisciplinary and transmedial perspective. The essays assembled stem from disciplines that range from literary theory to art history and include contributions on drama, lyric poetry, the visual arts, photography, architecture, instrumental music and computer games, as well as reflections on the cognitive foundations of aesthetic illusion from an evolutionary perspective. The contributions to individual media and aspects of aesthetic illusion are prefaced by a detailed theoretical introduction. Owing to its transmedial and multidisciplinary scope, the volume will be relevant to students and scholars from a wide variety of fields: cultural history at large, intermediality and media studies, as well as, more particularly, literary studies, music, film, and art history.
The Illusion of Power
Author: Stephen Orgel
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520025059
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Presents a study of political theater in the English Renaissance, discussing the differences between a public playhouse and a private, or court theater, and looking at masques and the role of king in the Renaissance court.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520025059
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Presents a study of political theater in the English Renaissance, discussing the differences between a public playhouse and a private, or court theater, and looking at masques and the role of king in the Renaissance court.
Drama Stage and Audience
Author: J. L. Styan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521098694
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book will appeal to students, actors and directors of drama, as well as the theatregoers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521098694
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book will appeal to students, actors and directors of drama, as well as the theatregoers.
The Illusion of the First Time in Acting
Author: William Gillette
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acting
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description