Author: Howard Colyer
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326482955
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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A classic of the German stage adapted as a monologue. Though written in 1837 Woyzeck is widely regarded as the first Expressionist play due to its splintered and fragmentary nature. Here it is presented in a new form.
Author: Georg Buchner
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141935499
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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Collected in this volume are powerful dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast now recognized as a major figure of world literature. Also included are selections from Büchner's letters and philosophical writings.
Author: Karl Georg Büchner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789063150600
Category :
Languages : nl
Pages : 64
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Blijspel over twee koningskinderen die het hun opgelegde huwelijk ontvluchten.
Author: David G. Richards
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571132208
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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This is the first extensive survey and analysis of the criticism of Woyzeck from the nineteenth century to the present."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Ronald M. Radano
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226702006
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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"A specter lurks in the house of music, and it goes by the name of race," write Ronald Radano and Philip Bohlman in their introduction. Yet the intimate relationship between race and music has rarely been examined by contemporary scholars, most of whom have abandoned it for the more enlightened notions of ethnicity and culture. Here, a distinguished group of contributors confront the issue head on. Representing an unusually broad range of academic disciplines and geographic regions, they critically examine how the imagination of race has influenced musical production, reception, and scholarly analysis, even as they reject the objectivity of the concept itself. Each essay follows the lead of the substantial introduction, which reviews the history of race in European and American, non-Western and global musics, placing it within the contexts of the colonial experience and the more recent formation of "world music." Offering a bold, new revisionist agenda for musicology in a postmodern, postcolonial world, this book will appeal to students of culture and race across the humanities and social sciences.
Author: James Crighton
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Dramatist Georg Buchner was a qualified medical doctor, primarily a neurologist, fascinated by psychiatry, then in its infancy. This study evaluates Buchner's portrayal of insanity in relation to the medical opinion of his time, and to contemporaneous literary treatments of the same subject in German. It provides a wide range of documentary evidence unfamiliar to literary scholars to reveal the full originality and accuracy of Buchner's insights.
Author: Georg Büchner
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408135590
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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This is your rhetoric translated. These wretches, these executioners, the guillotine are your speeches come to life. You have built your doctrines out of human heads... Why should an event that transforms the whole of humanity not advance through blood? 1794: the French Revolution reaches its climax. After a series of bloody purges the life-loving, volatile Danton is tormented by his part in the killing. His political rival, the driven, ascetic Robespierre, decides Danton's fate. A titanic struggle begins. Once friends who wanted to change the world, now one stands for compromise the other for ideological purity as the guillotine awaits. A revolutionary himself, George Büchner was 21 when he wrote the play in 1835, while hiding from the police. With its hair-raising on-rush of scenes and vivid dramatisation of complex, visionary characters, Danton's Death has a claim to be the greatest political tragedy ever written. In his newly-revised translation, Howard Brenton captures Büchner's exhilarating energy as Danton struggles to avoid his inexorable fall.
Author: Philip George Hill
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838632673
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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An anthology of European drama. Includes the Oresteia. Oedipus the King. The Trojan Women, Everyman, and The Mandrake, among others. Each play is preceded by a critical introduction.
Author: Erdmute Wenzel White
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9781571131287
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Hugo Ball (1886-1927), poet, musician, dancer, impresario, philosopher, was one of the brilliant literary figures of the early twentieth century. Working with some of the great artists of his time, including Kandinsky, von Laban, Tzara, and Hans Arp, he was at the cutting edge of modern thought as theatre director, Dada agitator and leading member of the luminous Berne circle. This study takes a new look at Ball, providing above all a close reading of his texts, and focussing on works which are seen as open-ended or given to inventing their own form, including Tenderenda der Phantast, his abstract poem cycle 'Gadji beri bimba', and Simultan Krippenspiel, a 'noise concert' or opera, which enthralled his audience the night of May 31, 1916. The book deals first with Ball's education as an artist and with the important figures in his life, notably Max Reinhardt, Frank Wedekind, and Vassily Kandinsky, whose theoretical stance he came in part to adopt. Subsequent chapters examine his theatre work as actor, playwright, critic and dramaturge, comprising his years of apprenticeship in Berlin, Plauen and Munich.
Author: J. P. Stern
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000762912
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 303
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Originally published in 1971, this book outlines the period of Germany’s belated industrial revolution and suggests why German literature does not, before the 1880s, contribute to the tradition of European realism. It considers the alternatives to realism offered in three genres of drama, poetry and prose fiction. The book closely analyses specific texts, both in the original and in translation, with comparisons with non-German works.
