Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135042899X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
'This is a remarkable, challenging and bravely original work.' The Guardian Ripped from the world by her husband's paranoia, Desdemona turns in death towards the memory of Barbary, the North African maid who raised her: together, they explore the contours of death, race, war, love and motherhood, in a moving elegy. Audacious with ambition, Desdemona is Toni Morrison's intimate reimagining of the fourth act of Shakespeare's Othello, mixing monologue with Rokia Traore's lyrical songs to re-examine the Bard's presentation of race and female suffering. Part-play, part-concert, part-quest into the afterlife, Desdemona is published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, featuring a new introduction by Joyce Green MacDonald.
Desdemona
Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849436355
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
The story of Desdemona from Shakespeare's Othello is re-imagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison, Malian singer and songwriter Rokia Traoré, and acclaimed stage director Peter Sellars. Morrison's response to Othello is an intimate dialogue of words and music between Desdemona and her African nurse Barbary. Morrison gives voice and depth to the female characters, letting them speak and sing in the fullness of their hearts. Desdemona is an extraordinary narrative of words, music and song about Shakespeares doomed heroine, who speaks from the grave about the traumas of race, class, gender, war and the transformative power of love. Toni Morrison transports one of the most iconic, central, and disturbing treatments of race in Western culture into the new realities and potential outcomes facing a rising generation of the 21st century.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849436355
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
The story of Desdemona from Shakespeare's Othello is re-imagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison, Malian singer and songwriter Rokia Traoré, and acclaimed stage director Peter Sellars. Morrison's response to Othello is an intimate dialogue of words and music between Desdemona and her African nurse Barbary. Morrison gives voice and depth to the female characters, letting them speak and sing in the fullness of their hearts. Desdemona is an extraordinary narrative of words, music and song about Shakespeares doomed heroine, who speaks from the grave about the traumas of race, class, gender, war and the transformative power of love. Toni Morrison transports one of the most iconic, central, and disturbing treatments of race in Western culture into the new realities and potential outcomes facing a rising generation of the 21st century.
Heldenplatz
Author: Thomas Bernhard
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN: 9781840029956
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Thomas Bernhard is widely considered to be one of the most important German playwrights in the post-war era. Highly acclaimed, he has written over twenty plays and novels and gained a reputation as one of Austria’s most controversial authors. Bernhard wrote Heldenplatz in 1988 as a response to the fiftieth anniversary of the Anschluss (annexation) of Austria by Hitler’s Germany. Highly controversial in Austria, the play concerns a Jewish professor who returns to Vienna after the Second World War and discovers that his fellow Austrians are as anti-semitic as ever. ‘Heldenplatz’ is the square in Vienna where the Austrian-born Hitler made his first speech after the Anschluss. In Heldenplatz, Bernhard's final play, he explores the shared isolation of people who have lost their bearings, along with most of their illusions.
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN: 9781840029956
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Thomas Bernhard is widely considered to be one of the most important German playwrights in the post-war era. Highly acclaimed, he has written over twenty plays and novels and gained a reputation as one of Austria’s most controversial authors. Bernhard wrote Heldenplatz in 1988 as a response to the fiftieth anniversary of the Anschluss (annexation) of Austria by Hitler’s Germany. Highly controversial in Austria, the play concerns a Jewish professor who returns to Vienna after the Second World War and discovers that his fellow Austrians are as anti-semitic as ever. ‘Heldenplatz’ is the square in Vienna where the Austrian-born Hitler made his first speech after the Anschluss. In Heldenplatz, Bernhard's final play, he explores the shared isolation of people who have lost their bearings, along with most of their illusions.
The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance
Author: Michael Wyatt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521876060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
Leading international contributors present a lively and interdisciplinary panorama of the Italian Renaissance as it has developed in recent decades.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521876060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
Leading international contributors present a lively and interdisciplinary panorama of the Italian Renaissance as it has developed in recent decades.
The Epistle to Can Grande
Author: Dante Alighieri
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781086938234
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Dante's letter to Lord Can Grande della Scala, concerning the Divine Comedy in general, the Paradiso in particular, and the method to be used for interpretation.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781086938234
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Dante's letter to Lord Can Grande della Scala, concerning the Divine Comedy in general, the Paradiso in particular, and the method to be used for interpretation.
The Rhaeto-Romance Languages
Author: Paola Beninca
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134965486
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The Rhaeto-Romance languages have been known as such to the linguistic community since the pioneering studies of Ascoli and Gartner over a century ago. There has never been a community of RR speakers based on a common history or polity and the various dialects are mutually unintelligible, but a unity, based on a number of common features, has been advanced. This book is the first general description of the Rhaeto-Romance languages to be written in English. It provides a critical examination of the phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax of the modern Rhaeto-Romance dialects within the broader perspective of Romance comparative linguistics.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134965486
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The Rhaeto-Romance languages have been known as such to the linguistic community since the pioneering studies of Ascoli and Gartner over a century ago. There has never been a community of RR speakers based on a common history or polity and the various dialects are mutually unintelligible, but a unity, based on a number of common features, has been advanced. This book is the first general description of the Rhaeto-Romance languages to be written in English. It provides a critical examination of the phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax of the modern Rhaeto-Romance dialects within the broader perspective of Romance comparative linguistics.
Catholic Women's Movements in Liberal and Fascist Italy
Author: H. Dawes
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137406330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the early 1900s the Catholic Church appealed, for the first time in its history, directly to women to reassert its religious, political and social relevance in Italian society. This book examines how the highly successful conservative Catholic women's movements that followed, and how they mobilized women against secular feminism.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137406330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the early 1900s the Catholic Church appealed, for the first time in its history, directly to women to reassert its religious, political and social relevance in Italian society. This book examines how the highly successful conservative Catholic women's movements that followed, and how they mobilized women against secular feminism.
Liberating Literature
Author: Maria Lauret
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415065151
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A bold and revealing book which looks with fresh vision at feminist political writing. Maria Lauret developes a new definition of the genre and illuminates the profound influence and importance of African-American women's writing.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415065151
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A bold and revealing book which looks with fresh vision at feminist political writing. Maria Lauret developes a new definition of the genre and illuminates the profound influence and importance of African-American women's writing.
Semiotext(e) SF
Author: Rudy von Bitter Rucker
Publisher: Autonomedia
ISBN: 9780936756431
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Autonomedia
ISBN: 9780936756431
Category : Fantasy fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sports Play
Author: Elfriede Jelinek
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN: 9781849434027
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
With translation assistance and a foreword by Karen Juers-Munby First produced in 1998 at the famous Vienna Burgtheater, the remarkable and provocative Sports Play by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek is a postdramatic theatrical exploration of the making, marketing and sale of the human body and of emotions in sport. It explores contemporary society’s obsession with fitness and body culture bringing into sharp focus our need to belong to a group, a team or a nation. Sport is seen as a form of war in peacetime.
Publisher: Oberon Books
ISBN: 9781849434027
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
With translation assistance and a foreword by Karen Juers-Munby First produced in 1998 at the famous Vienna Burgtheater, the remarkable and provocative Sports Play by Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek is a postdramatic theatrical exploration of the making, marketing and sale of the human body and of emotions in sport. It explores contemporary society’s obsession with fitness and body culture bringing into sharp focus our need to belong to a group, a team or a nation. Sport is seen as a form of war in peacetime.
The Syntax of Italian Dialects
Author: Christina Tortora
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195136463
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This volume addresses issues in the syntax of a wide array of Italian dialects (including several Rhaeto-Romance varieties: Paduan, Sicilian, Bellunese, Piedmontese, Calabrian, and Italian itself). The collection offers contributions from 12 of the leading scholars in the area of Italian dialect.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195136463
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This volume addresses issues in the syntax of a wide array of Italian dialects (including several Rhaeto-Romance varieties: Paduan, Sicilian, Bellunese, Piedmontese, Calabrian, and Italian itself). The collection offers contributions from 12 of the leading scholars in the area of Italian dialect.