Equus

Equus PDF Author: Peter Shaffer
Publisher: Penguin Books Limited
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Theatre program.

Equus

Equus PDF Author: Peter Shaffer
Publisher: Penguin Books Limited
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Book Description
Theatre program.

Tragic Method and Tragic Theology

Tragic Method and Tragic Theology PDF Author: Larry D. Bouchard
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271039795
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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The book moves in a nonreductive way between literary and theological criticism to show how drama and religious thought discern the experience of evil. &"Tragic method&" refers to how tragic art functions as inquiry; &"tragic theology&" refers to how drama and theology render in thematic or symbolic form certain irreducible dimensions of evil and negativity. Bouchard defines no single tragic method or any single view of evil but searches for the distinctive interplay of tragic method of theology in each dramatist. The work opens by scrutinizing certain important interpretations of Greek tragedy. Paul Ricoeur's interpretation of &"the Wicked God and the Tragic Vision&" receives major focus, as does Sophocles, who as a tragedian dramatized the action of inquiry and interpretation. Bouchard then examines Augustine's views of evil and sin, Reinhold Niebuhr's critique of the ironies of history, and Tillich's conceptions of the demonic. By interpreting tragedy in terms of sin or the effects of sin, each theologian resists implications in his own thought pointing to a less resolvable tragic theology. And yet these theologians also contribute very creative understandings of the irreducible character of evil and tragic experience. Substantive and original readings of three playwrights are offered: Rolf Hochhuth's tragedy of vocation, The Deputy, Robert Lowell's trilogy of American historical blindness, The Old Glory, and Peter Shaffer's dreams of tragic awareness and accountability in Equus and Amadeus, revealing new permutations of the irreducibility of evil in contemporary Christian and Jewish religious thinkers who may be helpful in this task, and concludes with a description of the experience of perplexed thought, self-critical in view of tragedy's witness to irreducibility of evil.

Inter-Actions

Inter-Actions PDF Author: Nelvin Vos
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761844708
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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This book is an exploration of the linguistic, structural, historical, and thematic relationships of religion and drama. It is not an attempt to sacralize drama so that it becomes a substitute for religion, nor will it reduce religion to its aesthetic dimension. What does religion tell us about drama, and what does drama tell us about religion? What have been their inter-actions in our tradition? The conversation between religion and culture, drama and Christianity, needs to be ongoing. This book is a contribution to the dialogue, asking questions, pointing towards possible answers, and encouraging others to join in the conversation.

Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers

Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers PDF Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349813664
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1585

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Life and Art

Life and Art PDF Author: James W. Hamilton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429915675
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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In this volume an inquiry into the nature of the creative process is attempted by paying close attention to the lives of various artists, poets, novelists and playwrights, and selected works of each in order to demonstrate an essential relationship between the two, and that it is most difficult to delineate the nuances of the creative act by treating them as separate entitites. Emphasis is placed upon the effect of early trauma, such as object loss and various forms of deprivation, as a powerful unconscious motivating factor and upon the dream and transitional object as facilitators of the creative effort.

Contemporary Dramatists

Contemporary Dramatists PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 836

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Thematics Reconsidered

Thematics Reconsidered PDF Author: Trommler
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004651268
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Responding to a new interest in thematic studies, the volume features essays by some of the leading scholars from the United States and Europe. In honor of Horst S. Daemmrich, the co-author with Ingrid Daemmrich of the handbook Themes and Motifs in Western Literature, the contributors reassess, both in theory and in case studies, the viability of thematics as part of contemporary literary criticism. They demonstrate the broad scope of methodologies between strict systematization of themes and motifs and reader-response conceptions of 'theming.' Special topics include a thematology of the Jewish people; motifs in folklore; a cluster on madness, hysteria, and mastery; the story of Judith; Cinderella; thematics in Dürrenmatt and Isaac Babel; chaos as a theme. A concluding chapter illuminates aspects of nineteenth-century literary history.

Forum

Forum PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Five Finger Exercise

Five Finger Exercise PDF Author: Peter Shaffer
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573619298
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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About a house of discord, a husband who is a tactless philistine, a wife, cultured and artistic, and a son, afraid of his father and too dependent on his mother.

Shrivings

Shrivings PDF Author: Peter Shaffer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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English pacifist, his devoted American secretary, and young guest, the son of the pacifist's former poet-student await the latter's visit. The poet manages to destroy belief in man's improvability of the entire household by his nihilistic, violent nature.