Author: Richard H. Lawson
Publisher: Riverside, Calif. : Ariadne Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Zauner's A Handful of Earth describes an ambitious domineering woman who gains her financial goals but, like Brecht's Mother Courage, at the cost of her entire family; Elfriede Jelinek's President Evening Breeze, based loosely on a folk play by Johann Nestroy, the acknowledged nineteenth-century master of the form, is a political satire on the career of Kurt Waldheim, the former president of Austria; Peter Rosei's Blameless presents ordinary people as the subject of history; it shows how the media as representatives of commercial culture, popularize and often trivialize serious current issues.
New Anthology of Contemporary Austrian Folk Plays
Author: Richard H. Lawson
Publisher: Riverside, Calif. : Ariadne Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Zauner's A Handful of Earth describes an ambitious domineering woman who gains her financial goals but, like Brecht's Mother Courage, at the cost of her entire family; Elfriede Jelinek's President Evening Breeze, based loosely on a folk play by Johann Nestroy, the acknowledged nineteenth-century master of the form, is a political satire on the career of Kurt Waldheim, the former president of Austria; Peter Rosei's Blameless presents ordinary people as the subject of history; it shows how the media as representatives of commercial culture, popularize and often trivialize serious current issues.
Publisher: Riverside, Calif. : Ariadne Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Zauner's A Handful of Earth describes an ambitious domineering woman who gains her financial goals but, like Brecht's Mother Courage, at the cost of her entire family; Elfriede Jelinek's President Evening Breeze, based loosely on a folk play by Johann Nestroy, the acknowledged nineteenth-century master of the form, is a political satire on the career of Kurt Waldheim, the former president of Austria; Peter Rosei's Blameless presents ordinary people as the subject of history; it shows how the media as representatives of commercial culture, popularize and often trivialize serious current issues.
Anthology of Contemporary Austrian Folk Plays
Author: Veza Canetti
Publisher: Ariadne Press (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The five plays collected in this volume provide a representative sampling of the Austrian contemporary Volksstuck (folk play). The Volksstuck which has its origins in the eighteenth century has become a favorite genre of modern Austrian playwrights because of its tradition of treating basic social problems critically and realistically. The timeless universal drives of greed, power, and inhumanity remain the dominant themes of the modern Volksstuck as they were of the older version. These Selections -- Veza Canetti, The Ogre; Peter Preses/Ulrich Becher, Our Mr. Bockerer; Peter Turrini, Swine; Felix Mitterer, No Place for Idiots; Gerald Szyszkowitz, Friedemann Puntigam -- are available in English for the first time.
Publisher: Ariadne Press (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The five plays collected in this volume provide a representative sampling of the Austrian contemporary Volksstuck (folk play). The Volksstuck which has its origins in the eighteenth century has become a favorite genre of modern Austrian playwrights because of its tradition of treating basic social problems critically and realistically. The timeless universal drives of greed, power, and inhumanity remain the dominant themes of the modern Volksstuck as they were of the older version. These Selections -- Veza Canetti, The Ogre; Peter Preses/Ulrich Becher, Our Mr. Bockerer; Peter Turrini, Swine; Felix Mitterer, No Place for Idiots; Gerald Szyszkowitz, Friedemann Puntigam -- are available in English for the first time.
Austrian Information
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Austria
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Austria
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections
Author: Denise L. Montgomery
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 081087721X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume of Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections is the standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States throughout the 20th century and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 081087721X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume of Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections is the standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States throughout the 20th century and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors.
Elfriede Jelinek Goes Australia
Author: André Bastian
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN: 1925588513
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN: 1925588513
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Modern Austrian Literature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Austrian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Includes the index to the Journal of the International Arthur Schnitzler Research Association, 1961-67.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Austrian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Includes the index to the Journal of the International Arthur Schnitzler Research Association, 1961-67.
The Final Plays
Author: Arthur Schnitzler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This second volume of Austrian Folk Plays gives further evidence of the popularity of this form among contemporary writers. In the late nineteenth century the folk play had fallen into disrepute as trivial literature but in the 1920 it began to be restored to prominence and after World War II writers rediscovered the form and believed that it was ideally suited to treat contemporary social problems.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This second volume of Austrian Folk Plays gives further evidence of the popularity of this form among contemporary writers. In the late nineteenth century the folk play had fallen into disrepute as trivial literature but in the 1920 it began to be restored to prominence and after World War II writers rediscovered the form and believed that it was ideally suited to treat contemporary social problems.
Allemann
Author: Alfred Kolleritsch
Publisher: Ariadne Press (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Kolleritsch transforms what might appear to be a timeworn "historical" theme into a semi-autobiographical statement about the present as the evil from the past latently and semiconsciously pervades the present. The scars on Joseph's body from his past are rediscovered in the virtually unreformed lives of his fellow countrymen."--Jacket.
Publisher: Ariadne Press (CA)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Kolleritsch transforms what might appear to be a timeworn "historical" theme into a semi-autobiographical statement about the present as the evil from the past latently and semiconsciously pervades the present. The scars on Joseph's body from his past are rediscovered in the virtually unreformed lives of his fellow countrymen."--Jacket.
Austria in Literature
Author: Donald G. Daviau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
From a symposium at the University of California, Riverside, in 1997. Contributions in German were published as a special issue of Modern Austrian literature, 31, 3/4, 1998; English contributions are contained in this volume. Twenty-one essays consider the national image of Austria, both historically and in the current period. They examine the view of Austria projected in the writings of American, Austrian, and German authors, ranging from the late 19th century to the present. Attention is given to factors such as the country's natural beauty, the tradition of the monarchy, and pressing political and social problems. Name index only. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
From a symposium at the University of California, Riverside, in 1997. Contributions in German were published as a special issue of Modern Austrian literature, 31, 3/4, 1998; English contributions are contained in this volume. Twenty-one essays consider the national image of Austria, both historically and in the current period. They examine the view of Austria projected in the writings of American, Austrian, and German authors, ranging from the late 19th century to the present. Attention is given to factors such as the country's natural beauty, the tradition of the monarchy, and pressing political and social problems. Name index only. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
New Austrian Film
Author: Robert von Dassanowsky
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857452320
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Out of a film culture originally starved of funds have emerged rich and eclectic works by film-makers that are now achieving the international recognition that they deserve: Barbara Albert, Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl, and Stefan Ruzowitzky, to give four examples. This comprehensive critical anthology, by leading scholars of Austrian film, is intended to introduce and make accessible this much under-represented phenomenon. Although the book covers the full development of the Austrian new wave it focuses on the period that has brought it global attention: 1998 to the present. New Austrian Film is the only book currently available on this topic and will be an essential reference work for academics, students and filmmakers, interested in modern Austrian film.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857452320
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Out of a film culture originally starved of funds have emerged rich and eclectic works by film-makers that are now achieving the international recognition that they deserve: Barbara Albert, Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl, and Stefan Ruzowitzky, to give four examples. This comprehensive critical anthology, by leading scholars of Austrian film, is intended to introduce and make accessible this much under-represented phenomenon. Although the book covers the full development of the Austrian new wave it focuses on the period that has brought it global attention: 1998 to the present. New Austrian Film is the only book currently available on this topic and will be an essential reference work for academics, students and filmmakers, interested in modern Austrian film.