Author: Eugène Ionesco
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Languages : en
Pages : 144
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The man with the luggage. The duel. Double act. Why do I write ?
Author: Eugène Ionesco
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness
Author: Hannah Simpson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192863266
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his work: the affective power of the human body; the doubtful capacity of language as a means of communication; the aesthetic and ethical functioning of the theatre medium; and the vexed question of intersubjective empathy. Alongside the wartime and post-war plays of fellow Francophone writers Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco, Pablo Picasso, and Marguerite Duras, this study resituates Beckett's early plays in a new conceptualising of le théâtre du témoin or a 'theatre of the witness'. These are plays concerned with the epistemological and ethical uncertainties of witnessing another's pain, rather than with the sufferer's own direct experience. They raise troubling questions about our capacity to comprehend and respond to another being's pain. Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework of extant criticism, recorded historical audience response, theatre and affect theory, and medical understandings of bodily pain, Hannah Simpson argues that these plays do not offer any easily negotiable encounter with physical suffering, pushing us to recognise the very 'otherness' of another being's pain, even as it invades our own affective sphere. In place of any comforting transcendence or redemption of endured pain, they offer a starkly sceptical, even pessimistic probing of what it is to witness another's suffering.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192863266
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his work: the affective power of the human body; the doubtful capacity of language as a means of communication; the aesthetic and ethical functioning of the theatre medium; and the vexed question of intersubjective empathy. Alongside the wartime and post-war plays of fellow Francophone writers Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco, Pablo Picasso, and Marguerite Duras, this study resituates Beckett's early plays in a new conceptualising of le théâtre du témoin or a 'theatre of the witness'. These are plays concerned with the epistemological and ethical uncertainties of witnessing another's pain, rather than with the sufferer's own direct experience. They raise troubling questions about our capacity to comprehend and respond to another being's pain. Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework of extant criticism, recorded historical audience response, theatre and affect theory, and medical understandings of bodily pain, Hannah Simpson argues that these plays do not offer any easily negotiable encounter with physical suffering, pushing us to recognise the very 'otherness' of another being's pain, even as it invades our own affective sphere. In place of any comforting transcendence or redemption of endured pain, they offer a starkly sceptical, even pessimistic probing of what it is to witness another's suffering.
Drama
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Publisher:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Plays
Author: Eugène Ionesco
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Journeys among the dead (themes and variations)
Author: Eugène Ionesco
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Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Languages : en
Pages : 72
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No End of Blame
Author: Howard Barker
Publisher: Calder Publications Limited
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
A Hungarian artist emigrates first to the Soviet Union and finally to England, where he becomes a cartoonist on a London daily newspaper. As in Russia, so in England, Bela Veracek clashes with authority in the form of government officials during the World War 2 and a titled newspaper proprietor in the 1960s.
Publisher: Calder Publications Limited
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
A Hungarian artist emigrates first to the Soviet Union and finally to England, where he becomes a cartoonist on a London daily newspaper. As in Russia, so in England, Bela Veracek clashes with authority in the form of government officials during the World War 2 and a titled newspaper proprietor in the 1960s.
Twentieth-century French Dramatists
Author: Mary Anne O'Neil
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Essays on twentieth-century French playwrights who were largely influenced by non-French traditions, during the greatest age of French theater since the mid 1700s. French drama of the twentieth-century was cosmopolitan, experimental and eclectic and attempted to appeal to a wider audience than in the past. Dramatists came not only from Paris but from the provinces and the French states of the Caribbean as well as from Francophone countries such as Belgium.
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Essays on twentieth-century French playwrights who were largely influenced by non-French traditions, during the greatest age of French theater since the mid 1700s. French drama of the twentieth-century was cosmopolitan, experimental and eclectic and attempted to appeal to a wider audience than in the past. Dramatists came not only from Paris but from the provinces and the French states of the Caribbean as well as from Francophone countries such as Belgium.
Reference Guide to World Literature
Author: Tom Pendergast
Publisher: Saint James Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1174
Book Description
Covers writers from the ancient Greeks to 20th-century authors. Includes biographical-bibliographical entries on nearly 500 writers and approximately 550 entries focusing on significant works of world literature. Each author entry provides a detailed overview of the writer's life and works. Work entries cover a particular piece of world literature in detail.
Publisher: Saint James Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1174
Book Description
Covers writers from the ancient Greeks to 20th-century authors. Includes biographical-bibliographical entries on nearly 500 writers and approximately 550 entries focusing on significant works of world literature. Each author entry provides a detailed overview of the writer's life and works. Work entries cover a particular piece of world literature in detail.
Journeys Among the Dead
Author: Eugène Ionesco
Publisher: London : J. Calder ; New York : Riverrun Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher: London : J. Calder ; New York : Riverrun Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Gambit
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Publisher:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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