Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance - Böcker

Places the performative gesture at the point of intersection between literature, theatre and cinema This new study examines the representation of gesture in modernist writing, performance and cinema. Deploying a new theoretical term, 'the speech-g...

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Examines the centrality of Greek tragedy for modernist performance Examines the centrality of Greek tragedy for modernist performance Analyses how Hellenism becomes a mode of theatricality Looks at the interface between theatricality and performat...

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A study of a key modernist form, its theory, practice and legacyWhat do we know today about the theatrical ferment caused by the scandalous group of Russian writers, artists, musicians and theatre makers who called themselves 'Futurists'? What can...

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This book examines the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in the modernist experiments in performance. Through a series of events / instances / poses that engage visual, literary and performing...

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Modernism and the Theatre of the Baroque fashions an independent aesthetic for modernist writers and texts that challenges many high modernist qualities promoted by James Joyce and T. S. Eliot.

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Examines the intersection of Samuel Beckett's thirty-second playlet Breath with the visual artsSamuel Beckett, one of the most prominent playwrights of the twentieth century, wrote a thirty-second playlet for the stage that does not include actors...

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Reveals the untold story of Irish drama's engagement with modernity's sexual and social revolutions The first modern Irish playwrights emerged in London in the 1890s, at the intersection of a rising international socialist movement and a new campa...

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Through both theoretical contributions and empirically-orientated analyses, this book provides insights into how theories and practices of multicultural citizenship and migrant integration are adapting and might adapt to the new, more dynamic but ...

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This collection of 11 essays form a new examination of Whitehead's Barbour-Page lectures, which were published as the book Symbolism: Its Meaning and Effect in 1927. Leading Whitehead scholars give you exciting insights into the contemporary impli...

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First full-scale thematic analysis of Pina Bausch's 'Tanztheater', critically evaluating the impact of modernist theatre on her choreographic methodThis book presents a new reading of Pina Bausch's dance theatre, orienting it within an internation...

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First full-scale thematic analysis of Pina Bausch's Tanztheater, critically evaluating the impact of modernist theatre on her choreographic method This book presents a new reading of Pina Bausch's dance theatre, orienting it within an internationa...

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Investigates the explosive phenomenon of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) from a transatlantic perspective Offers the first comparative study of the history, performances and politics of the FTP in a book form Contributes¿significantly to the stu...

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Engaging and informative, this book presents a comparative study of the history, performances and politics of the FTP by drawing and exposing further links between American modernism and its European counterparts. It concentrates predominantly on ...

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Reveals the untold story of Irish drama's engagement with modernity's sexual and social revolutions The first modern Irish playwrights emerged in London in the 1890s, at the intersection of a rising international socialist movement and a new campa...

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First comparative study to address the rediscovery of baroque aesthetic in modernism Did you know that seventeenth-century philosophy influenced dance theory and evolutionary science during the modernist period? Or that in England, Italy and Germa...

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Examines the intersection of Samuel Beckett's thirty-second playlet Breath with the visual arts Samuel Beckett, one of the most prominent playwrights of the twentieth century, wrote a thirty-second playlet for the stage that does not include actor...

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A study of a key modernist form, its theory, practice and legacy What do we know today about the theatrical ferment caused by the scandalous group of Russian writers, artists, musicians and theatre makers who called themselves 'Futurists'? What ca...

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Analyses the expansion of head and body masking from nineteenth-century Paris to its international maturity in contemporary culture Looks at the presence and development of masquerade in the modernist era - via performance history - with parallel ...

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Analyses the expansion of head and body masking from nineteenth-century Paris to its international maturity in contemporary culture Looks at the presence and development of masquerade in the modernist era - via performance history - with parallel ...

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This book explores Salome's quintessential veiled dance through readings of fictional and poetic texts, dramatic productions, dance performances and silent films, arguing for the central place of this dancer - and her many interpreters - to the wi...

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An account of Salome's dance and its centrality within modernist performance Offers a new account of the Salome myth that underlines its centrality to modernist performance across different genres and forms, including drama, dance, and silent film...

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Places the performative gesture at the point of intersection between literature, theatre and cinema This new study examines the representation of gesture in modernist writing, performance and cinema. Deploying a new theoretical term, 'the speech-g...

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