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5 produkter

1. 

   Tragicomedy and Contemporary Culture

   Play and Performance from Beckett to Shepard

   Av John Orr

   Inbunden, 1991

   1885 kr

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   This study examines the historical relationship between tragicomedy in the modernist theatre and the performative culture of Western consumer societies. While discussing a wide range of playwrights, it focusses specifically on the work of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Sam Shepard. Their plays, …

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   Habermas, Lyotard and the Concept of Justice

   Av S. Raffel

   Inbunden, 1992

   1639 kr

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   Habermas' recent work makes a major claim: to be able to determine what is the most rational thing to do. Postmodernists, notably Lyotard, have perhaps successfully belittled this claim as too positivistic. This book does not dispute the validity of the postmodern critique but it is concerned to …

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   Double in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

   Av J. Herdman

   Inbunden, 1990

   1259 kr

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   Duality and the divided mind have been a source of perennial fascination for literary artists and especially for novelists, and this is particularly true of the Romantic generation and their later nineteenth-century heirs. This book deals with the double, or Doppelgnger, as a dominant theme in the …

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   Tragicomedy and Contemporary Culture

   Play and Performance from Beckett to Shepard

   Av John Orr

   Häftad, 1991

   1885 kr

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   This study examines the historical relationship between tragicomedy in the modernist theatre and the performative culture of Western consumer societies. While discussing a wide range of playwrights, it focusses specifically on the work of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Sam Shepard. Their plays, …

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   Exalted Heroine and the Triumph of Order

   Class, Women and Religion in the English Novel, 1740–1800

   Av K. G. Hall

   Häftad, 1993

   596 kr

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   The first part of this book contains background information relevant to the 18th century English novel. The second part focuses upon seven diverse, yet representative, novels of the period, paying particular attention to the presentation of class, women and religion in the works examined.