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Improvisation for the Theater
A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques
Häftad, 1999
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245 kr
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The thoroughly revised third edition of the bible of improvisational theater.Viola Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the very nature and practice of modern theater. The first two editions of Improvisation for the Theater sold more than 100,000 copies and inspired actors, directors, …
Dialogues in Paradise
Av Xue Can
Häftad, 1989
235 kr
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The thirteen stories of "Dialogues in Paradise "are eloquent in a way the West associates with both the modern and the ancient: the dark oracles of Aeschylus and Sophocles, the paranoid mystery of Kafka, the moving stream of Woolf. The work of Can Xue (a pseudonym of Changsa writer Deng Xiao-hua) …
Myth of Analysis
Häftad, 1998
320 kr
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In this work, acclaimed Jungian James Hillman examines the concepts of myth, insights, eros, body, and the mytheme of female inferiority, as well as the need for the freedom to imagine and to feel psychic reality. By examining these ideas, and the role they have played both in and outside of the …
Collected Stories
Av Bruno Schulz
Häftad, 2018
334 kr
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Collected Stories is an authoritative new translation of the complete fiction of Bruno Schulz, whose work has influenced writers as various as Salman Rushdie, Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran Foer, Philip Roth, Danilo Kiš, and Roberto Bolaño.Schulz’s prose is renowned for its originality. Set largely …
Theater Games for the Lone Actor
A Handbook
Av Viola Spolin
Häftad, 2001
226 kr
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For the first time, a Spolin guide for the individual actor to side-coach themselvesViola Spolin's Theater Games for the Lone Actor offers theater games and side coaching for the solo player. This handbook presents more than forty exercises that allow actors to side coach themselves at home, in …
Foundations of Arithmetic
Häftad, 1980
261 kr
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The Foundations of Arithmetic is undoubtedly the best introduction to Frege's thought; it is here that Frege expounds the central notions of his philosophy, subjecting the views of his predecessors and contemporaries to devastating analysis. The book represents the first philosophically sound …
Anthropology of Music
Häftad, 1964
342 kr
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In this highly praised and seminal work, Alan Merriam demonstrates that music is a social behavior—one worthy and available to study through the methods of anthropology. In it, he convincingly argues that ethnomusicology, by definition, cannot separate the sound-analysis of music from its cultural …
Limited Inc
Av Jacques Derrida, Gerald Graff
Häftad, 1988
247 kr
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Limited Inc is a major work in the philosophy of language by the celebrated French thinker Jacques Derrida. The book's two essays, "Limited Inc" and "Signature Event Context," constitute key statements of the Derridean theory of deconstruction. They are the clearest exposition to be found of …
Collected Writings on Education and Drama
Av Dorothy Heathcote, Liz Johnson m. fl.
Häftad, 1991
398 kr
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What does it mean to be "an excellent teacher?" To Dorothy Heathcote, one of this century's most respected educational innovators, it means seeing one's pupils as they really are, shunning labels and stereotypes. It means taking risks: putting aside one's comfortable, doctrinaire role and …
Information for Foreigners
Three Plays
Av Griselda Gambaro, Marguerite Feitlowitz
Häftad, 1992
398 kr
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One of Latin America's most important and prolific writers, Griselda Gambaro has focused on the dynamics of repression, complicity, and violence--specifically, the terror of violent regimes and their devastating effects on the moral framework of society. Information for Foreigners is a drama of …
Metamorphoses Play
Av Mary Zimmerman, Ovid
Häftad, 2002
252 kr
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This play is based on Ovid's 15-volume work of transformation myths. Positioned in and around a large pool on the stage, the characters enact Zimmerman's adaptations of Ovid's tales, juxtaposing the ancient and the contemporary in both language and image. The tone of the drama likewise echoes the …
Stalin's Romeo Spy
The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB's Most Daring Operative
Inbunden, 2010
427 kr
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Sailor, painter, doctor, lawyer, polyglot, and writer, Dmitri Bystrolyotov (1901 - 75) led a life that might seem far-fetched for a spy novel, yet here the truth is stranger than fiction. The result of a thirty-five-year journey that started with a private meeting between the author and …
Selected Plays
Av Alice Childress, Kathy A. Perkins
Häftad, 2011
382 kr
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As the first African American woman to have a play professionally produced in New York City (Gold Through the Trees, in 1952) and the first woman to win an Obie for Best Play (for Trouble in Mind, in 1956), Alice Childress occupies an important but surprisingly under-recognized place in American …
Three Plays
Melissa Arctic, Orange Flower Water, and the Pavilion
Av Craig Wright
Häftad, 2012
284 kr
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Craig Wright is one of the most widely produced, consistently entertaining playwrights of his generation. The three plays gathered in this volume—Melissa Arctic (winner of the 2005 Helen Hayes Award), Orange Flower Water, and The Pavilion—are all set in the fictional town of Pine City, Minnesota. …
Venus in Fur
A Play
Av David Ives
Häftad, 2011
235 kr
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A young playwright, Thomas, has written an adaptation of the 1870 novel Venus in Fur by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (after whom the term “masochism” was coined); the novel is the story of an obsessive adulterous relationship between a man and the mistress to whom he becomes enslaved. At the end of a …
Nether
A Play
Häftad, 2014
235 kr
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The Nether, a daring examination of moral responsibility in virtual worlds, opens with a familiar interrogation scene given a technological twist. As Detective Morris, an investigator of the Nether's online offerings, questions Mr. Sims about his activities in a role-playing realm so realistic it …
Borrowed Bones
New Poems from the Poet Laureate of Los Angeles
Häftad, 2016
170 kr
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This chapbook collection offers new poems from the prolific career of a community leader, activist, and healer. Luis J. Rodríguez’s work asks profound questions of us as readers and fellow humans, such as, ""If society cooperates, can we nurture the full / and healthy development of everyone?"" In …
Jews and Ukrainians in Russia's Literary Borderlands
From the Shtetl Fair to the Petersburg Bookshop
Häftad, 2016
577 kr
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Studies of eastern European literature have largely confined themselves to a single language, culture, or nationality. In this highly original book, Glaser reveals the rich cultural exchange among writers working in Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish in the Ukrainian territories, from Nikolai Gogol's …
Intimations
The Cinema of Wojciech Has
Häftad, 2017
367 kr
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In this first study in English of a master of Polish cinema, Annette Insdorf explores Has's thirteen feature films with the same deep insight of her groundbreaking book on Krzysztof Kieslowski, Double Lives, Second Chances (Northwestern, 2013).Wojciech Has's films are still less known outside of …
Nowhere to Arrive
Poems
Av Jenny Xie
Häftad, 2017
138 kr
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Nowhere to Arrive takes as its subjects the whiplash of travel, the shuttling between disparate places and climes, and an unremitting sense of dislocation. These poems court the tension between the familiar and the foreign, between the self as distinct and the self as illusory. They look plainly at …
Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism
Häftad, 2017
430 kr
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Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism traces how Latinx theater in the United States has engaged with the policies, procedures, and outcomes of neoliberal economics in the Americas from the 1970s to the present.Patricia Ybarra examines IMF interventions, NAFTA, shifts in immigration policy, …
Hidden Tapestry
Jan Yoors, His Two Wives, and the War That Made Them One
Av Debra Dean
Häftad, 2018
226 kr
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Hidden Tapestry reveals the unforgettable story of Flemish American artist Jan Yoors—childhood vagabond, wartime resistance fighter, and polyamorous urban bohemian. At the peak of his fame in the 1970s, Yoors’s photographs and vast tapestries inspired a dedicated following in his adopted Manhattan. …
Hallaj
Poems of a Sufi Martyr
Häftad, 2018
236 kr
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Hallaj is the first authoritative translation of the Arabic poetry of Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj, an early Sufi mystic. Despite his execution in Baghdad in 922 and the subsequent suppression of his work, Hallaj left an enduring literary and spiritual legacy that continues to inspire readers around …
South Side Venus
The Legacy of Margaret Burroughs
Häftad, 2018
218 kr
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The extraordinarily productive life of curator, artist, and activist Margaret Burroughs was largely rooted in her work to establish and sustain two significant institutions in Chicago: the South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC), founded in 1940, and the DuSable Museum of African American History, …
Death in Harlem
A Novel
Häftad, 2019
236 kr
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In A Death in Harlem, famed scholar Karla Holloway weaves a mystery in the bon vivant world of the Harlem Renaissance. Taking as her point of departure the tantalizingly ambiguous “death by misadventure” at the climax of Nella Larsen’s 1929 best-selling novel Passing, Holloway takes readers back to …
Blackademic Life
Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual
Häftad, 2019
481 kr
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The Blackademic Life critically examines academic fictions produced by black writers. In it, Lavelle Porter evaluates the depiction of academic and campus life in literature as a space for black writers to produce counternarratives that celebrate the potentials of black intelligence and argue for …
50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology
Av Gail Weiss, Gayle Salamon m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
446 kr
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Phenomenology, the philosophical method that seeks to uncover the taken-for-granted presuppositions, habits, and norms that structure everyday experience, is increasingly framed by ethical and political concerns. Critical phenomenology foregrounds experiences of marginalization, oppression, and …
Biological Modernism
The New Human in Weimar Culture
Häftad, 2019
481 kr
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Biological Modernism identifies an intellectual current in the Weimar Republic that drew on biology, organicism, vitalism, and other discourses associated with living nature in order to redefine the human being for a modern, technological age. Contrary to the assumption common to scholarship on the …
Furious Flower
Seeding the Future of African American Poetry
Av Joanne V. Gabbin, Lauren K. Alleyne
Häftad, 2019
448 kr
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Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry is an anthology of poems by more than a hundred award-winning poets, including Jericho Brown, Tracy K. Smith, and Justin Philip Reed, combined with themed essays on poetics from celebrated scholars such as Kwame Dawes, Evie Shockley, and …
Wolf at the End of the Block
A Play
Av Ike Holter
Häftad, 2020
187 kr
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Ike Holter’s taut and fast-paced The Wolf at the End of the Block tells the story of a young Latino named Alejandro, known as Abe, who seeks justice after being beaten by a Chicago policeman. A mystery that envelops Abe, his protective sister, and his boss, as well as the police department and a …
