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“alan ackerman”

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  • Seeing Things

    From Shakespeare to Pixar

    by Alan Ackerman ...
    A technological revolution has changed the way we see things. The storytelling media employed by Pixar Animation Studios, Samuel Beckett, and William Shakespeare differ greatly, yet these creators share a collective fascination with the nebulous boundary between material objects and our imaginative selves. How do the acts of seeing and believing remain linked? Alan Ackerman charts the dynamic ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America

    by Alan Ackerman ...

    $28.99 USD

  • Reader in Comedy

    An Anthology of Theory and Criticism

    Edited by Magda Romanska, Prof. Alan Ackerman ...
    This unique anthology presents a selection of over seventy of the most important historical essays on comedy, ranging from antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged chronologically. Across its span it traces the development of comic theory, highlighting the relationships between comedy, politics, economics, philosophy, religion, and other arts and genres. Students of ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller

    All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, Broken Glass

    by Prof. Alan Ackerman, Prof. Alan Ackerman, Susan C. W. Abbotson, Stephen Marino, Prof. Toby Zinman, Prof. Enoch Brater ...
    A Student Handbook to the Plays of Arthur Miller provides the essential guide to Miller's most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on five of Miller's plays: All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge and Broken Glass. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that whether ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Reading Modern Drama

    Edited by Alan Ackerman ...
    Exploring the relationship between dramatic language and its theatrical aspects, Reading Modern Drama provides an accessible entry point for general readers and academics into the world of contemporary theatre scholarship. This collection promotes the use of diverse perspectives and critical methods to explore the common theme of language as well as the continued relevance of modern drama in our ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    Edited by Michael Levenson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion has long been a standard introduction to the field. This second edition is updated and enhanced with four new chapters, addressing the key themes being researched, taught and studied in modernism. Its interdisciplinary approach is central to its success as it brings together readings of the many varieties of modernism. Chapters address the major literary genres, the intellectual, ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Academic Instincts

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. Academic Instincts discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in recent debates about the humanities: the relation between "amateurs" and "professionals," the ... Read more

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  • Modern Drama

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The story of modern drama is a tale of extremes, testing both audiences and actors to their limits through hostility and contrarianism. Spanning 1880 to the present, Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr shows how truly international a phenomenon modern drama has become, and how vibrant and diverse in both text and performance. This Very Short Introduction explores the major developments of modern drama, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art

    by Professor Darren Hudson Hick ...
    'Place in garden, lawn, to beautify landscape.'When Don Featherstone's plastic pink flamingos were first advertised in the 1957 Sears catalogue, these were the instructions. The flamingos are placed on the cover of this book for another reason: to start us asking questions. That's where philosophy always begins.Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art is written to introduce students to a ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Theatre Audiences

    by Susan Bennett ...
    Susan Bennett's highly successful Theatre Audiences is a unique full-length study of the audience as cultural phenomenon, which looks at both theories of spectatorship and the practice of different theatres and their audiences.Published here in a brand new updated edition, Theatre Audiences now includes:• a new preface by the author• a stunning extra chapter on intercultural theatre• a revised up ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Translator's Invisibility

    A History of Translation

    by Lawrence Venuti ...
    Series series Routledge Translation Classics
    Since publication over twenty years ago, The Translator’s Invisibility has provoked debate and controversy within the field of translation and become a classic text. Providing a fascinating account of the history of translation from the seventeenth century to the present day, Venuti shows how fluency prevailed over other translation strategies to shape the canon of foreign literatures in English ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

    Edited by Liedeke Plate, Anneke Smelik ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this doing of memory new questions about the cultural dimensions of memory arise: How do art objects and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD