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  • Fritz Bennewitz in India

    Intercultural Theatre with Brecht and Shakespeare

    by Joerg Esleben ...
    This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of the work of East German theatre director Fritz Bennewitz in India between 1970 and 1994. Joerg Esleben has gathered together many of Bennewitz’ own writings, most published for the first time, in which he reflects on his production of plays by Bertolt Brecht, Shakespeare, Goethe, Chekhov, and Volker Braun. By translating these writings into ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Bennewitz, Goethe, 'Faust'

    German and Intercultural Stagings

    by David G. John ...
    Series series German and European Studies
    Fritz Bennewitz (1926-1995) was the director-in-chief of East Germany's Weimar National Theatre. Extraordinary in his capacity for cultural and linguistic adjustment, he directed productions in twelve countries, always adapting shows to make them meaningful to local audiences. Notably, Bennewitz conducted stagings of Goethe's Faust in four different languages over a series of seven productions — ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Contemporary Landscapes of Contemplation

    Edited by Rebecca Krinke ...
    Contemplative landscape and contemplative space are familiar terms in the areas of design, landscape architecture and architecture. Krinke and her highly regarded contributors set out to explore definitions, theories, and case studies of contemplative landscapes. The contributors, Marc Treib, John Beardsley, Michael Singer, Lance Neckar, Heinrich Hermann and Rebecca Krinke have spent their careers ... Read more

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  • Letters to a Young Poet

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Charlie Louth ...
    The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a writer. The two never met, but over a period of several years Rilke wrote him these ten letters ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • A History of Japanese Literature

    From the Manyoshu to Modern Times

    by Shuichi Kato, Don Sanderson ...
    A new simplified edition translated by Don Sanderson. The original three-volume work, first published in 1979, has been revised specially as a single volume paperback which concentrates on the development of Japanese literature. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art

    by James Elkins ...
    Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? John Updike calls modern art "a religion assembled from the fragments of our daily life," but does that mean that contemporary art is spiritual? What might it mean to say that the art you make expresses your spiritual belief?On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art explores the curious disconnection between spirituality and current ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Gender, Religion, and Modern Hindi Drama

    by Diana Dimitrova ...
    Diana Dimitrova studies the representation of gender and religion in Hindi drama from its beginnings in the second half of the nineteenth century until the 1960s - the period when urban proscenium Hindi theatre, which originated under Western influence, matured and thrived. Her focus is on how different religious and mythological models pertaining to women have been reworked in Hindi drama and ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • The Grotowski Sourcebook

    Edited by RICHARD SCHECHNER, Lisa Wolford Wylam ...
    Series series Worlds of Performance
    This acclaimed volume is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of Jerzy Grotowski's long and multi-faceted career. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Grotowski's life and work. Edited by the two leading experts on Grotowski, the sourcebook features: *essays from the key performance theorists who worked with Grotowski, including Eugenio Barba, Peter Brook, Jan Kott, Eric ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • An Education in Happiness

    The Lessons of Hesse and Tagore

    by Flavia Arzeni ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    Happiness "is neither a privilege of the few, nor a fleeting state of mind: it is hidden behind a door that every person can open once they have found it, at the end of an arduous journey of self-discovery."The two Nobel Prize-winning writers Rabindranath Tagore and Hermann Hesse are arguably very different: one comes to us from the core of Indian culture, the other from the very heart of Old ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Talking About Films

    by Chidananda Das Gupta ...
    What is a good film? How does a screenplay relate to literature? Why is film censorship futile? Are film societies necessary? Does Bengali cinema still huddle under Satyajit Ray’s umbrella? Is the golden age of Indian cinema still to come? These are some of the questions raised and considered in this collection of essays by an author who draws upon his wide experience as a critic as well as a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Stanislavsky and Yoga

    by Sergei Tcherkasski ...
    Series series Routledge Icarus
    This book deals with one of the most important sources of the Stanislavsky System - Yoga, its practice and philosophy. Sergei Tcherkasski carefully collects records on Yoga in Stanislavsky's writings from different periods and discusses hidden references which are not explained by Stanislavsky himself due to the censorship in his day. Vivid examples of Yoga based training from the rehearsal ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Moon Rises from the Ganges

    My journey through Asian acting techniques

    by Eugenio Barba ...
    Series series Routledge Icarus
    A collection of texts by Eugenio Barba reconstructing the history of his relationships with the Asian classical theatres. Interweaving stories of journeys, meetings, anecdotes, reflections and technical descriptions, the author exposes the phases and changes in a passion that covers the fifty years of his professional trajectory. Little known or unpublished texts are included together with widely ... Read more

    $55.99 USD