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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jochen achilles”
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  • The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights

    by Tom Adler, Professor Scott T. Cummings, Jochen Achilles, Dr. Ken Urban, Klaus Benesch, Russell Vandenbroucke, James Fisher, Christopher Innes, Christopher Innes, Prof. Toby Zinman0, Susan Abbotson1, Annalisa Brugnoli2, Ilka Saal3, Aurélia Sanchez4, Deborah Geis5, Annette J. Saddik6, Jorge Huerta7, Joanna Mansbridge8, Pia Wiegmink9, Frazer Lively0, Sandra G. Shannon1, Birgit Daewes2, Dr. Peter Paul Schnierer3, Dr. Peter Paul Schnierer5, Prof. Martin Middeke6, Prof. Martin Middeke8, Katherine Weiss9, Professor Kerstin Schmidt0, Dr. Matthew C. Roudané2, Professor Jill S. Dolan3 ...
    Series series Guides to Contemporary Drama
    Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to emerge from America over the last fifty years.This authoritative guide leads you through the work of 25 major contemporary American playwrights, discussing more than 140 plays in detail. Written by a ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Liminality and the Short Story

    Boundary Crossings in American, Canadian, and British Writing

    Edited by Jochen Achilles, Ina Bergmann ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book is a study of the short story, one of the widest taught genres in English literature, from an innovative methodological perspective. Both liminality and the short story are well-researched phenomena, but the combination of both is not frequent. This book discusses the relevance of the concept of liminality for the short story genre and for short story cycles, emphasizing theoretical ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    **TONY AWARD WINNER • An explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb.“Endlessly fascinating…. The most invigorating and ingenious play of ideas in many a year…. An electrifying work of art.” —Ben Brantley, The New York Times**In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a clandestine trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish ... Read more

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  • The Country Wife and Other Plays

    by William Wycherley ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Wycherley's four comedies are admired for their satirical wit, farcical humour, vivid characterization, and social criticism.Love in a Wood, a lively comedy of intrigue, established him as a brilliant new dramatist.The Gentleman Dancing-Master, in contrast, disappointed contemporary audiences, but the central relationship between Hippolyta and Gerrard features an original and sympathetic study of ... Read more

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  • What A Girl Wants

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    by Third Cousins, Emma Reid ...
    Series Book 1 - Alpha Billionaire Romance Series
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  • Saint Joan of the Stockyards

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    Translated by Ralph Manheim ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    In this version of the story of Joan of Arc, Brecht transforms her into 'Joan Dark', a member of the 'Black Straw Hats' (a Salvation Army-like group) in twentieth century Chicago. The play charts Joan's battle with Pierpont Mauler, the unctuous owner of a meat-packing plant. Like her predecessor, Joan is a doomed woman, a martyr and (initially, at least) an innocent in a world of strike-breakers, ... Read more

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    by Mr James Graham ...
    Series series Modern Plays
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  • Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    In this clear and detailed reading guide, we’ve done all the hard work for you!Waiting for Godot is one of Samuel Beckett’s most famous plays. It shows how Vladimir and Estragon wait for a mysterious character called Godot. Nothing happens aside from the dialogue between the two protagonists, yet the implications of this very successful play are numerous.Find out everything you need to know about ... Read more

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  • The Death of Olivier Becaille (Unabridged)

    by Émile Zola ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: “The Death of Olivier Becaille (Unabridged)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Zola’s horrific short story depicts a man, Olivier Becaille, in a temporary coma and paralytic state. This condition leads his wife to believe he is dead. It even fools the doctor. Funeral and burial arrangements are made and carried out. Readers ... Read more

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  • George Eliot Six Pack - Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, The Mill on the Floss and Adam Bede

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    This illustrated anthology of George Eliot novels includes Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, The Mill on the Floss and Adam Bede. ... Read more

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  • The Life of Monsieur de Molière

    A Portrait by Mikhail Bulgakov

    by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov ...
    Translated by Mirra Ginsburg ...
    This portrait of Molière, by Mikhail Bulgakov, goes far beyond mere biography. The Russian master brings a kindred spirit vividly to life in this novelistic story of art and the struggle it demands.Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Life of Monsieur de Moliere is a fascinating portrait of the great French seventeenth-century satirist by one of the great Russian satirists of our own century. For Bulgakov, ... Read more

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