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  • Theater Historiography

    Critical Interventions

    de Henry Carl Bial, Scott Magelssen ...
    Theater Historiography: Critical Interventions is a vital exploration of how we write, interpret, and understand the history of theater. Edited by Henry Bial and Scott Magelssen, this collection brings together leading voices in theater and performance studies to interrogate the methodologies, assumptions, and politics that shape the field. Each of the twenty-one essays offers a concise, thought ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Playing God

    The Bible on the Broadway Stage

    de Henry Carl Bial ...
    Biblical texts have inspired more than 100 Broadway plays and musicals, ranging from early spectacles like Ben-Hur (1899) to more familiar works such as Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar. What happens when a culture’s most sacred text enters its most commercial performance venue? Playing God focuses on eleven successful productions, as well as a few notable flops that highlight the difficulties ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

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  • Comparative Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Ben Hutchinson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at 'comparison' have defined the international agenda of literature. But ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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  • Being Cultured

    in defence of discrimination

    de Angus Kennedy ...
    Series Libro 19 - Societas
    Today culture is everywhere as maybe never before. We read culture reviews, watch culture shows, live in Cities of Culture, and witness the Cultural Olympiad. Government, museums and arts councils worry that we are not getting enough culture and shape policy around notions of art and culture for all. Access and inclusion are in. Difficulty and exclusivity out. In "Being Cultured: in defence of ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Academic Instincts

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $34.59 USD

  • History Beyond the Text

    A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

    Edición de Sarah Barber, Corinna Peniston-Bird ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
    Historians are increasingly looking beyond the traditional, and turning to visual, oral, aural, and virtual sources to inform their work. The challenges these sources pose require new skills of interpretation and require historians to consider alternative theoretical and practical approaches.In order to help historians successfully move beyond traditional text, Sarah Barber and Corinna Peniston ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Humble Theory

    Folklore's Grasp on Social Life

    de Dorothy Noyes ...
    A collection of fifteen essays exploring what folklore is, its history, and how it all connects to the world.Celebrated folklorist, Dorothy Noyes, offers an unforgettable glimpse of her craft and the many ways it matters. Folklore is the dirty linen of modernity, carrying the traces of working bodies and the worlds they live in. It is necessary but embarrassing, not easily blanched and made ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Canadian Modernists Meet

    Edición de Dean Irvine ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    The Canadian Modernists Meet is a collection of new critical essays on major and rediscovered Canadian writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. F.R. Scott's well-known poem 'The Canadian Authors Meet' sets the theme for the volume: a revisiting of English Canada's formative movements in modernist poetry, fiction, and drama. As did Scott's poem, Dean Irvine's collection raises questions - ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature

    de Richard J. Lane ...
    Series series Routledge Concise Histories of Literature
    The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature introduces the fiction, poetry and drama of Canada in its historical, political and cultural contexts.In this clear and structured volume, Richard Lane outlines:the history of Canadian literature from colonial times to the presentkey texts for Canadian First Peoples and the literature of Quebecthe impact of English translation, and the Canadian ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Novel

    Edición de Eric Bulson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This Companion focuses on the novel as a global genre with a 2,000-year history. The first section includes an examination of the various genres out of which it emerged (epic, history, romance, the picaresque) and the different ways in which fiction and realism (magical, hyper, and social) were developed in response to specific political, social, and economic forces. The second section focuses on ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature

    Edición de Brian McHale, Len Platt ...
    The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature offers a comprehensive survey of the field, from its emergence in the mid-twentieth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of postmodern writing that helps readers to understand how fiction and poetry, literary criticism, feminist theory, mass media, and the visual and fine arts have characterized the ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Nation and Narration

    Edición de Homi K. Bhabha ...
    Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'.From this seemingly impossibly metaphorical beginning, this volume confronts the realities of the concept of nationhood as it is lived and the profound ambivalence of language as it is written. From Gillian Beer's reading of Virginia Woolf, ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD