Author: John STYLES (D.D.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
An Essay on the Character and Influence of the Stage, etc
Author: John STYLES (D.D.)A Catalogue of the Allen A. Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library)Publisher: Boston : The Trustees
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
History of Europe from the commencement of the French Revolution, etc
Author: Sir Archibald ALISONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Why I Write
Author: George OrwellPublisher: Renard Press Ltd
ISBN: 1913724263
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
B-M, pages 401-802
Author: Brooklyn LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of the City of Brooklyn
Author: A Collection of Old and Rare Books of ... English Literature ...
Author: Pickering & ChattoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
Book Description
Character's Theater
Author: Lisa A. FreemanPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201949
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
If the whole world acted the player, how did the player act the world? In Character's Theater, Lisa A. Freeman uses this question to test recent critical discussion of eighteenth-century literature and culture. Much current work, she observes, focuses on the concept of theatricality as both the governing metaphor of social life and a primary filter of psychic perception. Hume's "theater of the mind," Adam Smith's "impartial spectator," and Diderot's "tableaux" are all invoked by theorists to describe a process whereby the private individual comes to internalize theatrical logic and apprehend the self as other. To them theatricality is a critical mechanism of modern subjectivity but one that needs to be concealed if the subject's stability is to be maintained. Finding that much of this discussion about the "Age of the Spectator" has been conducted without reference to the play texts or actual theatrical practice, Freeman turns to drama and discovers a dynamic model of identity based on eighteenth-century conceptualizations of character. In contrast to the novel, which cultivated psychological tensions between private interiority and public show, dramatic characters in the eighteenth century experienced no private thoughts. The theater of the eighteenth century was not a theater of absorption but rather a theater of interaction, where what was monitored was not the depth of character, as in the novel, but the arc of a genre over the course of a series of discontinuous acts. In a genre-by-genre analysis of plays about plays, tragedy, comedies of manners, humours, and intrigue, and sentimental comedy, Freeman offers an interpretive account of eighteenth-century drama and its cultural work and demonstrates that by deploying an alternative model of identity, theater marked a site of resistance to the rise of the subject and to the ideological conformity enforced through that identity formation.
Catalogue...authors, Titles, Subjects, and Classes
Author: Brooklyn Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Brooklyn: D-M
Author: Mercantile Library Association of BrooklynPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description