Author: Publisher: Branden Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Five Modern Plays
Author: Five Modern Plays
Author: Edmund R. BrownPublisher: Branden Books
ISBN: 9780828314350
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Dreamy Kid (3 women 1 boy); Farewell Supper (1 woman 3 men); Lost Silk Hat (5 men); Sister's Tragedy (3 women 2 men); Intruder (3 men 5 women).
Five Modern No Plays
Author: Yukio MishimaPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307473112
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Japanese No drama is one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world. The late Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's outstanding post-war writers, infused new life into the form by using it for plays that preserve the style and inner spirit of No and are at the same time so modern, so direct, and intelligible that they could, as he suggested, be played on a bench in Central Park. Here are five of his No plays, stunning in their contemporary nature and relevance—and finally made available again for readers to enjoy.
Five Modern Scandinavian Plays
Author: Five Modern Japanese Novelists
Author: Donald KeenePublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231507496
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
The New Yorker has called Donald Keene "America's preeminent scholar of Japanese literature." Now he presents a new book that serves as both a superb introduction to modern Japanese fiction and a memoir of his own lifelong love affair with Japanese literature and culture. Five Modern Japanese Novelistsprofiles five prominent writers whom Donald Keene knew personally: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, Abe Kobo, and Shiba Ryotaro. Keene masterfully blends vignettes describing his personal encounters with these famous men with autobiographical observations and his trademark learned literary and cultural analysis. Keene opens with a confession: before arriving in Japan in 1953, despite having taught Japanese for several years at Cambridge, he knew the name of only one living Japanese writer: Tanizaki. Keene's training in classical Japanese literature and fluency in the language proved marvelous preparation, though, for the journey of literary discovery that began with that first trip to Japan, as he came into contact, sometimes quite fortuitously, with the genius of a generation. It is a journey that will fascinate experts and newcomers alike
Transnationalism and Translation in Modern Chinese, English, French and Japanese Literatures
Author: Ryan JohnsonPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 178527435X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The theory of “literary worlds” has become increasingly important in comparative and world literatures. But how are the often-contradictory elements of Eastern and Western literatures to cohere in the new worlds such contact creates? Drawing on the latest work in philosophical logic and analytic Asian philosophy, this monograph proposes a new model of literary worlds that is best suited to comparative literature dealing with Western and East Asian traditions. Unlike much discussion of world literature anchored in North American traditions, featured here is the transnational work of artists, philosophers, and poets writing in English, French, Japanese and Mandarin in the twentieth century. Rather than imposing sharp borders, this book suggests that vague boundaries link Eastern and Western literary works and traditions, and that degrees of distance can better help us to see the multiple dimensions that both distinguish and join together literary worlds East and West. As such, it enables us to grasp not only how East Asian and Western writers translate one another’s works into their own languages and traditions, but also how modern writers East and West modify their own traditions in order to make them fit in the new constellation of literary worlds brought about by the complex flow of literary information across twentieth-century Eurasia.
A Southern Life
Author: Paul GreenPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807821053
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
A selection of letters that sums up the life of a literary Southerner, who veered away from the commonly held views of his segregated town
Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties
Author: Jen SilvermanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786824264
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
In Collective Rage, the lives of five very different New York women named Betty collide at the intersection of anger, sex and “theat-ah.” As they meet, fall in love, rehearse, revel and rage, they realise that they've been stuck reading the same scripts for far too long. They all come from different backgrounds, and are bored or angry about different things, but the Betty's - each one numbered 1-5 - come together to rehearse a new version of Pyramus and Thisbe, the play within a play in A Midsummer Night's Dream. What follows are discoveries, transformations and raucous comedy. Hitting the ring with an electrifying soundtrack, looks to kill and spectacular routines, this outrageous comedy packs the punch to shatter lacquered femininity into a thousand glittering pieces. Strongly influenced by cabaret and female drag, this exquisite rejection of shame and stereotype will punch you in the gut, break your heart and then take you dancing. Collective Rage had its UK premiere at the Southwark Playhouse.
Plays
Author: Marian D. Campbell... Twentieth Century Dramas
Author: Florence Elizabeth FoshayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description