Author: William W. FrenchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Maryat Lee's EcoTheater
Author: William W. FrenchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Maryat Lee's EcoTheater
Author: William FrenchPublisher:
ISBN: 9781072306429
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Although perhaps best known now for her long friendship and correspondence with the writer Flannery O'Connor, Maryat Lee (1923-1989) was a highly regarded playwright, first in New York City and later in Appalachia, where she created EcoTheater. In both cases she used non-professional performers and events and people from their own lives to create a fresh and enthralling sense of story. As she wrote in the magazine that eventually became Whole Earth Review, "The words 'acting' and 'actor' have an association with pretension for most people outside the theater. I want something different. I just want people simply, and not so simply, to be themselves." Her plays evolved from the real lives of junkies (Dope!), gay urban life when it wasn't mentioned in public (After the Fashion Show), and the the legend of John Henry--with a female lead. From the Soul and Latin Theater of Harlem in the 1950's to remote West Virginia in the 70's and 80's, her passion for immediacy and real connection in theater shine through Professor Bill French's book.
Humanities Index
Author: Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
Who's who in the South and Southwest
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
A biographical dictionary of noteworthy men and women of the Southern and Southwestern States.
Dance Company Grants
Author: Flannery
Author: Brad GoochPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316040657
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in 1952. Her fierce, sometimes comic novels and stories reflected the darkly funny, vibrant, and theologically sophisticated woman who wrote them. Brad Gooch brings to life O'Connor's significant friendships -- with Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, Walker Percy, and James Dickey among others -- and her deeply felt convictions, as expressed in her communications with Thomas Merton, Elizabeth Bishop, and Betty Hester. Hester was famously known as "A" in O'Connor's collected letters, The Habit of Being, and a large cache of correspondence to her from O'Connor was made available to scholars, including Brad Gooch, in 2006. O'Connor's capacity to live fully -- despite the chronic disease that eventually confined her to her mother's farm in Georgia -- is illuminated in this engaging and authoritative biography. Praise for Flannery: "Flannery O'Connor, one of the best American writers of short fiction, has found her ideal biographer in Brad Gooch. With elegance and fairness, Gooch deals with the sensitive areas of race and religion in O'Connor's life. He also takes us back to those heady days after the war when O'Connor studied creative writing at Iowa. There is much that is new in this book, but, more important, everything is presented in a strong, clear light."-Edmund White "This splendid biography gives us no saint or martyr but the story of a gifted and complicated woman, bent on making the best of the difficult hand fate has dealt her, whether it is with grit and humor or with an abiding desire to make palpable to readers the terrible mystery of God's grace."-Frances Kiernan, author of Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy "A good biographer is hard to find. Brad Gooch is not merely good-he is extraordinary. Blessed with the eye and ear of a novelist, he has composed the life that admirers of the fierce and hilarious Georgia genius have long been hoping for."-Joel Conarroe, President Emeritus, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
Four Men and a Monster
Author: Maryat LeePublisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573642074
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Solo Recitalists
Author: The Amis Collection
Author: Kingsley AmisPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141961767
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
'Amis has no faults. He is clever, witty, ironical' Guardian What advice can one give a green young author? What purpose do literary prizes serve? Where on earth can a man get a decent bite to eat? This entertaining collection is vintage Kingsley Amis, revealing him at his most robust and incisive, cutting a swathe through such subjects as writers and writing, 'Abroad', eating and drinking, music, language and education. He turns a clear and critical eye on Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell, Anthony Burgess, Ian Fleming and Philip Larkin, and does not spare their potential readers in 'Sod the Public: A Consumer's Guide'. In typically razor-sharp, wicked and witty prose, Amis tackles the culture and conceits of his era.