Author: Eugène IonescoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Lesson
Author: Eugène IonescoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The chairs. The lesson. The bald prima donna. Jacques; or, Obedience
Author: Eugène IonescoPlays
Author: Eugène IonescoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The lesson. The chairs. The bald prima donna. Jacques; or, Obedience
Author: Eugène IonescoPlays Volume 1
Author: Eugene IonescoEugene Ionesco Plays
Author: Eugene IonescoSamuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness
Author: Hannah SimpsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192863266
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his work: the affective power of the human body; the doubtful capacity of language as a means of communication; the aesthetic and ethical functioning of the theatre medium; and the vexed question of intersubjective empathy. Alongside the wartime and post-war plays of fellow Francophone writers Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco, Pablo Picasso, and Marguerite Duras, this study resituates Beckett's early plays in a new conceptualising of le théâtre du témoin or a 'theatre of the witness'. These are plays concerned with the epistemological and ethical uncertainties of witnessing another's pain, rather than with the sufferer's own direct experience. They raise troubling questions about our capacity to comprehend and respond to another being's pain. Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework of extant criticism, recorded historical audience response, theatre and affect theory, and medical understandings of bodily pain, Hannah Simpson argues that these plays do not offer any easily negotiable encounter with physical suffering, pushing us to recognise the very 'otherness' of another being's pain, even as it invades our own affective sphere. In place of any comforting transcendence or redemption of endured pain, they offer a starkly sceptical, even pessimistic probing of what it is to witness another's suffering.
The State of Stylistics
Author: Poetics and Linguistics Association. ConferencePublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042024283
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
The State of Stylistics contains a broad collection of papers that investigate how stylistics has evolved throughout the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In so doing, it considers how stylisticians currently perceive their own respective fields of enquiry. It also defines what stylistics is, and how we might use it in research and teaching.
Plays
Author: Eugène IonescoLanguage Through the Looking Glass
Author: Marina YaguelloPublisher:
ISBN: 9780198700050
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
What can wordplay--as understood in the broadest sense--teach us about language, its functions, characteristics, structure, and workings? Using Lewis Carroll's Alice as a starting point, Yanguello takes the reader on a vivid and unconventional voyage into the world(s) of language, charting the major themes of linguistics along the way. This is an entertaining and original introduction to the nature of language that will appeal to students and teachers alike.