Author: Denis DiderotPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385350611
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The Paradox of Acting. Translated with Annotations from Diderot's Paradoxe Sur Le Comedien
Author: Denis DiderotPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385350611
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The Paradox of Acting
Author: Denis DiderotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
THIS book has three different and almost independent attractions -- leaving its print, paper, and wrapper out of the question -- that of Mr. Pollock's excellent translation and annotations, which may be said to belong to the department of scholarship; that of Mr. Irving's preface, the interest of which is chiefly personal; and that of the intrinsic merit of the original Paradoxe as 'a contribution to French literature and to the aesthetics of the drama. It will be perhaps most convenient to take these in reverse order. Diderot has hitherto been very badly represented by English translations; indeed, until the version of the Neveu de Rameau which Mr. John Morley subjoined to his book on the Encyclopædist and his company, there was hardly any such worth ranking as literature. Yet there are not many French authors who, from the excess of material over formal excellence, deserve better to be known in England by translations; and it so happens that this Paradoxe sur le Comédien is a peculiarly favorable example of the author. Perhaps, with the exception of the already mentioned Neveu de Rameau and a few minor pieces, it is the most favorable. No competent authority denies the importance of Diderot in the history of aesthetic criticism; it is hardly an exaggeration to say that he is the father of all such as have done good criticism in art and letters for the last century. Although nothing can be further from his desultory and irregular fashion of comment than a definite critical creed or formulary, he more than any other may be regarded as the discoverer of the legitimate critique as against the illegitimate which for fully two thousand years had based itself (for the most part without any just title) on the authority of Aristotle. Glimmerings may of course be found in the Latin writers; glimmerings in the critics of the seventeenth century, especially in Dryden and Corneille. But, as regards literature first of all (which was long almost the only recognized subject of criticism), and other arts in the second place, Diderot, more than anyone else, deserves the credit of having thrown aside the idea of an archetypal model of each particular kind to which every example of that kind was bound to conform, and of having introduced the plan of treating individual excellence as if it were individual.--Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, Volume 73
Diderot's Paradoxe Sur Le Comédien ; the Paradox of Reading
Author: Virginia E. SwainParadoxe Sur Le Comedien
Author: “The” Athenaeum
Author: A Critical Bibliography of French Literature V4 18th C
Author: Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Diderot's "Paradoxe Sur Le Comedien"
Author: Virginia Edith SwainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Western capitalism in transition
Author: Alberta AndreottiPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526122421
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Since its emergence at the end of the seventeenth century, industrial capitalism as a specific form of social organisation has set recurrent challenges to its own persistence, and until today, it has proved to be successful to develop new ways of accumulation based on its capacity of adaptation. Is this process of transition now accelerating or reaching an end point? This book is a critical exploration of capitalism in transition, bringing together cutting edge, world renowned scholars who reflect from different disciplinary points of view. This collection engages with the primarily Western themes of welfare capitalism and social fragmentation. Structured over three parts, the book analyses; the transformations of welfare societies and capitalism with a focus on South European welfare states and their (in)capacity to tackle poverty; the transformation of work and migration with a special attention to informality and the question of social rights; and the transformation of cities.
Acting, Spectating and the Unconscious
Author: Maria Grazia TurriPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315517310
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
From Aristotle’s theory of tragic katharsis onwards, theorists of the theatre have long engaged with the question of what spectatorship entails. This question has, directly or indirectly, often been extended to the investigation of acting. Acting, Spectating, and the Unconscious approaches the unconscious aspects of spectatorship and acting afresh. Interweaving psychoanalytic descriptions of processes such as transference, unconscious phantasy, and alpha-function with an in-depth survey of theories of spectating and acting from thinkers such as Brecht, Diderot, Rousseau and Plato, Maria Grazia Turri offers a significant insight into the emotions inherent in both the art of the actor, and the spectator’s experience. A compelling investigation of the unconscious communication between spectators and actors, this volume is a must-read for students and scholars fascinated by theatre spectatorship.
The Agony Column of the "Times" 1800-1870
Author: Alice ClayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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