Author: Timothy Alan BrienPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Staging the Impossible
Author: Patrick D. MurphyPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book explores the most recent critical thinking on the relationship between the literary mode of the fantastic and the literary genre of drama with respect to modern theatre. Wide-ranging in time and space, the 14 essays assess 20th century dramatic works from the United States, Ireland, England, Western Europe, and the Caribbean.
Searching for the Impossible Dream, Staging the Impossible Script
Author: Timothy Alan BrienStaging the Impossible
Author: Patrick D. MurphyPublisher: Praeger
ISBN: 0313272700
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book explores the most recent critical thinking on the relationship between the literary mode of the fantastic and the literary genre of drama with respect to modern theatre. Wide-ranging in time and space, the 14 essays assess 20th century dramatic works from the United States, Ireland, England, Western Europe, and the Caribbean.
Salvador Dalí: The Impossible Collection
Author: Paul MoorhousePublisher: Assouline Publishing
ISBN: 161428976X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
In the popular imagination, possibly no other artist’s work is more recognizable than that of Salvador Dalí. Indeed, for many he is the ultimate mad artist, whose singular vision remorselessly probed his own psychological depths. His nightmarish visions and bizarre landscapes express the angst and turbulence of the twentieth century. Dalí’s creativity embraced many different modes of expression and was never constrained by any one style. Over eight decades, the prodigious range of Dalí’s activity spanned every conceivable medium, from painting and drawing to sculpture, film, furniture, books, stage design and jewelry, not to mention his highly eccentric public persona, which could be considered an art form in itself.
Experiencing the Impossible
Author: Gustav KuhnPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 026203946X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
How the scientific study of magic reveals intriguing—and often unsettling—insights into the mysteries of the human mind. What do we see when we watch a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat or read a person's mind? We are captivated by an illusion; we applaud the fact that we have been fooled. Why do we enjoy experiencing what seems clearly impossible, or at least beyond our powers of explanation? In Experiencing the Impossible, Gustav Kuhn examines the psychological processes that underpin our experience of magic. Kuhn, a psychologist and a magician, reveals the intriguing—and often unsettling—insights into the human mind that the scientific study of magic provides.Magic, Kuhn explains, creates a cognitive conflict between what we believe to be true (for example, a rabbit could not be in that hat) and what we experience (a rabbit has just come out of that hat!). Drawing on the latest psychological, neurological, and philosophical research, he suggests that misdirection is at the heart of all magic tricks, and he offers a scientific theory of misdirection. He explores, among other topics, our propensity for magical thinking, the malleability of our perceptual experiences, forgetting and misremembering, free will and mind control, and how magic is applied outside entertaiment—the use of illusion in human-computer interaction, politics, warfare, and elsewhere. We may be surprised to learn how little of the world we actually perceive, how little we can trust what we see and remember, and how little we are in charge of our thoughts and actions. Exploring magic, Kuhn illuminates the complex—and almost magical—mechanisms underlying our daily activities.
Staging the Ottoman Turk
Author: Esin AkalinPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 3838269195
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
In the wake of the fear that gripped Europe after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, English dramatists, like their continental counterparts, began representing the Ottoman Turks in plays inspired by historical events. The Ottoman milieu as a dramatic setting provided English audiences with a common experience of fascination and fear of the Other. The stereotyping of the Turks in these plays—revolving around complex themes such as tyranny, captivity, war, and conquests—arose from their perception of Islam. The Ottomans' failure in the second siege of Vienna in 1683 led to the reversal of trends in the representation of the Turks on stage. As the ascending strength of a web of European alliances began to check Ottoman expansion, what then began to dazzle the aesthetic imagination of eighteenth century England was the sultan's seraglio with images of extravaganza and decadence. In this book, Esin Akalin draws upon a selective range of seventeenth and eighteenth century plays to reach an understanding, both from a non-European perspective and Western standpoint, how one culture represents the other through discourse, historiography, and drama. The book explores a cluster of issues revolving around identity and difference in terms of history, ideology, and the politics of representation. In contextualizing political, cultural, and intellectual roots in the ideology of representing the Ottoman/Muslim as the West’s Other, the author tackles with the questions of how history serves literature and to what extent literature creates history.
Impossible Worlds
Author: Francesco BertoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198812795
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
The latter half of the 20 ...
Staging the Savage God
Author: Ralf RemshardtPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809335514
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
"This book delineates the theatre's deep connection with the grotesque and traces the historically extensive and theoretically intensive relationship between performance and its "other," the grotesque. It also presents a general theory of the grotesque"--
Carcinoma of the Bladder
Author: Zbigniew PetrovichPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642602584
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Concentrating on the diagnosis and treatment of carcinoma of the bladder, rather than the entire field of genitourinary oncology, this book discusses in depth all the important advances in molecular genetics of relevance to clinical practice. Progress in both imaging and non-imaging modalities from recent clinical trials is well documented and critically evaluated in a manner that will prove invaluable for practising urooncologists. Furthermore, the management of patients with superficial, muscle-invasive, and advanced disease is discussed, and new treatment results presented. Numerous illustrations and tables serve to assist in understanding the data presented.
Author: Brooke Larson