Author: Wlater Herries Pollock Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780266185567 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 130
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Excerpt from The Paradox of Acting About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Walter Herries Pollock Publisher: ISBN: 9789389465631 Category : Languages : en Pages : 130
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Author: Denis Diderot Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 150
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The Paradox of Acting by Walter Herries Pollock Denis Diderot, first published in 1883, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author: William Archer Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780265814543 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 242
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Excerpt from Masks or Faces a Study in the Psychology of Acting The paradoxes of philosophy generally prove, on analysis, to be contradictions in terms; those Of art, on the other hand, are more often truisms turned inside out. This I believe to be a fair description of Diderot's celebrated Paradoxe sur le It undoubtedly contains a great deal of truth; but in so far as it is true it is not paradoxical. The paradox is brought in, sometimes in the shape of sheer over statement, more Often by means of a little nimble jugglery with ambiguous terms and misleading ana logies. In his arguments from analogy, Diderot does not rise to the fine frenzy of some of his fellow theorists. 'we no more think feeling a necessary ingredient in acting, ' cries one, than we should deem it expedient for a painter, after he had finished a like ness upon the canvas, to represent the heart, liver, brains, and the internal formation, on the back of it.' Another - this time an American - executes a still more surprising feat of logical. Legerdemain. 'did Rosa asks, with withering emphasis, feel like a horse-fair when she painted her great picture on that subject? Or did Longfellow feel like foot prints on the sands of time when he wrote that line of the Psalflé of se?' Diderot would no doubt admit that the zeal Of these disciples outruns their discretion; yet they merely burlesque some Of his own arguments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: D. D. Raphael Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780666138217 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 112
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Excerpt from The Paradox of Tragedy: The Mahlon Powell Lectures, 1959 My subject is philosophy, not literary criticism, and the topics raised are dealt with as philosophical questions. My knowledge of drama is somewhat limited, and I am con scious that my appreciation of it may be biased in some respects by the strong impression made upon me in my youth by the Greek dramatists. Even of them I do not write as a classical scholar, but at least I have read most of the plays. With later drama, however, it is a very dif ferent story, and I can well believe that a more extensive and more detailed knowledge would require qualification of my views. My illustrations from post-hellenic drama are pretty well confined to works written in English or French. Such acquaintance as I have with parts of French literature is largely due to my wife, and these essays owe much to her. When using passages from Greek prose or verse, or from French prose, I have thought it best to borrow or give an English translation and, so far as practicable, to dispense with quoting the original language, though I regret the inevitable loss of beauty - in Anouilh as well as in Sophocles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Denis Diderot Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781514652350 Category : Languages : en Pages : 108
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Denis Diderot, The Paradox of the actor Diderot's "thesis is that a great actor must not be sensitive; or, in other words, that he must not feel the emotions he expresses. "Extreme sensitiveness makes poor actors; while absolute lack of sensitiveness is a quality of the highest acting." He sustains this view by six arguments, viz.: we can not repeat emotion at will, but the power is soon exhausted; the age when the comedian is at his greatest is not youth, when he is quick and full of emotion, but after he has had a long experience, when the ardor of his passions has subsided and his head is calm and his spirit self-possessed; certain facts going to show that the performer's real feelings are different from those which he is expressing on the stage; and, finally, his best argument, and the one on which his thesis mainly rests, that one can not do two things at a time. The actor has to be observant of his playing, to regulate its effects, his gestures, and his exclamations, to see that they are correct, to keep his mind on the scene, to recollect his part. All this critical work is incompatible with sincere emotion. When a person is really moved, when he feels some great woe, while he may indeed sink upon a chair as the actor does in the scene, he does not keep watch of his attitude while falling or think how to make it expressive and harmonious, but gives himself wholly up to his trouble."- Alfred Binet, The Paradox of Diderot.
Author: Walter Herries Pollock Publisher: Nabu Press ISBN: 9781295636662 Category : Languages : en Pages : 144
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