Author: Martine J. Kincaid Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9780820478319 Category : Art Languages : fr Pages : 138
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Theatre of ideas, the theatre of Marguerite Yourcenar lets us foresee the philosophical fabric which implies its writing: a vision of the world with lucid, tragic and revolutionary time. Order and measurement characterize the style of Yourcenar. This s
Author: William J. Thompson Publisher: Associated University Presse ISBN: 9781575911151 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 360
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Provides the listing of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. This is a reference source in the study of modern French literature and culture. It contains nearly 8,800 entries.
Author: Maria Stadter Fox Publisher: Susquehanna University Press ISBN: 9781575910352 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 226
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"Although these three modernist writers were not primarily playwrights, as expatriates they were interested in the Euripidean theme of women in exile: each independently chose to rewrite Euripides' Hippolytus, a play in which the protagonist is a woman in exile whose speech, writing, and passion are deeply problematic. Each author approaches the Euripidean material in a different way: Tsvetaeva focuses on gender in language, Yourcenar explores the gendering of a self, and H.D. performs the undoing of gendered oppositions."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Ralph M. Hester Publisher: ISBN: Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 590
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... [this book] is an all-in-French intermediate program ... for students who have already studied basic French ... [it] aims to challenge students to improve their ability in speaking, listening, reading, and writing the French language as it is actually used in the French-speaking world today ... [the text] is divided into twelve lessons, each of which practices a particular function of language, such as questioning, generalizing, or describing ... the first part of each lesson ... [teaches] how to carry out the language function ... through the use of grammar, structural features, and vocabulary ... the second part of each lesson ... [gives] two or three readings from authentic French sources that illustrate the function of the lesson.-Introduction.
Author: Madelena Gonzalez Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443838373 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 430
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All over the world, in the most varied contexts, contemporary theatre is a rich source for increasing the visibility of communities generally perceived by others as minorities, or those who see themselves as such. Whether of a linguistic, ethnic, political, social, cultural or sexual nature, the claims of minorities enjoy a privileged medium in theatre. Perhaps it is because theatre itself is linked to the notions of centre and periphery, conformism and marginality, domination and subjugation – notions that minority theatre constantly examines by staging them – that it is so sensitive to the issues of troubled and conflicted identity and able to give them a universal resonance. Among the questions raised by this volume, is that of the relationship between the particular and the more general aims of this type of theatre. How is it possible to speak to everyone, or at least to the majority, when one is representing the voice of the few? Beyond such considerations, urgent critical examination of the function and aims of minority theatre is needed. To what kind of public is such drama addressed? Does it have an exemplary nature? How is it possible to avoid the pitfalls and the dead end of ghettoization? Certain types of audience-specific theatre are examined in this context, as, for example, theatre as therapy, theatre as an educational tool, and gay theatre. Particular attention is paid to the claims of minorities within culturally and economically dominant western countries. These are some of the avenues explored by this volume which aims to answer fundamental questions such as: What is minority theatre and why does theatre, a supposedly bourgeois, if not to say elitist, art form, have such affinity with the margins? What if, particularly in contemporary society, the theatre as a form, were merely playing out its fundamentally marginal status? The authors of these essays show how different forms of minority theatre can challenge cultural consensus and homogenization, while also aspiring to universality. They also address the central question of the place and status of apparently marginal forms of theatre in the context of globalization and in doing so re-examine theatre itself as a genre. Not only do they illustrate how minority theatre can challenge the dominant paradigms that govern society, but they also suggest their own more flexible and challenging frameworks for theatrical activity.
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