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Author : Les Essif
Release Date : 25 March 2013
Publisher : Springer
Genre : Literary Criticism
Pages : 354
ISBN 13 : 9781137299031

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Book excerpt: A book about the role America plays in the French imagination, as it translates to the French stage. Informed by a rich variety of Western cultural scholarship, Essif examines two dozen post-1960 works representing some of the most innovative dramaturgy of the last half century, including works by Gatti, Obaldia, Cixous, Koltes, and Vinaver.

American Unculture in French Drama

Author : Les Essif
Publisher : Springer
Genre : Literary Criticism
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A book about the role America plays in the French imagination, as it translates to the French stage. Informed by a rich variety of Western cultural scholarship, Essif examines two dozen post-1960 works representing some of the most innovative dramaturgy of the last half century, including works by Gatti, Obaldia, ...

Text Presentation 2013

Author : Graley Herren
Publisher : McFarland
Genre : Performing Arts
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Text & Presentation, 2013 gathers some of the best work presented at the 2013 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore. Subjects ranging from Ancient Greece to 21st century America are covered with a variety of approaches and formats. Celebrated playwright Edward Albee’s presentation is the lead piece, followed by 12 research papers, one review ...

Text Presentation 2017

Author : Jay Malarcher
Publisher : McFarland
Genre : Drama
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Presenting some of the best work from the 2017 Comparative Drama Conference at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, this collection highlights the latest research in comparative drama, performance and dramatic textual analysis. Contributors cover a broad range of topics, from the “practical ethnography” of directing foreign language productions to writing ...

Text Presentation 2014

Author : Graley Herren
Publisher : McFarland
Genre : Performing Arts
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Text & Presentation gathers some of the best work presented at the 2014 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore. The subjects explored in this volume range from ancient to contemporary and encompass great cultural and intellectual diversity. The highlight of the conference was a presentation by award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang. A transcript ...

Text Presentation 2007

Author : Stratos E. Constantinidis
Publisher : McFarland
Genre : Performing Arts
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Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference. This anthology includes papers from the 31st annual conference held in Los Angeles, California. Topics covered include Chicano theatre, the Vietnam ...

French XX Bibliography

Author : William J. Thompson
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Provides a listing available of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. This work is a reference source in the study of modern French literature and culture. The bibliography is divided into three major divisions: general studies, author subjects (arranged alphabetically), and cinema....

Dramatic Interactions

Author : Nicoletta Marini-Maio,Colleen Ryan-Scheutz
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Genre : Performing Arts
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Dramatic Interactions is a collection of essays on the flourishing and interdisciplinary subject of teaching foreign languages, literatures, and cultures through theater. With rich examples from a variety of commonly and less commonly taught languages, this book affirms both the relevance and effectiveness of using theater for foreign language learning ...

Text Presentation 2009

Author : Kiki Gounaridou
Publisher : McFarland
Genre : Performing Arts
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Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international, interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference. This edition includes papers from the 33rd annual conference held in Los Angeles, California. Topics covered include Bernard Shaw's use of ...

Watching War on the Twenty First Century Stage

Author : Clare Finburgh Delijani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre : Performing Arts
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What do we watch when we watch war? Who manages public perceptions of war and how? Watching War on the Twenty-First-Century Stage: Spectacles of Conflict is the first publication to examine how theatre in the UK has staged, debated and challenged the ways in which spectacle is habitually weaponized in ...

Occupying the Stage

Author : Kate Bredeson
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Genre : Performing Arts
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Occupying the Stage: the Theater of May '68 tells the story of student and worker uprisings in France through the lens of theater history, and the story of French theater through the lens of May '68. Based on detailed archival research and original translations, close readings of plays and historical ...

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : French language
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Currency Wars with China and Japan in Western Newsmagazines

Author : Damien Ng
Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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This book explores China’s currency wars with its trading partners in four Western newsmagazines: Time, The Economist, L’Express, and Der Spiegel. Based on both quantitative and qualitative approaches, the interdisciplinary approach adopted in the research draws on two analytical frameworks from the realm of critical discourse analysis; van ...

American Unculture In French Drama