Beyond Minimalism - Beckett's Late Style in the Theater
Beyond Minimalism explores Beckett's drama of the '70s and '80s, examining the ways in which play text and performance merge through the playwright's poetic idiom. Beginning with Not I and continuing through Catastrophe and What Where, Brater examines the plays not only as texts but also as theater pieces. Discussing the technical and aesthetic demands that productions like Footfalls and Rockaby make on actor, director, and spectator, Brater clarifies the essential relationship between Beckett's achievement in the context of the breakdown of genre, performance poetry, and the electronic intrusion of the recorded voice as a new theatrical convention.
Clear and direct in style, and with more than eighty photographs, maps and plans, Early Greek States Beyond the Polis is a widely relevant study of Greek history, archaeology and society. Catherine Morgan addresses the different forms of association experienced by early Iron-Age and Archaic Greeks by exploring the archaeological, literary and epigraphical records of central Greece and the northern Peloponnese.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 27 August 2011
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The World Beyond
In 1855, Lucknow is mentioned by several writers as one of the richest cities in the world, more beautiful than Paris and Constantinople. After 1858 Lucknow is never mentioned in the annals of history again. What happened in the space of three years to so annihilate a city? The World Beyond is the poignant tale of two lovers caught in a world torn apart by the Sepoy Mutiny. It paints a vivid picture of a way of life, of a kingdom at the height of its culture and prosperity and its ultimate destruction.
In Charles de Lint's world, the skin between the mundane business of everyday life and the realm of magical mischief is always thin. Passing from one to the other is effortless and can take but a moment. Often, his characters are deep into the doings of the world beyond before they begin to notice or admit that anything unearthly is going on.
