Backstage In The Novel

Author : Francesca Saggini
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813932645
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backstage in the Novel written by Francesca Saggini and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Backstage in the Novel, Francesca Saggini traces the unique interplay between fiction and theater in the eighteenth century through an examination of the work of the English novelist, diarist, and playwright Frances Burney. Moving beyond the basic identification of affinities between the genres, Saggini establishes a literary-cultural context for Burney's work, considering the relation between drama, a long-standing tradition, and the still-emergent form of the novel. Through close semiotic analysis, intertextual comparison, and cultural contextualization, Saggini highlights the extensive metatextual discourse in Burney's novels, allowing the theater within the novels to surface. Saggini’s comparative analysis addresses, among other elements, textual structures, plots, characters, narrative discourse, and reading practices. The author explores the theatrical and spectacular elements that made the eighteenth-century novel a hybrid genre infused with dramatic conventions. She analyzes such conventions in light of contemporary theories of reception and of the role of the reader that underpinned eighteenth-century cultural consumption. In doing so, Saggini contextualizes the typical reader-spectator of Burney’s day, one who kept abreast of the latest publications and was able to move effortlessly between "high" (sentimental, dramatic) and "low" (grotesque, comedic) cultural forms that intersected on the stage. Backstage in the Novel aims to restore to Burney's entire literary corpus the dimensionality that characterized it originally. It is a vivid, close-up view of a writer who operated in a society saturated by theater and spectacle and who rendered that dramatic text into narrative. More than a study of Burney or an overview of eighteenth-century literature and theater, this book gives immediacy to an understanding of the broad forces informing, and channeled through, Burney's life and work.

Author : Thomas Bogar
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1621570835
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination written by Thomas Bogar and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: April 14, 1865. A famous actor pulls a trigger in the presidential balcony, leaps to the stage and escapes, as the president lies fatally wounded. In the panic that follows, forty-six terrified people scatter in and around Ford’s Theater as soldiers take up stations by the doors and the audience surges into the streets chanting, “Burn the place down!” This is the untold story of Lincoln’s assassination: the forty-six stage hands, actors, and theater workers on hand for the bewildering events in the theater that night, and what each of them witnessed in the chaos-streaked hours before John Wilkes Booth was discovered to be the culprit. In Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination, historian Thomas A. Bogar delves into previously unpublished sources to tell the story of Lincoln’s assassination from behind the curtain, and the tale is shocking. Police rounded up and arrested dozens of innocent people, wasting time that allowed the real culprit to get further away. Some closely connected to John Wilkes Booth were not even questioned, while innocent witnesses were relentlessly pursued. Booth was more connected with the production than you might have known—learn how he knew each member of the cast and crew, which was a hotbed of secessionist resentment. Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination also tells the story of what happened to each of these witnesses to history, after the investigation was over—how each one lived their lives after seeing one of America’s greatest presidents shot dead without warning. Backstage at the Lincoln Assassination is an exquisitely detailed look at this famous event from an entirely new angle. It is must reading for anyone fascinated with the saga of Lincoln’s life and the Civil War era.

Author : Lee Hale
Publisher : Lyons Press
ISBN 13 : 9781493072866
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backstage at the Dean Martin Show written by Lee Hale and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2023-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dean Martin Show, with its big-name stars--such as Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, and John Wayne--glitzy production number, and often risque skits, for nine years owned Thursday nights at ten o'clock on television. But nothing about the show was as big a draw as its inimitable host, the breezy, roguishly handsome Dean Martin. Now Lee Hale, the show's musical director, and later producer of The Golddiggers and Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts, lets you peek behind the curtains at all the fun, friendship, and occasional star tantrums that went into making this top-rated variety program.

Author : Betty Hutton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578032092
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backstage You Can Have written by Betty Hutton and published by . This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1952, Variety named Hutton the number one female box-office attraction. Less than a year later, her career in Hollywood film was all but finished. Here is the story, in all its candor, of Hutton's meteoric rise to stardom and her subsequent fall. Through it all, she survived-- and won.

Author : Al Kooper
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1617745367
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards written by Al Kooper and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rock 'n roll classic back in print updated and revised. One of the funniest rock memoirs ever Al Kooper's legendary Backstage Passes is available again] Al's quirkly life from would'be teenage rocker to crashing Bob Dylan's recording session an

Author : Aaron Lunsford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692494608
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backstage written by Aaron Lunsford and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing could have prepared an ambitious group of college dropouts for what awaited them on the road to potential rock stardom. Suicide, depression, extreme poverty, injuries, broken down vans and nervous encounters with supermodels. This is the story of "Christian Hardcore" band, As Cities Burn. Aaron Lunsford, drummer, takes readers behind the scenes, sharing his unique, and sometimes harsh, perspective on what it was like to attempt to "make it" as a band in the early-to-mid 2000's. Aaron's comments on the ins and outs of the music business, as well as the moral pressures of the "Christian" music scene, are eye-opening. Backstage gives fans of any genre of music a chance to put themselves in the shoes of those who dare to dream, and often fall short in the end.

Author : Guus Kuijer
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545298989
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Everything written by Guus Kuijer and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith is joy is love is hope in this novel of exquisite power and everyday miracles, reminiscent of Barbara Kingsolver's THE POISONWOOD BIBLE.Thomas can see things no one else can see. Tropical fish swimming in the canals. The magic of Mrs. Van Amersfoort, the Beethoven-loving witch next door. The fierce beauty of Eliza with her artificial leg. And the Lord Jesus, who tells him, "Just call me Jesus." Thomas records these visions in his "Book of Everything." They comfort him when his father beats him, when the angels weep for his mother's black eyes. And they give him the strength to finally confront his father and become what he wants to be when he grows up: "Happy."

Author : Don Sweeney
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1589796373
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backstage at the Tonight Show written by Don Sweeney and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of celebrity vignettes and anecdotes from the peak years of the Tonight Show, and includes behind-the-scenes looks at more than two dozen celebrities, including Joan Rivers, Bill Cosby, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Tony Randall, Don Rickles, Stevie Wonder, Martin Short, Liza Minnelli, Ed McMahon, and Johnny Carson himself. With an eye for the eccentric, amusing, or downright bizarre, Sweeney's brief portraits offer a glimpse at celebrity from the other side of the curtain.

Author : Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789353338213
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Back Stage written by Montek Singh Ahluwalia and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the spectacular trajectory of Ahluwalia's life from its humble beginnings in Secunderabad to the corridors of power in New Delhi, this book is a classic insider's account of how the India story was shaped and script Ahluwalia played a key role in the transformation of India from a state-run to a market-based economy, and remained a constant fixture at the top of India's economic policy establishment for an unprecedented period of three decades.

Author : Jean Candlish Kelchner
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434356868
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Backstage at the White House written by Jean Candlish Kelchner and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, First Lady Stacey Lea Forbes and her four best friends uncover a plot to keep women out of powerespecially out of politics They set out to set things right. What unfolds is a momentous battle of the sexes played out in the most powerful arena in the world. The troubled peace that follows culminates almost thirty years later when the daughter of one of their own is sworn in as the First Woman President of the United States. Backstage at the White House is a bigger than life novel with a cast of characters whose passions and powers teeter back and forth between the real and surreal. Stacey Leanne Culberson Forbes, the Perfect First Lady, climbs a tree to think; has visions that her friends take seriously, and forms a secret organization called Women On Watch. Goodman Palmer Forbes, the nation's popular president, feeds his mother's ashes to his fish, plays war games on big electronic boards in the War Room, and obeys commandments he believes are from his mother returned from the grave. John Marion Cardinal Bishop is said to be so powerful that being elevated to Pope would be a comedown, but he has his EVE. Judge Earle Salvation Walker, TV Evangelist, is one of the most powerful churchmen in the world, and his church, The Church Eternal, a modern day phenomenon, but he has a 'good little wife' at home named Carolyn. And the First Lady's friends who risk all with herSarah Winthrop, the only woman senator; Sue Ann Fairmont and Bev Abelson, wives of Senators; and Ellie, Stacey Lea's Girl Friday with whom she shares Karma. Their worlds collide Backstage at the White House.