Le Balcon

Author : William J. Thompson
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826512970
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fleurs du mal written by William J. Thompson and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprisingly, there are few book-length studies available that approach the poems in Charles Baudelaireís collection on an individual basis. Understanding "Les Fleurs du Mal" fills this gap by providing students and serious readers with clear, scholarly "explications" to many of the most widely read of Baudelaire's poems.

Author : Kennelly
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004649026
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unfinished Business written by Kennelly and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study systematically to appraise Splendid's, «Elle», and Le Bagne, the three plays by Jean Genet published after his death, both in the context of the dramatist's dramatic canon and with respect to one another. After showing that their unusual publishing history necessarily sets these works apart from Haute surveillance, Les Bonnes, Le Balcon, Les Nègres, and Les Paravents, it argues that from Splendid's to Le Bagne, the question of incompletion is 'exteriorized' -- moving from a purely thematic to an increasingly formal context -- and that the status of each posthumously published work differs: Splendid's is a 'completed' play, thematizing incompletion; «Elle», with its seemingly incomplete form having thematic currency, is a 'properly unfinished' play; and as the intentionally 'fragmentary', purposefully suspended 'beginning' of a play, Le Bagne is shaped by incompletion.

Author : David Bradby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521278812
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern French Drama 1940-1980 written by David Bradby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-09-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years since 1940, French theatre has been transformed both institutionally and artistically. This book compares all the major traditions and tendencies at work in French theatre since the outbreak of the Second World War, not only in Paris, but also in the Centres Dramatiques and Maisons de la Culture. Previous books have stopped short at the end of the fifties when the influence of Artaud was strong and the Absurd Theatre had become the new orthodoxy. David Bradby reassesses Beckett, lonesco, Adamov and Genet and challenges the notion that the sixties and seventies were a period of decline in French theatre. The book proceeds chronologically, offering a critical survey of the principal directors, actors and companies as well as of the playwrights, who are its major concern. Important productions are illustrated with black and white photographs. The political background is explained and all quotations are in English.

Author : Rosemary Lloyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521537827
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire written by Rosemary Lloyd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Baudelaire's place among the great poets of the Western world is undisputed, and his influence on the development of poetry since his lifetime has been enormous. In this Companion, essays by outstanding scholars illuminate Baudelaire's writing both for the lay reader and for specialists. In addition to a survey of his life and a study of his social context, the volume includes essays on his verse and prose, analyzing the extraordinary power and effectiveness of his language and style, his exploration of intoxicants like wine and opium, and his art and literary criticism. The volume also discusses the difficulties, successes and failures of translating his poetry and his continuing power to move his readers. Featuring a guide to further reading and a chronology, this Companion provides students and scholars of Baudelaire and of nineteenth-century French and European literature with a comprehensive and stimulating overview of this extraordinary poet.

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 080219429X
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Balcony written by Jean Genet and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 1994-01-21 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterpiece of twentieth-century drama by the iconic author of Our Lady of the Flowers: “ingenious, intellectually exciting, and, yes, still quite shocking” (The New York Times). In the midst of a city ravaged by violent rebellion, a brothel caters to the elaborate role-playing fantasies of men from all walks of life. A gas company worker pretends to be a bishop while, in the next room, another customer dons a judge’s robe to savor the erotic pleasures of meting out justice—and punishment. These perverse costumed masquerades parody the larger, more violent dramas of the outside world. But as the anarchic political struggle threatens to topple society, even the revolutionaries come to believe that illusions are preferable to reality. A poet, novelist, playwright, and outlaw, Jean Genet helped define French existential theater of the mid-twentieth century. Deeply influential and widely acclaimed, Genet’s The Balcony presents an unrelentingly profound and critical reflection of contemporary society.

Author : Marion May Campbell
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401210357
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetic Revolutionaries written by Marion May Campbell and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetic Revolutionaries is an exploration of the relationship between radical textual practice, social critique and subversion. From an introduction considering recent debates regarding the cultural politics of intertextuality allied to avant-garde practice, the study proceeds to an exploration of texts by a range of writers for whom formal and poetic experimentation is allied to a subversive politics: Jean Genet, Monique Wittig, Angela Carter, Kathy Acker, Kathleen Mary Fallon, Kim Scott and Brian Castro. Drawing on theories of avant-garde practice, intertextuality, parody, representation, and performance such as those of Mikhaïl Bakhtin, Julia Kristeva, Gérard Genette, Margaret A. Rose, Linda Hutcheon, Fredric Jameson, Ross Chambers and Judith Butler, these readings explore how a confluence of writing strategies – covering the structural, narratological, stylistic and scenographic – can work to boost a text’s subversive power.

Author : Jacques Offenbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Les brigands written by Jacques Offenbach and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Le Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francis Warre Cornish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
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Download or read book The Public School Speaker written by Francis Warre Cornish and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hygnas Embvani
Publisher : Editorial Cumio
ISBN 13 : 9895175132
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Même les belles lumières s'éteignent written by Hygnas Embvani and published by Editorial Cumio. This book was released on with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: