Literature And Drama

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136565809
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Drama written by Stanley Wells and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1970. This book examines the areas of plays that are dependent upon the art of the theatre and the fluidity of interpretation to which this gives rise. It discusses the printing of plays and the limited attempts that have have been made to convey theatrical experience, taking as a particular example a masque by Ben Jonson. Finally, some of the problems created by the instability of theatrical art

Author : Elizabeth Burns
Publisher : Puffin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sociology of Literature and Drama written by Elizabeth Burns and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1973 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erich Auerbach
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816612439
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scenes from the Drama of European Literature written by Erich Auerbach and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenes from the Drama of European Literature was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In his foreword to this reprint of Erich Auerbach's major essays, Paolo Valesio pays tribute to the author with an old saying that he feels is still the best metaphor for the genesis of a literary critic: the critic is born of the marriage of Mercury and Philology. The German-born Auerbach was a scholar who specialized in Romance philology, a tradition rooted in German historicism—the conviction that works of art must be judged as products of variable places and times, not from the eye of eternity, nor by a single unchanging aesthetic standard. The mercurial element in Auerbach's work is significant, for in a life of motion—of exile from Hitler's Germany—he came to believe that literary history was evolutionary, ever-changing—a view reflected in the title of his book, which suggests life and literature are historical drama. Auerbach is best known for his magisterial study Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, written during the war, in Istanbul, when he was far from his own culture and from the books that he normally relied on. In 1957, just before his death, he arranged for the publication in English of his six most important essays, in a volume called Scenes from the Drama of European Literature.As in Mimesis,Auerbach's fresh insights bring to the disparate subjects of the essays a coherence that reflects the unity of Western, humanistic tradition, even while they hint at the deepening pessimism of his later years. In the first essay, "Figura," Auerbach develops his concept of the figural interpretation of reality; applied here to Dante's Divine Comedy,it also served as groundwork for his treatment of realism in Mimesis. A second essay on Dante's examines the poet's depiction of St. Francis of Assisi. The next three essays deal with the paradoxical nature of Pascal's political thought; the merging of la cour and la ville—the king's entourage and the bourgeoisie—chiefly in relation to the seventeenth-century French theater; and Vico's formulation concepts by the German Romantics. In the final essay Auerbach confers upon Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal the designation "aesthetic dignity" because, not in spite of, the hideous reality of the peoms. "A major collection of important essays on European literature, almost all classics, and almost all required reading for their various centuries—thus the book is indispensable for the medieval period,the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries; in addition, the 'Figura' and the Vico essays are very significant theoretical statements. The book is lucid and far more accessible for undergraduates than, say, current high theory. Nor has Auerbach's own work aged . . . All of his varied strengths are evidence in this collection, which is a better way into his work than Mimesis." –Fredric Jameson, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Author : Bertolt Brecht
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802130822
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mother Courage and Her Children written by Bertolt Brecht and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modem stage, Mother Courage and Her Children is Bertolt Brecht s most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling ( Mother Courage ), an itinerant trader, as she pulls her wagon of wares and her children through the blood and carnage of Europe s religious wars. Battered by hardships, brutality, and the degradation and death of her children, she ultimately finds herself alone with the one thing in which she truly believes her ramshackle wagon with its tattered flag and freight of boots and brandy. Fitting herself in its harness, the old woman manages, with the last of her strength, to drag it onward to the next battle. In the enduring figure of Mother Courage, Bertolt Brecht has created one of the most extraordinary characters in literature."

Author : S. W. Dawson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315388693
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drama & the Dramatic written by S. W. Dawson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1970, this book explores drama as literature and provides critical overviews of different aspects of drama and the dramatic. It first asks what a play is, before going on to examine dramatic language, action and tension, dramatic irony, characters and drama’s relationship with modern criticism and the novel. This book will be a valuable resource to those studying drama and English literature.

Author : Amanda Webster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925005929
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The School Drama Book written by Amanda Webster and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Manfred Pfister
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521423830
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory and Analysis of Drama written by Manfred Pfister and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manfred Pfister's book is the first to provide a coherent comprehensive framework for the analysis of plays in all their dramatic and theatrical dimensions. The material on which his analysis is based covers all genres and periods. His approach is systematic rather than historical, combining more abstract categorisations with detailed interpretations of sample texts.

Author : Herbert Samuel Lindenberger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226482408
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Drama written by Herbert Samuel Lindenberger and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Holt McDougal
ISBN 13 : 9780030062070
Total Pages : 1310 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Read Literature, Fiction, Poetry, Drama written by Donald Hall and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1987 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the three principal types or genres of literature: fiction, poetry, and drama in a way that helps students read literature with pleasure, intelligence, and discrimination.

Author : J. Lea Smith
Publisher : Drama
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dramatic Literacy written by J. Lea Smith and published by Drama. This book was released on 2001 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By integrating the dramatization of children's literature into content studies, we allow students to show their interpretation of the characters, plot, and setting.