The Ride Across Lake Constance And Other Plays

Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374250006
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ride Across Lake Constance and Other Plays written by Peter Handke and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1976 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of six plays by Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke, spanning the early years of the Austrian playwright's career. The first full-length play The Ride Across Lake Constance, is one of Handke's best-known works. It deals directly with one of Handke's favorite themes: the realities of theater itself, independent of the offstage world, and the way language (dialogue) and objects (props) operate in the skewed world of the stage. Therein it anticipates They Are Dying Out, the second full-length play in this volume. In some ways more conventional than many of Handke's plays, They Are Dying Out presents one of his most fascinating protagonists, Quitt, a businessman who first induces a group of colleagues to set up a monopoly and then torpedoes the scheme. The four short plays that round out the book--Prophecy, Calling for Help, Quodlibet, and My Foot My Tutor--were written before The Ride Across Lake Constance and show Handke moving from the experimental mode of his early work toward the richness and complexity that have marked him as the most important dramatist since Becket."--Publisher description.

Author : Peter Handke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780374512729
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : London : Eyre Methuen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ride Across Lake Constance written by Peter Handke and published by London : Eyre Methuen. This book was released on 1973 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title refers to the legend of a horseman who rode over the frozen Lake Constance in a snowstorm and dropped dead with fright on the other side on discovering what he had done. In the play a group of characters, known only by the names of the actors who perform the parts, talk and play games together, skating over the thin ice that separates them from unspoken danger.

Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466807768
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ride Across Lake Constance and Other Plays written by Peter Handke and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1976-10-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of six plays by Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke, spanning the early years of the Austrian playwright's career The first full-length play The Ride Across Lake Constance, is one of Handke's best-known works. It deals directly with one of Handke's favorite themes: the realities of theater itself, independent of the offstage world, and the way language (dialogue) and objects (props) operate in the skewed world of the stage. Therein it anticipates They Are Dying Out, the second full-length play in this volume. In some ways more conventional than many of Handke's plays, They Are Dying Out presents one of his most fascinating protagonists, Quitt, a businessman who first induces a group of colleagues to set up a monopoly and then torpedoes the scheme. The four short plays that round out the book--Prophecy, Calling for Help, Quodlibet, and My Foot My Tutor--were written before The Ride Across Lake Constance and show Handke moving from the experimental mode of his early work toward the richness and complexity that have marked him as the most important dramatist since Becket. Together, Handke's plays bear witness to the truth of Richard Gilman's observation that "in Handke's theater, language, exposed, assaulted, wrestled with, driven to limits, and pursued still further, begins to take on, like the color returning to the cheeks of a nearly hanged man, the signs of a strange and unexpected resurrection."

Author : Cristina Delgado-García
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110333910
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Character in Contemporary British Theatre written by Cristina Delgado-García and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The category of theatrical character has been swiftly dismissed in the academic reception of no-longer-dramatic texts and performances. However, claims on the dissolution of character narrowly demarcate what a subject is and how it may appear. This volume unmoors theatre scholarship from the regulatory ideals of liberal humanism, stretching the notion of character to encompass and illuminate otherwise unaccounted-for subjects, aesthetic strategies and political gestures in recent theatre works. To this aim, contemporary philosophical theories of subjectivation, European theatre studies, and experimental, script-led work produced in Britain since the late 1990s are mobilised as discussants on the question of subjectivity. Four contemporary playtexts and their performances are examined in depth: Sarah Kane’s Crave and 4.48 Psychosis, Ed Thomas’s Stone City Blue and Tim Crouch’s ENGLAND. Through these case studies, Delgado-García demonstrates alternative ways of engaging theoretically with character, and elucidating a range of subjective figures beyond identity and individuality. Alongside these analyses, the book traces a large body of work that has experimented with speech attribution since the early twentieth-century. This is a timely contribution to contemporary theatre scholarship, which demonstrates that character remains a malleable and politically-salient notion in which understandings of subjectivity are still being negotiated.

Author : Matthias Konzett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135941297
Total Pages : 3105 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of German Literature written by Matthias Konzett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 3105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.

Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466806982
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling written by Peter Handke and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1994-07-30 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers three intimate, eloquent meditations that map a self-reflexive journey from Alaska to the Austria of his childhood, while illuminating the act of writing itself. In his "Essay on Tiredness," Handke transforms an everyday experience--often precipitated by boredom--into a fascinating exploration of the world of slow motion, differentiating degrees of fatigue, the types of weariness, its rejuvenating effects, as well as its erotic, cultural, and political implications. The title essay is Handke's attempt to understand the significance of the jukebox, a quest which leads him, while on a trip in Spain, into the literature of the jukebox, the history of the music box, and memories of the Beatles' music, in turn elucidating various stages of his own life. And in his "Essay on the Successful Day," for which there is no prescription, Handke invents a picture of tranquility, using a self-portrait by Hogarth as his point of departure to describe a state of being at peace. Playful, reflective, insightful, and entertaining, The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling constitutes a literary triptych that redefines the art of the essay and challenges the form of the short story, confirming Peter Handke's stature as "one of the most original and provocative of contemporary writers" (Lawrence Graver, The New York Times Book Review).

Author : Scot Peacock
Publisher : Contemporary Authors New Revis
ISBN 13 : 9780787646134
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Scot Peacock and published by Contemporary Authors New Revis. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors® New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the world's most-popular authors. These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors® entries. For your convenience, a soft-cover cumulative index is sent biannually.While Gale strives to replicate print content, some content may not be available due to rights restrictions.Call your Sales Rep for details.

Author : Peter Handke
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 146689539X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House written by Peter Handke and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House is Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's evocative, moving, often fantastic, short novel about one man's conflict with himself and his journey toward resolution. During one night shift, an unnamed, middle-aged pharmacist in Taxham, an isolated suburb of Salzburg, tells his story to a narrator. The pharmacist is known and well-respected, but lonely and estranged from his wife. He feels most comfortable wandering about in nature, collecting and eating hallucinogenic mushrooms. One day he receives a blow to the head that leaves him unable to speak, and the narrative is transformed from ironic description into a collection of sensual impressions, observations and reflections. The pharmacist, who is now called the driver, sets out on a quest, travelling into the Alps with two companions—a former Olympic skiing champion and a formerly famous poet--where he is beaten and later stalked by a woman. He drives through a tunnel and has a premonition of death, then finds himself in a surreal, foreign land. In a final series of bizarre, cathartic events, the driver regains his speech and is taken back to his pharmacy—back to his former life, but forever changed. A powerful, poetic exploration of language, longing and dislocation in the human experience, On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House reveals Handke at his magical best.

Author : John Sandford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136816038
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture written by John Sandford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 1,100 entries written by an international group of over 150 contributors, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture brings together myriad strands of social, political and cultural life in the post-1945 German-speaking world. With a unique structure and format, an inclusive treatment of the concept of culture, and coverage of East, West and post-unification Germany, as well as Austria and Switzerland, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture is the first reference work of its kind. Containing longer overviews of up to 2,000 words, as well as shorter factual entries, cross-referencing to other relevant articles, useful further reading suggestions and extensive indexing, this highly useable volume provides the scholar, teacher, student or non-specialist with an astonishing breadth and depth of information.