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  • Bas Jan Ader

    In Search of the Miraculous

    by Jan Verwoert ...
    Series series Afterall Books / One Work
    An illustrated investigation into the critical motives behind the last, unfinished work that has defined the romantic legacy of conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader.In 1975 Bas Jan Ader disappeared at sea while trying to sail from the East Coast of the United States to Europe as part of a project titled In Search of the Miraculous. Ader's considerable influence on later conceptual artists stems from the ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

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  • A Philosophy of Boredom

    by Lars Svendsen ...
    Translated by John Irons ...
    It has been described as a "tame longing without any particular object" by Schopenhauer, "a bestial and indefinable affliction" by Dostoevsky, and "time's invasion of your world system" by Joseph Brodsky, but still very few of us today can explain precisely what boredom is. A Philosophy of Boredom investigates one of the central preoccupations of our age as it probes the nature of boredom, how it ... Read more

    $26.49 CAD

  • The Genius of Language

    Observations for Teachers (CW 299)

    by Rudolf Steiner, Christopher Bamford, Ádám Makkai ...
    Translated by Ruth Pusch, Gertrude Teutsch ...
    Series Book 7 - Education
    6 lectures, Stuttgart, Dec. 26, 1919 - Jan. 3, 1920 (CW 299)To one who understands the sense of speechThe world unveilsIts image form.To one who listens to the soul of speechThe world unfoldsIts true being.To one who lives in the spirit depths of speechThe world gives freelyWisdom's strength.To one who lovingly can dwell on speechSpeech will accordIts inner might.So... ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

  • The Transformative Power of Performance

    A New Aesthetics

    by Erika Fischer-Lichte ...
    Translated by Saskya Jain ...
    In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics.The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes – blurring distinctions between artist and audience, body and mind, art and life – is here framed as the breeding ground for ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Existentialism Made Easy: Flash

    by Mel Thompson, Nigel Rodgers ...
    The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Existentialism Made Easy is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to existentialism. In just 96 pages, the reader will discover all the key ideas, from altruism to utilitarianism. Ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Postdramatic Theatre

    by Hans-Thies Lehmann ...
    Translated by Karen Juers-Munby ...
    Newly adapted for the Anglophone reader, this is an excellent translation of Hans-Thies Lehmann’s groundbreaking study of the new theatre forms that have developed since the late 1960s, which has become a key reference point in international discussions of contemporary theatre.In looking at the developments since the late 1960s, Lehmann considers them in relation to dramatic theory and theatre ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • Rilke: The Last Inward Man

    by Lesley Chamberlain ...
    An incisive and intimate account of the life and work of the great poet Rilke, exploring the rich interior world he created in his poetryWhen Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde turned, he was increasingly dismissed as apolitical, as too inward.In Rilke: The Last Inward Man, acclaimed critic Lesley Chamberlain uses this ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • Theatre and Performance Design

    A Reader in Scenography

    by Jane Collins, Andrew Nisbet ...
    Theatre and Performance Design: A Reader in Scenography is an essential resource for those interested in the visual composition of performance and related scenographic practices.Theatre and performance studies, cultural theory, fine art, philosophy and the social sciences are brought together in one volume to examine the principle forces that inform understanding of theatre and performance design ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • An Introduction to Narratology

    by Monika Fludernik ...
    An Introduction to Narratology is an accessible, practical guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature.In this book, Monika Fludernik outlines:the key concepts of style, metaphor and metonymy, and the history of narrative formsnarratological approaches to interpretation and the linguistic aspects of texts, including new cognitive developments in the fieldhow ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Maya Deren

    Incomplete Control

    by Sarah Keller ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Maya Deren (1917–1961) was a Russian-born American filmmaker, theorist, poet, and photographer working at the forefront of the American avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Influenced by Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp, she is best known for her seminal film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), a dream-like experiment with time and symbol, looped narrative and provocative imagery, setting the stage for ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Wittgenstein's Ladder

    Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary

    by Marjorie Perloff ...
    "[Perloff] has brilliantly adapted Wittgenstein's conception of meaning and use to an analysis of contemporary language poetry." —Linda Voris, Boston ReviewMarjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Rilke

    Edited by Karen Leeder, Robert Vilain ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Often regarded as the greatest German poet of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) remains one of the most influential figures of European modernism. In this Companion, leading scholars offer informative and thought-provoking essays on his life and social context, his correspondence, all his major collections of poetry including most famously the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD