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  • Eugene O'Neill and the Reinvention of Theatre Aesthetics

    by Thierry Dubost ...
     The plays of Eugene O'Neill testify to his continued search for new dramatic strategies. The author explores the Nobel Prize winner's attempts at creating a new Modern play. He shows how, moving away from melodrama or "the problem play," O'Neill revisited the classical frames of drama and reinvented theater aesthetics by resorting to masks, the chorus, acoustics, silence or immobility for the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Music and the Irish Imagination

    Like a Language That We Could All Understand

    Edited by Alexandra Slaby, Thierry Dubost ...
    Series series Symposia
    Irish music holds pride of place among the cultural attributes defining Ireland, and its role in shaping national identity is undisputed. To question these certainties which tend to convey a restrictive notion of a so-called Irish music, the first Irish music studies conference in France, which took place at the université de Caen Basse-Normandie on September 10th-12th, 2008, brought together ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Perspectives on Contemporary Irish Theatre

    Populating the Stage

    Edited by Thierry Dubost, Anne Etienne ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book addresses the notion posed by Thomas Kilroy in his definition of a playwright’s creative process: ‘We write plays, I feel, in order to populate the stage’. It gathers eclectic reflections on contemporary Irish theatre from both Irish theatre practitioners and international academics. The eighteen contributions offer innovative perspectives on Irish theatre since the early 1990s up to the ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

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  • Bachelors of a different sort

    Queer aesthetics, material culture and the modern interior in Britain

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    Series series Studies in Design and Material Culture
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  • A Queer History of the Ballet

    by Peter Stoneley ...
    Designed for students, scholars and general readers with an interest in dance and queer history, A Queer History of the Ballet focuses on how, as makers and as audiences, queer men and women have helped to develop many of the texts, images, and legends of ballet.Presenting a series of historical case studies, the book explores the ways in which, from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, ... Read more

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  • Claude Debussy

    by David J. Code ...
    Series Book 31 - RB-Critical Lives
    French composer Claude Debussy (1862–1918) created music that was revolutionary, with a distinctly modern sound that highlighted the intersection of art and life. Here, in this unique biography, David J. Code explores the important moments in the development of Debussy’s literary interests that shaped his music—and in the process brings to life Debussy’s sardonic personality.Claude Debussy ... Read more

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  • Movement Training for the Modern Actor

    by Mark Evans ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book is the first critical analysis of the key principles and practices informing the movement training of actors in the modern era. Focusing on the cultural history of modern movement training for actors, Evans traces the development of the ‘neutral’ body as a significant area of practice within drama school training and the relationship between movement pedagogy and the operation of ... Read more

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  • Music: Ideas in Profile

    by Andrew Gant ...
    Series series Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas
    Ideas in Profile SeriesIs music a science or an art? It's both, as Andrew Gant reveals in this lively and accessible account of what music is and what it's for. Music has been central to life since the dawn of humankind and is intimately bound up with the origins of language.Andrew Gant introduces us to its long history and its many genres and manifestations. He explains how composers compose, ... Read more

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  • Heritage Film

    Nation, Genre, and Representation

    by Belén Vidal ...
    Series series Short Cuts
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  • Hélène Cixous, Rootprints

    Memory and Life Writing

    by Mireille Calle-Gruber, Hélène Cixous ...
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    Contemporary British Psychogeography

    Edited by Tina Richardson ...
    Series series Place, Memory, Affect
    Walking Inside Out is the first text that attempts to merge the work of literary and artist practitioners with academics to critically explore the state of psychogeography today. The collection explores contemporary psychogeographical practices, shows how a critical form of walking can highlight easily overlooked urban phenomenon, and examines the impact that everyday life in the city has on the ... Read more

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