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National Theatre Connections 2013
The Guffin; Mobile Phone Show; What Are They Like?; We Lost Elijah; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Tomorrow I'll Be Happy; Soundclash; Don't Feed the Animals; Ailie and the Alien; Forty-Five Minutes
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights – a mixture of established and current writers – National Theatre Connections 2013 offers young performers between the ages of thirteen and nineteen everywhere an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study.
Each play is specifically...
by Jonathan Antony Strickland
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The King of Skull Island lies dying after his legendary fall from the great skyscraper. But as he begins to feel death creep into his enormous limbs, something small and nasty begins to annoy him.
A Zane Fate
Everyone is on borrowed time
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
by Erika Balsom, Kenneth Berger, Susie Bright
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us...
by Jonathan Kertzer
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Literature reveals the intense efforts of moral imagination required to articulate what justice is and how it might be satisfied. Examining a wide variety of texts including Shakespeare's plays, Gilbert and Sullivan's operas, and modernist poetics, Poetic Justice and Legal Fictions explores how literary...
by Jonathan Marks
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for a belief in the basic natural...
Spy
Uncovering Craig Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The apartheid agent and killer who got away with it all ...It was in 1972 when the seemingly ordinary Craig Williamson registered at Wits University and joined the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). Williamson was elected NUSAS's vice president and in January 1977, when his career in...
by Jonathan Swift
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is generally acknowledged as the finest satirical writer in the English language, and it is no exaggeration to say, as Harold Bloom does, that he is likely the most “savage and merciless...
by Jonathan Swift
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Published anonymously in 1704, this prose satire by the author of Gulliver's Travels presents a story of three brothers, each symbolizing a Christian sect, and an unrelated series of digressions. The "tale" portion centers on Peter, Martin, and Jack, who respectively represent Roman Catholicism,...
by Jonathan Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 March 22, 1758) was a preacher, theologian, and missionary to Native Americans. Edwards is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian, and hes considered one of America's greatest intellectuals. Edwards's theological work...
Talking on the Water
Conversations about Nature and Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
During the 1980s and 1990s, the Resource Institute, headed by Jonathan White, held a series of "floating seminars" aboard a sixty-five-foot schooner featuring leading thinkers and artists from a broad array of disciplines. Over a period of ten years, White conducted interviews with the writers, scientists,...
Novel Gazing
Queer Readings in Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Novel Gazing is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. The contributors to this volume navigate new territory in literary theory with essays that implicitly challenge the "hermeneutic of suspicion" widespread in current critical theory. In a stunning introductory...
The Poetics of Transition
Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 1999
The Poetics of Transition examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. Jonathan Levin begins with the Emersonian notion that transition—the movement from one state or condition to another...
A Modest Proposal: For preventing the childrm beneficial to the publick
Bestsellers and famous Books
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift...