Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage
Chinese Theatre Placed and Displaced
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
The first book-length study in any language of the presence and influence of Mei Lanfang, the internationally known Chinese actor who specialized in female roles on the twentieth-century international stage. Tian investigates Mei Lanfang's presence and influence and the transnational and intercultural appropriations of his art.
C.P. Snow
The Dynamics of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Novelist and cultural commentator C.P. Snow was a large and controversial presence in his lifetime but his work has been largely neglected since his death in 1980. This is the first 21st-century book to offer a clear, informed and sympathetic survey of all his novels and major non-fiction books and to affirm their importance for the world today.
by Michael Benton
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Drawing upon a wide range of biographies of literary subjects, from Shakespeare and Wordsworth to William Golding and V.S. Naipaul, this book develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding them together....
The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945
Volume Eight
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Featuring sixteen contributions from recognized authorities in their respective fields, this superb new mapping of women's writing ranges from feminine middlebrow novels to Virginia Woolf's modernist aesthetics, from women's literary journalism to crime fiction, and from West End drama to the literature of Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
Ireland and Romanticism
Publics, Nations and Scenes of Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
This collection by leading scholars in the field provides a fascinating and ground-breaking introduction to current research in Irish Romantic studies. It proves the international scope and aesthetic appeal of Irish writing in this period, and shows the importance of Ireland to wider currents in Romanticism.
Borges the Unacknowledged Medievalist
Old English and Old Norse in His Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
The Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was many things during his life, but what has gone largely unnoticed is that he was a medievalist, and his interest in Germanic medievalism was pervasive throughout his work. This study will consider the medieval elements in Borges creative work and shed new light on his poetry.
by Wheeler Winston Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Focusing on "dark" or black comedy films in the US and the UK, Wheeler Winston Dixon provides a comprehensive overview of a variety of films and filmmakers (Vanishing Point, Marcel Hanoun), whose work has largely been ignored, but whose influence and importance is clearly present.
by Liz Herbert McAvoy, Diane Watt
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
This volume focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of literary history, and ultimately the concept of 'writing' itself.
Avant-Garde Theatre Sound
Staging Sonic Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Sound experimentation by avant-garde theatre artists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries is an important but ignored aspect of theatre history. Curtin explores how artists engaged with the sonic conditions of modernity through dramatic form, characterization, staging, technology, performance style, and other forms of interaction.
by N. Grace
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II period and continuing into the 1990s, the essays illustrate Beat participation in the global circulation of a poetics of dissent.
The Inhabited Ruins of Central Europe
Re-imagining Space, History, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Focusing on Central Europe, the volume proposes a new paradigm of how culture works, based on a model of "inhabited ruins" as a space where contradictory elements come together into continually renewed and frequently paradoxical configurations. Examines art, architecture, literature and music.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
History, Memory, Performance is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring performances of the past in a wide range of trans-national and historical contexts. At its core are contributions from theatre scholars and public historians discussing how historical meaning is shaped through performance.
Anti-War Theatre After Brecht
Dialectical Aesthetics in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Examining the ways in which contemporary Western theatre protests against the ‘War on Terror’, this book analyses six twenty-first century plays that respond to the post-9/11 military operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. The plays are written by some of the most significant writers of...
From Psychology to Phenomenology
Franz Brentano's 'Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint' and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Although highly influential, Brentano's doctrines from Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint were taken up and changed by his students and subsequent thinkers. Tassone's study of this important text offers readers a better understanding of PES and outlines its ongoing relevance for contemporary philosophy of mind.