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Thema des Buches ist Kundry, die weibliche Hauptfigur in Richard Wagners Spätwerk Parsifal (1882) und eine singuläre Gestalt der Operngeschichte. Als Grenzgängerin und in sich Zerrissene findet sie – zwischen Schrei, Lachen und Verstummen – zu verstörend neuen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-09
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The Oxford Dictionary of Plays provides essential information on the best-known, best-loved, and most important plays in world theatre. Each entry includes details of the title, author, date of writing, date of first performance, genre, setting, and composition of cast;...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-01-29
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As a uniquely hybrid form of artistic output, straddling music and theatre and high and popular culture, opera offers vast research possibilities not only in the field of music studies but also in the fields of media and cultural studies. Using the exotic legacy of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-19
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In this study, the author examines works of German-language literature and film from the nineteenth and twentieth century in order to chart a certain kind of otherness. Common to all of the examined cultural products are aspects of gender, sexuality, a notion of home or...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-12-09
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In Shakespeare's Comedies: All That Matters, Mike Scott explores and explains the secrets that have made Shakespeare's comedies so enduring that they continue to be performed, watched and studied by millions of people every year. Professor Scott focuses in turn on The...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2014-08-29
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All That Matters
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The Merry Wives of Windsor (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by William Shakespeare Making the reading experience fun! Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's...
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Sparknotes
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2014-08-12
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SparkNotes Literature Guide Series
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The Merchant of Venice (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by William Shakespeare Making the reading experience fun! Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's...
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Sparknotes
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2014-08-12
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SparkNotes Literature Guide Series
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The figure of the child has long been a mainstay of Italian cinema, conventionally interpreted as a witness of adult shortcomings, a vessel of innocence, hope and renewal, or an avatar of nostalgia for the (cinematic) past. New Visions of the Child in Italian Cinema...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-06
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The hazards and secrets of the book trade and writing for television and the theatre are revealed and co-mingle with the joys of travel, family and entertaining. The alarums and excursions of an arson attack and the efforts to ease the lot of fellow writers imprisoned...
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Arcadia Books
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2014-05-14
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Northern Ireland is now generally regarded to be a post-conflict region since the official end to three decades of violence in 1998. However, given some of the stipulations of the Good Friday Belfast Agreement, including the early release of politically motivated...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-04-01
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Expressionism and Its Deformation in Contemporary Chinese Theatre provides both rigorous readings of dramatic works as well as a historical overview of Chinese theatre from the 1980s to the present.Expressionism becomes a discursive locus to be incorporated and even...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-12-04
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This book examines the position of black and mixed-race characters in Irish film culture. By exploring key film and television productions from the 1990s to the present day, the author uncovers and interrogates concepts of Irish identity, history and nation. In 2009,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-09-24
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Suffering from «manopause» and «Low T», underemployed and unwilling to grow up, «the other guy» has emerged as an important figure in modern media masculinity. From the films of Judd Apatow to sitcoms and popular music, this new breed of man is desperately attempting to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-09-01
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A celebration of Britain's favourite actress, Judi DenchThe very name Judi Dench encourages a warm and admiring response from the public and fellow actors alike. Her wide-ranging career includes numerous Shakespearean performances (most recently in ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-08-22
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Since the late 1990s, German cinema has gone through a period of astonishing productivity and success that has made it the focus of scholarly analysis once more. What can contemporary German cinema tell us about current German society and its problems? What are the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-07-03
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The first full biography of Britain's leading actress of her time.Whether it is her sunny temperament, her gift of laughter, her wide-ranging abilities, or all three, Judi Dench is without doubt a star. Shortlisted for a 1998 Oscar for her performance as Queen Victoria...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2013-05-23
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Die neueren Zeiten kennen den Chor kaum mehr als Bestandteil der Festkultur, deswegen ist seine Umsetzung im Theater ein großes Problem. Für Regisseure und Schauspieler wie auch für die Zuschauer war der Chor der fremdartigste Teil. Allerdings haben seit der deutschen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-02
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Die jüngst einsetzende wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit dem Werk des Komponisten Wilfried Hiller, geboren 1941, wird hier dokumentiert mit dem Blick auf die Werke der späten Schaffensjahre:Die Analysen reichen vom biografisch-historischen Kontext des...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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This volume is based on papers given at the biennial Women in French conference held in Leeds in May 2011. Drawing on a range of interconnecting disciplines and forms of cultural production, it explores the relationship between French and Francophone women and the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-02-27
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This book presents the texts of five plays, collectively written and performed during the years 1973 to 1976 by the Newfoundland theatre troupe CODCO. CODCO's satiric plays expose universal perversity, ignorance, prejudice and abuse with the ironic wit of the people of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2012-12-14
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