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The Prison of Love

Romance, Translation, and the Book in the Sixteenth Century

By: Emily C. Francomano

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The Prison of Love

Romance, Translation, and the Book in the Sixteenth Century

By: Emily C. Francomano

In The Prison of Love, Emily Francomano offers the first comparative study of this sixteenth-century work as a transcultural, humanist fiction.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442630515

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The Musical Novel

Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary Fiction

By: Emily Petermann

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The Musical Novel

Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary Fiction

By: Emily Petermann

Analyzes two groups of "musical novels" -- novels that take music as a model for their construction -- including jazz novels by Toni Morrison and Michael Ondaatje, and novels based on Bach's Goldberg Variations. What is a "musical novel"? This book defines the genre as musical not primarily in terms of its content, but in its form. The musical novel crosses medial boundaries, aspiring to techniques, structures, and impressions similar tothose of music. It takes music as a model for its own construction, borrowing techniques and forms that range from immediately perceptible, essential aspects of music (rhythm, timbre, the simultaneity of multiple voices) to microstructural (jazz riffs, call and response, leitmotifs) and macrostructural elements (themes and variations, symphonies, albums). The musical novel also evokes the performance context by imitating elements of spontaneity that characterize improvised jazz or audience interaction. The Musical Novel builds upon theories of intermediality and semiotics to analyze the musical structures, forms, and techniques in two groups of musical novels, which serve as case studies. The first group imitates an entire musical genre and consists of jazz novels by Toni Morrison, Albert Murray, Xam Wilson Cartiér, Stanley Crouch, Jack Fuller, Michael Ondaatje, and Christian Gailly. The secondgroup of novels, by Richard Powers, Gabriel Josipovici, Rachel Cusk, Nancy Huston, and Thomas Bernhard, imitates a single piece of music, J. S. Bach's Goldberg Variations. Emily Petermann is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Konstanz.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1571135928

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Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Play of Fiction

Novels and the Theater, Haywood to Austen

By: Emily Hodgson Anderson

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Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Play of Fiction

Novels and the Theater, Haywood to Austen

By: Emily Hodgson Anderson

This study looks at developments in eighteenth-century drama that influenced the rise of the novel; it begins by asking why women writers of this period experimented so frequently with both novels and plays. Here, Eliza Haywood, Frances Burney, Elizabeth Inchbald, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen explore theatrical frames--from the playhouse, to the social conventions of masquerade, to the fictional frame of the novel itself—that encourage audiences to dismiss what they contain as feigned. Yet such frames also, as a result, create a safe space for self-expression. These authors explore such payoffs both within their work—through descriptions of heroines who disguise themselves to express themselves—and through it. Reading the act of authorship as itself a form of performance, Anderson contextualizes the convention of fictionality that accompanied the development of the novel; she notes that as the novel, like the theater of the earlier eighteenth century, came to highlight its fabricated nature, authors could use it as a covert yet cathartic space. Fiction for these authors, like theatrical performance for the actor, thus functions as an act of both disclosure and disguise—or finally presents self-expression as the ability to oscillate between the two, in "the play of fiction.

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Routledge

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1135838690

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Pop-feminist Narratives

The Female Subject Under Neoliberalism in North America, Britain, and Germany

By: Emily Spiers

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Pop-feminist Narratives

The Female Subject Under Neoliberalism in North America, Britain, and Germany

By: Emily Spiers

This volume explores the recent phenomenon of 'pop-feminism' and pop-feminist writing across North America, Britain, and Germany and examines what feminist politics look like in the twenty-first century.

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272

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Oxford University Press

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0198820879

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Imagining Asia

Cultural Citizenship and Nation Building in the National Museums of Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau

By: Emily Stokes-Rees

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Imagining Asia

Cultural Citizenship and Nation Building in the National Museums of Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau

By: Emily Stokes-Rees

Despite widespread recognition that we are living in an era of mass globalization, there has been a startling resurgence of nationalism in many regions of the world. Alongside this development, many new national museums are being built or refurbished, pointing to the critical role the telling of history plays in processes of building national identity. From new museum construction to the re-purposing of colonial monuments, and from essentialized narratives to spaces which encourage visitors to dream, this book explores the development and influence of national museums in three contemporary Asian societies – Singapore, Hong Kong, and Macau.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1786609053

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The Postmodern Sacred

Popular Culture Spirituality in the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Urban Fantasy Genres

By: Emily McAvan

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The Postmodern Sacred

Popular Culture Spirituality in the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Urban Fantasy Genres

By: Emily McAvan

From The Matrix and Harry Potter to Stargate SG:1 and The X-Files, recent science fiction and fantasy offerings both reflect and produce a sense of the religious. This work examines this pop-culture spirituality, or "postmodern sacred," showing how consumers use the symbols contained in explicitly "unreal" texts to gain a secondhand experience of transcendence and belief. Topics include how media technologies like CGI have blurred the lines between real and unreal, the polytheisms of Buffy and Xena, the New Age Gnosticism of The DaVinci Code, the Islamic "Other" and science fiction's response to 9/11, and the Christian Right and popular culture. Today's pervasive, saturated media culture, this work shows, has utterly collapsed the sacred/profane binary, so that popular culture is not only powerfully shaped by the discourses of religion, but also shapes how the religious appears and is experienced in the contemporary world.

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McFarland

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0786463880

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Jeanette Winterson and Religion

By: Emily McAvan

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Jeanette Winterson and Religion

By: Emily McAvan

Since the publication of her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson quickly established herself as a powerful and insightful writer on sexuality and gender. However, the profound and persistent religious themes of her work have received much less critical attention. Jeanette Winterson and Religion is the first in-depth study of the ways in which Winterson navigates the sacred and the profane in the full range of her writing, from her first novel to later works such as The PowerBook and The Stone Gods. This book reads the author's work alongside the theological turn in the thought of such theorists as Alain Badiou, John D. Caputo and Julia Kristeva as well as feminist and queer theologians such as Catherine Keller and Marcella Althaus-Reid. In this way, Jeanette Winterson and Religion reveals how Jeanette Winterson stakes out a unique and intriguing post-secular literary form of the sacred.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135009692X

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Seasons of Love

Why Rent Matters

By: Emily Garside

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Seasons of Love

Why Rent Matters

By: Emily Garside

With its groundbreaking score, unabashed romanticism, and scrappy sensibility, Rent was like a firecracker thrown into a hushed theater, turning heads and upending conventions. But if its unexpected success was the stuff of theatrical legend, the story of its making was a bittersweet one, with composer Jonathan Larson, a student of Sondheim's finally making his Off-Broadway debut, tragically dying on the night of the final dress rehearsal. Even decades later, Rent lives on as a warmly remembered chapter in Broadway history, yet the show is too often trivialized, reduced to parody, or dissected in the service of an arid cultural politics. In light of this, journalist and theater expert Emily Garside has some questions. Chief among them: Why is Rent taken less seriously than other musicals of its caliber? And should it be? In Seasons of Love, Garside brings both a fan's devotion and a scholar's critical eye to reassess the legacy of this Pulitzer Prize–winning musical a quarter-century after its premiere. Even as the show memorably captured the experience of life on the margins in the late '90s, Garside argues that it remains an important and relevant work today. She explores the influence it had on diverse casting, immersive set design, and queer representation in the works that followed in its wake. And she dives into the world of past and present "Rentheads" who share their formative experiences with the musical, which coincided with the dawn of online fan culture. Ultimately, Rent was an uncommonly innovative and prescient musical, and as we survey past works for inspiration and look for ways to fill our theaters, there's much to learn from its example.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493064622

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The Jukebox Musical

An Interpretive History

By: Kevin Byrne,Emily Fuchs

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The Jukebox Musical

An Interpretive History

By: Kevin Byrne,Emily Fuchs

This is a comprehensive guide to the unique genre of the jukebox musical, delving into its history to explain why these musicals have quickly become beloved for multiple generations of theatergoers and practitioners. Providing a concise exploration of the three main categories of the jukebox musical—biographical, genre-specific, and artist catalog—this text is perfect for those wishing to learn more about this relatively recent and unique genre of theater. It identifies the dramaturgical needs that arise in these productions and explains how certain works become critical darlings or fan favorites. How much information needs to be conveyed through song and how much can be left up to interpretation by the audience? What kinds of changes occur when a repertoire of songs is reimagined for the stage? In addition to these insightful explorations, it also reveals how creative teams tackle the unique challenge of weaving together plot and song in order to convey meaning, emotion, excitement, and beauty in these increasingly popular forms of theater. The Jukebox Musical: An Interpretive History is written for students, performers, and musical theater enthusiasts alike: this is the ideal introduction to one of the twnty-first century's most popular and successful stage genres.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000614808

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Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature

The Material Sacred

By: Emily McAvan

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Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature

The Material Sacred

By: Emily McAvan

What does it feel like to experience the sacred today? Examining in detail many of this century's most significant writers, including Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth Strout, Marilynne Robinson, Mohsin Hamid, Michael Chabon, Howard Jacobson and Don DeLillo, Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature: The Material Sacred argues that contemporary social and cultural forms, most especially those of 21st century literature, are marked by what Emily McAvan calls a material sacred. Placing Christian, Jewish and Muslim writers in conversation with the new materialisms, this book shows how secular and sacred mix unpredictably in contemporary writing. In this important contribution to the understanding of religion, materialism and literature, McAvan maps new territory, arguing that the material sacred shows us that the human and non-human, the divine and the profane, have been interwoven from the start.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350280399

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Sex and War on the American Stage

Lysistrata in performance 1930-2012

By: Emily Klein

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Sex and War on the American Stage

Lysistrata in performance 1930-2012

By: Emily Klein

American adaptations of Aristophanes’ enduring comedy Lysistrata have used laughter to critique sex, war, and feminism for nearly a century. Unlike almost any other play circulating in contemporary theatres, Lysistrata has outlived its classical origins in 411 BCE and continues to shock and delight audiences to this day. The play’s "make love not war" message and bawdy humor render it endlessly appealing to college campuses, activist groups, and community theatres – so much so that none of Aristophanes’ plays are performed in the West as frequently as Lysistrata. Starting with the play’s first mainstream production in the U.S. in 1930, Emily B. Klein explores the varied iterations of Lysistrata that have graced the American stage, page, and screen since the Great Depression. These include the Federal Theatre’s 1936 Negro Repertory production, the 1955 movie musical The Second Greatest Sex and Spiderwoman Theater’s openly political Lysistrata Numbah!, as well as Douglas Carter Beane’s Broadway musical, Lysistrata Jones, and the international Lysistrata Project protests, which updated the classic in the contemporary context of the Iraq War. Although Aristophanes’ oeuvre has been the subject of much classical scholarship, Lysistrata has received little attention from feminist theatre scholars or performance theorists. In response, this book maps current debates over Lysistrata’s dubious feminist underpinnings and uses performance theory, cultural studies, and gender studies to investigate how new adaptations reveal the socio-political climates of their origins. Emily B. Klein is Assistant Professor of English and Drama at Saint Mary's College of California. Her work has appeared in Women and Performance and Frontiers as well as Political and Protest Theater After 9/11: Patriotic Dissent (Routledge, 2012).

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1135087733

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Staging Democracy

The Political Work of Live Performance

By: Emily Beausoleil

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Staging Democracy

The Political Work of Live Performance

By: Emily Beausoleil

Staging Democracy responds to compelling calls in democratic theory for communication and coalition across social difference by asking how we realize these ideals in concrete terms. It shifts the focus from if and why marginalized difference should find entry into politics, to the practical question of how this is to be done. What explains those rare moments when marginalized voices break through in contemporary politics? And how might a closer look at the strategies and resources at play within such moments enhance how we understand and enact civic engagement? Political theory and practice have traditionally overlooked the performing arts as a site of civic politics, and yet marginalized communities continually turn to them to communicate, challenge, and catalyze change. This book brings vivid moments of creative practice from three continents together with performance studies and political scholarship to argue that artistic performance offers a potent form of democratic voice for claims from the margins. Across political contexts, democratic aims, and artistic genres, Staging Democracy shows how the very qualities that lead some to think of the arts as unclear, irrational, and irresponsible – and thus politically suspect – shape artistic performance’s distinct capacity to enact democratic engagement in conditions of deep difference and inequality.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111032930

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9783111032931

Angels in America at the British National Theatre

Premiere, Revival and Transatlantic Legacy, 1993-2018

By: Emily Garside

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Angels in America at the British National Theatre

Premiere, Revival and Transatlantic Legacy, 1993-2018

By: Emily Garside

Angels in America was one of the most significant pieces of American theatre in the 20th Century. Much has been written on Tony Kushner's epic drama. However, the National Theatre of Great Britain's productions of the show are relatively under-discussed. Not only was the National Theatre responsible for helping to originate the play in the early 1990s, but it helped revitalize interest in 2018 with Marianne Elliott's reimagined version starring Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane. This book considers the role of the National in the play's history, and how Elliott's production reframed the play 25 years after the original; it chronicles the tumultuous first production and the play's successes in London and New York. The book also looks at the key features of the play: its representation of AIDS, its status as an iconic gay play and its searing political commentary. Concluding with an in-depth analysis of Marianne Elliott's reimagining of the play, this book is an up-to-date history of Angels in America and a reflection on its continued importance.

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1476675473

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The Prison of Love

The Prison of Love

The Musical Novel

The Musical Novel

Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Play of Fiction

Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Play of Fiction

Pop-feminist Narratives

Pop-feminist Narratives

Imagining Asia

Imagining Asia

The Postmodern Sacred

The Postmodern Sacred

Jeanette Winterson and Religion

Jeanette Winterson and Religion

Seasons of Love

Seasons of Love

The Jukebox Musical

The Jukebox Musical

Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature

Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature

Sex and War on the American Stage

Sex and War on the American Stage

Staging Democracy

Staging Democracy

Angels in America at the British National Theatre

Angels in America at the British National Theatre

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