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Alienation and Theatricality

Diderot After Brecht

By: Phoebe von Held

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Alienation (Vefremdung) is a concept inextricably linked with the name of twentieth-century German playwright Bertolt Brecht - with modernism, the avant-garde and Marxist theory. However, as Phoebe von Held argues in this book, 'alienation' as a sociological and aesthetic notionavant la lettre had already surfaced in the thought of eighteenth-century French philosopher and writer Denis Diderot. This original study destabilizes the conventional understanding of alienation through a reading ofLe Paradoxe sur le comedien, Le Neveu de Rameau and other works by Diderot, opening up new ways of interpretation and aesthetic practices. If alienation constitutes a historical development for the Marxist Brecht, for Diderot it defines an existential condition. Brecht uses the alienation-effect to undermine a form of naturalism based on subjectivity, identification and illusion; Diderot, by contrast, plunges the spectator into identification and illusion, to produce an aesthetic of theatricality that is profoundly alienating and yet remains anchored in subjectivity.

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Routledge

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1351577034

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9781351577038

The Bone and Ivory Objects from Gordion

By: Phoebe A. Sheftel

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The Bone and Ivory Objects from Gordion

By: Phoebe A. Sheftel

Gordion is a paramount site for understanding the culture of central Anatolia over more than 3,000 years, from the Bronze Age to the Medieval period, but is most renowned for its Iron Age horizon, when it was royal capital of the mighty Phrygian kingdom. The hundreds of bone and ivory artifacts excavated at Gordion constitute a highly diverse body of material, and this publication presents one of the largest and most important assemblages of its kind in the Near East. The artifacts give remarkable insight into the tools used in crafts and manufacturing processes, a variety of decorative items, the artistic developments among local craftspeople, as well as indications of trading connections with other regions to the east and west. Ivory was a highly valued material used for decorative pieces in many areas around the eastern Mediterranean. The objects from Gordion are a significant addition to this corpus and illustrate both widely dispersed features common in other contemporary ivory-working centers, as well as the singular motifs and styles that developed in the Phrygian milieu. A unique assemblage of ivory horse trappings from the Early Phrygian Citadel are an important illustration of this cultural confluence. While bone was primarily used for strictly utilitarian objects, there are numerous pieces that show this lowly material could be used for high quality items such as inlays set into the wooden furniture exceptionally attested at Gordion. Even the sheep knuckle bone (astragal), decorated with incised designs and letters, gives a glimpse into the daily life in the community.

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585

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University of Pennsylvania Museum

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1949057186

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9781949057188

Passionate Publishers

The Founders of the Black Star Photo Agency

By: Phoebe Kornfeld

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The Founders of the Black Star Photo Agency

By: Phoebe Kornfeld

Passionate Publishers traces the lives of the German Jewish refugee-émigré founders of the Black Star photo agency—Ernest Mayer, Kurt Safranski, and Kurt Kornfeld—whose expertise helped ignite a revolution in photojournalism. The first half of the book lays the groundwork for understanding how Black Star’s founders could play such a key role in photojournalism. The author reconstructs their history in Germany before and during World War I and details their accomplishments in Berlin’s dynamic Weimar-era publishing industry. The journey into exile of Safranski, Mayer, and Kornfeld, their influence on the editors of Life, the first decade of Black Star, and the most notable post-World War II experiences of the photo agency’s founders are the focus of the second half of the book. Family and governmental archives provide extensive new information about the three men and reveal harrowing investigations by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, which believed Black Star’s founders to be spies or agents of a foreign government. The author argues that the refugee-émigrés successfully contested the never substantiated allegations on account of their strong views relating to the freedom of the press and the malevolence of discrimination on the basis of race, religion, or national origin.

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428

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Archway Publishing

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1665709057

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9781665709057

How Schools Worked

Public Education in English Canada, 1900-1940

By: Robert Douglas Gidney,Winnifred Phoebe Joyce Millar

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How Schools Worked

Public Education in English Canada, 1900-1940

By: Robert Douglas Gidney,Winnifred Phoebe Joyce Millar

A richly textured study of educational developments in English-speaking Canada from the close of the Victorian Age to the eve of World War II.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773539530

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9780773539532

Alienation and Theatricality

Diderot After Brecht

By: Phoebe von Held

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Diderot After Brecht

By: Phoebe von Held

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The Beauty Experiment

How I Skipped Lipstick, Ditched Fashion, Faced the World Without Concealer, and Learned to Love the Real Me

By: Phoebe Baker Hyde

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The Beauty Experiment

How I Skipped Lipstick, Ditched Fashion, Faced the World Without Concealer, and Learned to Love the Real Me

By: Phoebe Baker Hyde

The Beauty Experiment" is a fascinating memoir of one woman's journey to reclaim her sense of self-worth--and ultimately redefine what beauty means--through a yearlong extreme "make-under.

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250

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Da Capo Lifelong Books

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0738214655

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9780738214658

New Money in Rural Areas

Land Investment in Europe and Its Place Impacts

By: Nick Gallent,Iqbal Hamiduddin,Meri Juntti,Nicola Livingstone,Phoebe Stirling

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New Money in Rural Areas

Land Investment in Europe and Its Place Impacts

By: Nick Gallent,Iqbal Hamiduddin,Meri Juntti,Nicola Livingstone,Phoebe Stirling

This book examines the flow of investment into rural land assets in Europe, particularly farmland, woodland and wineries, but extending also to leisure uses such as golf courses and theme parks. It explores the characteristics of investors in rural land and their motivations before undertaking an analysis of the place impacts of investment, viewing ‘new money’ as a potential development opportunity, delivering a variety of outcomes for local landscapes and communities. After providing introductory insights into rural land investment and the measurement of associated impacts, ten case studies – from different European locations – explore actual investment motives and local impacts. The book concludes with a synthesis of investment experiences and an assessment of the transformative changes brought to rural areas by the flow of new money.

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Springer

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9811307709

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9789811307706

The Gothic Revival and American Church Architecture

An Episode in Taste, 1840-1856

By: Phoebe B. Stanton

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The Gothic Revival and American Church Architecture

An Episode in Taste, 1840-1856

By: Phoebe B. Stanton

This illustrated account of the impact of the English Gothic revival on American church architecture in the mid-nineteenth century finds that this fundamentally conservative movement provided the foundation for a new, influential aesthetic. With meticulous research and carefully chosen illustrations, Phoebe Stanton here explores the influence of the English Gothic revival on American church architecture in the mid-nineteenth century, arguing that this fundamentally conservative movement provided a foundation for a new aesthetic. Examining the writings of the movement's leading proponents as well as a variety of important buildings, Stanton offers a comprehensive survey of the architectural principles and models that became most influential in America. She also confirms the importance of the Cambridge Camden Society, which provided the theoretical atmosphere and practical examples that helped to establish new standards of excellence in American architecture.

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382

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JHU Press

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0801856221

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9780801856228

Turning the Century

A Bits and Bytes Reader for Developing Writers

By: Phoebe Reeves

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Turning the Century

A Bits and Bytes Reader for Developing Writers

By: Phoebe Reeves

For developmental writing courses at the paragraph/essay level and freshman composition courses. This collection of non-traditional readings for writers encourages students to create and cultivate an idea, then develop a style to showcase that idea. Its selections appeal to those instructors who are interested in a more unique blend of readings that are literary, thought-provoking, experimental and multicultural, spanning a broad range of universal and individual themes, issues, and concerns. Through the use of multimedia examples and activities, this reader trains students in effective group and autonomous process thinking and learning, reading and writing, discussing and arguing.

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0130813052

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Book's by Phoebe von Held

Alienation and Theatricality

Alienation and Theatricality

The Bone and Ivory Objects from Gordion

The Bone and Ivory Objects from Gordion

Passionate Publishers

Passionate Publishers

How Schools Worked

How Schools Worked

Alienation and Theatricality

Alienation and Theatricality

The Beauty Experiment

The Beauty Experiment

New Money in Rural Areas

New Money in Rural Areas

The Gothic Revival and American Church Architecture

The Gothic Revival and American Church Architecture

Turning the Century

Turning the Century

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