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Shayla's Story

The Mathew Family Series (book 2 and a standalone)

By: Beverly Preston

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Shayla's Story

The Mathew Family Series (book 2 and a standalone)

By: Beverly Preston

~ People come into your life for a Reason, a Season or a Lifetime ~A Reason…Questioning her relationship with a man who worships politics more than her, Shayla Clemmins escapes reality for the seductive sunsets of Greece. There she finds exactly what she didn't know was missing from her life, but fears she'll lose him to her past.A Season...John Mathews works hard and plays even harder. When he finds a new passion in the sensual warmth of Greece, he discovers that one lust-filled weekend of romance is just not enough.A Lifetime...With Shayla's past catching up to her and an anonymous threat to her future, can she and John make a lifetime together?

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Beverly Preston

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1490470042

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9781490470047

Biblical Scholarship and the Church

A Sixteenth-Century Crisis of Authority

By: Allan K. Jenkins,Patrick Preston

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Biblical Scholarship and the Church

A Sixteenth-Century Crisis of Authority

By: Allan K. Jenkins,Patrick Preston

Conflicting claims to authority in relation to the translation and interpretation of the Bible have been a recurrent source of tension within the Christian church, and were a key issue in the Reformation debate. This book traces how the authority of the Septuagint and later that of the Vulgate was called into question by the return to the original languages of scripture, and how linguistic scholarship was seen to pose a challenge to the authority of the teaching and tradition of the church. It shows how issues that remained unresolved in the early church re-emerged in first half of the sixteenth century with the publication of Erasmus’ Greek-Latin New Testament of 1516. After examining the differences between Erasmus and his critics, the authors contrast the situation in England, where Reformation issues were dominant, and Italy, where the authority of Rome was never in question. Focusing particularly on the dispute between Thomas More and William Tyndale in England, and between Ambrosius Catharinus and Cardinal Cajetan in Italy, this book brings together perspectives from biblical studies and church history and provides access to texts not previously translated into English.

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Routledge

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1317174364

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9781317174363

Academy of One

The Power and Promise of Open-Source Learning

By: David Preston

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Academy of One

The Power and Promise of Open-Source Learning

By: David Preston

The future of education goes beyond classes, textbooks, and tests – and the future is here. Academy of One introduces readers to Open-Source Learning, a model designed to transform K-12 education as we know it. Using Open-Source Learning, teachers and students create experiences together – and anyone can create all on their own. Learners ask big, interdisciplinary questions, consult the experts, and use the internet to collaborate with people around the world, get feedback that supports improvement, and distribute their work worldwide in ways that provide value far beyond a course grade. Open-Source Learning is a strategic framework that students, parents, and teachers use to explore interdisciplinary questions, create communities of critique and support, and achieve extraordinary outcomes. Open-Source Learning is free and easy to implement; Academy of One features case studies and practical steps to help you get started today.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475859066

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9781475859065

Opera for the People

English-Language Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America

By: Katherine K. Preston

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Opera for the People

English-Language Opera and Women Managers in Late 19th-Century America

By: Katherine K. Preston

Opera for the People is an in-depth examination of a forgotten chapter in American social and cultural history: the love affair that middle-class Americans had with continental opera (translated into English) in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. Author Katherine Preston reveals how-contrary to the existing historiography on the American musical culture of this period-English-language opera not only flourished in the United States during this time, but found its success significantly bolstered by the support of women impresarios, prima-donnas, managers, and philanthropists who provided financial backing to opera companies. This rich and compelling study details the lives and professional activities of several important players in American postbellum opera, including manager Effie Ober, philanthropist Jeannette Thurber, and performers/artistic directors Caroline Richings, Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa, Clara Louise Kellogg, and "the people's prima donna" Emma Abbott. Drawing from an impressive range of primary sources, including contemporaneous music and theater periodicals, playbills, memoirs, librettos, scores, and reviews and commentary on the performances in digitized newspapers, Preston tells the story of how these and other women influenced the activities of some of the more than one hundred opera companies touring the United States during the second half of the 19th century, performing opera in English for a diverse range of audiences. Countering a pervasive and misguided historical understanding of opera reception in the United States-unduly influenced by modern attitudes about the genre as elite, exclusive, expensive, and of interest only to a niche market-Opera for the People demonstrates the important (and hitherto unsuspected) place of opera in the rich cornucopia of late-century American musical theatre, which would eventually lead to the emergence of American musical comedy.

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Oxford University Press

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0190690119

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9780190690113

African Vodun

Art, Psychology, and Power

By: Suzanne Preston Blier

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African Vodun

Art, Psychology, and Power

By: Suzanne Preston Blier

This book will be of critical importance not only to those concerned with African, African American, and Caribbean art, but also to anthropologists, scholars of the African diaspora, students of comparative religion and comparative psychology, and anyone fascinated by the traditions of vodou and vodun."--Jacket.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226058603

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9780226058603

Learning to Kneel

Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching

By: Carrie J. Preston

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Learning to Kneel

Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching

By: Carrie J. Preston

In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores the nature of cross-cultural teaching, learning, and performance. Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and composers. The noh theater’s stylized choreography, poetic chant, spectacular costumes and masks, and engagement with history inspired Western artists as they reimagined new approaches to tradition and form. In Learning to Kneel, Preston locates noh’s important influence on such canonical figures as Pound, Yeats, Brecht, Britten, and Beckett. These writers learned about noh from an international cast of collaborators, and Preston traces the ways in which Japanese and Western artists influenced one another. Preston’s critical work was profoundly shaped by her own training in noh performance technique under a professional actor in Tokyo, who taught her to kneel, bow, chant, and submit to the teachings of a conservative tradition. This encounter challenged Preston’s assumptions about effective teaching, particularly her inclinations to emphasize Western ideas of innovation and subversion and to overlook the complex ranges of agency experienced by teachers and students. It also inspired new perspectives regarding the generative relationship between Western writers and Japanese performers. Pound, Yeats, Brecht, and others are often criticized for their orientalist tendencies and misappropriation of noh, but Preston’s analysis and her journey reflect a more nuanced understanding of cultural exchange.

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Columbia University Press

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0231544294

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9780231544290

Writing the City

Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem

By: Peter Preston,Paul Simpson-Housley

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Writing the City

Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem

By: Peter Preston,Paul Simpson-Housley

Arguing that classic geographical descriptions of the city fail to accomodate the crucial aspect of human life, this visualizes the city through the hopes, aspirations, disappointments and pains of international novelists and creative writers.

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Routledge

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1134843682

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9781134843688

Theories of Development

By: Peter Preston

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Theories of Development

By: Peter Preston

Dr Preston’s book, first published in 1982, presents a critical history of development studies since the Second World War, linking the recent, neo-Marxist, debate with the whole tradition in the field, going back to the work of economists like Arthur Lewis. He identifies a series of ‘schools’ and evaluates their contribution, supplying in each case a careful analysis, informed by the sociology of knowledge, of the work of its leading theorists. His final assessment draws on the critical theory of Habermas, arguing that social theorising is essentially practical; a matter of the construction, criticism and comparative ranking of ideologies, and that theorists should therefore consider what it makes sense for them to do or say, given their circumstances and the problems they address.

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Routledge

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1136855955

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9781136855955

Gatsby: The Definitive Guide

By: Preston So

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Gatsby: The Definitive Guide

By: Preston So

Get the definitive guide on Gatsby, the JavaScript framework for building blazing fast websites and applications. Used by Nike, Costa Coffee, and other companies worldwide, Gatsby is emerging as one of the key technologies in the Jamstack (JavaScript, APIs, and markup) ecosystem. With this comprehensive guide, you'll learn how to architect, build, and deploy Gatsby sites independently or with CMSs, commerce systems, and other data sources. Author Preston So begins by showing you how to set up a Gatsby site from scratch. From there, youâ??ll learn ways to use Gatsbyâ??s declarative rendering and GraphQL API, build complex offline-enabled sites, and continuously deploy Gatsby sites on a variety of platforms, including Gatsby Cloud. Discover how Gatsby integrates with many data sources and plug-ins Set up, configure, and architect Gatsby sites using Gatsby's CLI, React, JSX, and GraphQL with high performance out of the box Build an independent Gatsby site based on Markdown and data- and content-driven Gatsby sites that integrate with CMSs and commerce platforms Deploy Gatsby sites with full CI/CD and test coverage on a variety of platforms, including Netlify, Vercel, and Gatsby Cloud

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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1492087467

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9781492087465

Making the News

Journalism and News Cultures in Europe

By: Paschal Preston

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Making the News

Journalism and News Cultures in Europe

By: Paschal Preston

Making the News provides a cross-national perspective on key features of journalism and news-making cultures and the changing media landscape in contemporary Europe. . Focusing on the key trends, practices and issues in contemporary journalism and news cultures, Paschal Preston maps the major contours of change as well as the broader industrial, organizational, institutional and cultural factors shaping journalism practices over the past two decades. Moving beyond the tendency to focus on journalism trends and newsmaking practices within a single country, Making the News draws on unique, cross-national research examining current journalism practices and related newsmaking cultures in eleven West, Central and East European countries, including in-depth interviews with almost 100 senior journalists and subsequent workshop discussions with other interest groups Making the News links reviews and discussions of the existing literature to original research engaging with the views and experiences of journalists working at the ‘coal face’ of contemporary newsmaking practices, to provide an original study and useful student text.

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Routledge

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1134043503

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9781134043507

Internet Annoyances

How to Fix the Most Annoying Things about Going Online

By: Preston Gralla

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Internet Annoyances

How to Fix the Most Annoying Things about Going Online

By: Preston Gralla

Based on real-world gripes supplied by Internet users from domains far and wide, Internet Annoyances show you how to wring the most out of the Internet and Web without going crazy.

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0596007353

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9780596007355

The Francis Chan Collection

Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

By: Francis Chan,Preston M. Sprinkle

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The Francis Chan Collection

Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply

By: Francis Chan,Preston M. Sprinkle

Now available! All four of Francis Chan's New York Times bestselling books in one edition! Experience the life-changing message of Francis Chan. This new collection contains: Crazy Love: Revised & Updated Edition! God is Love. Crazy, relentless, all-powerful love. Have you ever wondered if we're missing it? Forgotten God: Francis Chan offers a compelling invitation to understand, embrace, and follow the Holy Spirit's direction in our lives. Erasing Hell: Addressing a variety of views on hell, the Bible, and the character of God, Francis Chan and Preston Sprinkle offer an eloquent response to the recent media storm surrounding questions of eternal destiny. Multiply: One plus one plus one. Every copy of Multiply is designed to do what Jesus did: make disciples who make disciples who make disciples…. until the world knows the truth of Jesus Christ.

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David C Cook

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078141203X

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9780781412032

Raymond Williams: Politics, Education, Letters

By: W John Morgan,Peter Preston

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Raymond Williams: Politics, Education, Letters

By: W John Morgan,Peter Preston

The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume reflect the full range of Raymond Williams's interests and concentrate not only on the exposition and evaluation of his ideas, but also on how they have influenced teachers, writers, and other thinkers.

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Springer

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1349228044

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9781349228041

Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine Board Review, E-Book

By: Thananan Thammongkolchai,Pichet Termsarasab,Bashar Katirji,David C. Preston

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Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine Board Review, E-Book

By: Thananan Thammongkolchai,Pichet Termsarasab,Bashar Katirji,David C. Preston

The only review book currently available in this complex field, Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine Board Review is an all-in-one, must-have resource for preparing for the neuromuscular and electrodiagnostic medicine, neurology, clinical neurophysiology and physical medicine and rehabilitation board exams. Focused, high-yield content is provided in a concise, readable manner without exhaustive or unnecessary detail, helping you make the most of your study time and efficiently prepare for exams and clinical practice. - Questions and answers are written in board-style formats, including case scenarios, high-yield facts, and questions on waveforms, pathology, and ultrasound images. - Content covers all topics from the board exams, including genetics, clinical trials, and newly FDA-approved medications. - Explanations are provided for both correct and incorrect answers and include numerous supporting tables, diagrams, and images, in addition to specially highlighted content such as high-yield facts, mnemonics, and key points. - An ideal study resource for the ABPN and ABEM/AANEM neuromuscular electrodiagnostic medicine and clinical neurophysiology boards, as well as for physical medicine and rehabilitation boards and MOC exams, and during neuromuscular/EMG rotation and training. - Any additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323790763

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9780323790765

Dawn of a New Day

By: James Preston Hardison

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Dawn of a New Day

By: James Preston Hardison

Dawn of A New Day is a thrilling, heartbreaking love story that is filled with suspense, drama, and murder. A ruthless killer caused great sadness to a loving family of three. Beth Miller and her twelve-year-old son, Danny, are heartbroken over the death of John Miller, Beth’s husband. Young Danny has vowed to kill the person who killed his father. A sheriff’s detective named Randy Johnson has been assigned to solve John Miller’s murder. He has a daughter named Shelia, who is about Danny’s age. Danny disobeys his grandfather’s warning for him to stay away from a place named the Wellington house. Harry Spears is a very wealthy man but an extremely shy individual that lives next door to Beth and Danny Miller. With the passing of his wife and now his mother with terminal cancer, he stays inside his home much of the time, saddened and lonely. Marcus Hendrix, a sheriff’s deputy and coworker with Randy Johnson, is a single middle-aged man looking for the right lady to be his wife. Doris Thigpen, a widow, has been a nurse for many years, and she never thought that one day, she would meet the man of her dreams. This novel is written for a wide audience—young and old.

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AuthorHouse

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154626745X

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9781546267454

The Chʻing Imperial Household Department

A Study of Its Organization and Principal Functions, 1662-1796

By: Preston M. Torbert

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The Chʻing Imperial Household Department

A Study of Its Organization and Principal Functions, 1662-1796

By: Preston M. Torbert

This is the first full-length institutional study of the organization and functions of the Imperial Household Department under Ch'ing rule. That department constituted the emperor's 'personal bureaucracy.' In tracing the complex structure of this organization, Preston Torbert has avoided an exhaustive listing of nominal offices and their prescribed duties; instead, he has described the distinctive 'social groups' that made up the departments total personnel-the bondservants, the eunuchs, and the palace maids.

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Harvard Univ Asia Center

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0674127617

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9780674127616

Still Life with Crows

By: Douglas Preston,Lincoln Child

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Still Life with Crows

By: Douglas Preston,Lincoln Child

When a series of murders strikes small-town Kansas, FBI Special Agent Pendergast must track down a killer or a curse -- either way, no one is safe. A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland. No one is safe.

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Grand Central Publishing

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0759528098

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9780759528093

Dancing in the Rainbow

Memoire

By: Stephen Preston

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Dancing in the Rainbow

Memoire

By: Stephen Preston

The pages of this manuscript tell one man’s personal story, exploring the full range of human emotions that are symbolic of the masks of show business and depicting some classic and wonderful tales involving some legendary ladies from the world of entertainment. Through the eyes and heart of Stephen Preston, this lead dancer, singer, and actor makes the reader feel like they were there with Judy Garland at the Palace in New York, the Palladium in London, the Las Vegas stages with Betty Grable, Debbie Reynolds; some off-the-wall, hilarious escapades with Tallulah Bankhead, and an inside look at the social Me of Garland’s daughter, Lisa Minnelli. Mr. Preston, who performed with and became close friends with these major stars, gives you a first-hand look into the moments of joy, laughter, success and, yes, some tears and even failure. Written in a light, candid, and sometimes almost campy kind of style, this is the first time a book has come along that does not gossip about their failed marriages, sex lives or prey upon their human weaknesses! In fact, we see a side of these bigger-than-life performers that, in the past, little has been written or talked about The reader will come along on train and plane trips; be there backstage at Broadway, television, movie, and night club performances. They’ll sit with the Royal Family at the Palladium in London and will party at the Beverly Hills private homes of Hollywood celebrities. And the reader will even witness the final days of Betty Grable’s long, hard battle with cancer. “Dancing in the Rainbow" is a fascinating account of some of the days of their lives, including Stephen Preston’s. Those days are gone and so are some of the people, but the time spent is what can make life on this planet so very interesting and worthwhile! Mr. Preston is retired from show business but is an active business man and lives in Palm Springs, California.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1499058853

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9781499058857

Being-With in Contemporary Performing Arts

By: Katia Arfara,Isabelle Barbéris,Eliane Beaufils,Chloé Déchery,Leon Gabriel,Heiner Goebbels,Narges Hashempour,Stéphane Hervé,Eva Holling,Ivana Müller,Marie Preston,Bernhard Siebert,Gerald Siegmund,Marie Vandenbussche-Cont,Kai van Eikels

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Being-With in Contemporary Performing Arts

The concept of being-with developed by the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy asks a fundamental question about human life, inasmuch as we have always been and will be co-existent with people and environments. All modes of sense-making and subjectivation, but also presence, can only occur within a context and through interaction. This is why historical forms of theater have frequently been viewed as sites of communality and why critical approaches have questioned concepts such as 'sense', 'meaning' and 'habitus'. Like literature, theater has also inherited the scene of myth: It satisfies our need for narration, interpretation and to share in something. In turn, the joint creation of meaning in scenic practices is also part of the traditional idealization of the theater – but is this ideal purely mythical? The authors of this book investigate and explore how meaning is being questioned or liberated in contemporary performances, and how individual thinking/action can be articulated to others, paving the way for other gestures, theatrical processes of recognition and the performative sharing process (of sense-making).

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Neofelis Verlag

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3958082041

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9783958082045

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