The aim of this book is to provide you with an informative and accessible
guide to the study of drama and performance and to equip you with
an appropriate vocabulary for discussing these areas of human activity.
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Anthony Warner read the first draft of this book and offered many valuable
comments which have helped me to improve both the organisation
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This is the second of the three volumes which, as I mentioned in the first, sums up,
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This book is a concise glossary of terms (words, expressions) used
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This Critical Companion to Ernest Hemingway
is an extensive revision and reorganization of
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help of several people in Hemingway studies
CliffsNotes Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer supplements the
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In her obituary for her lover, Franz Kafka, Milena Jesenská
sketched a modern Gnostic, a writer whose vision was of the
kenoma, the cosmic emptiness into which we have been thrown
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Joyce had begun an autobiographical novel as early as 1904,
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years was clearly compelling
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a declaration of war. I would almost call it a "third world manifesto,"
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bereft of ...
When RobertWechsler wrote his highly acclaimed study on literary translation,
Performing Without a Stage (Wechsler, 1998), he was not specifically
thinking of theatre
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of many hands, by specialists working in diVerent Welds and periods.
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