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Richard Dadd is a trickster, an Elizabethan Puck in a Victorian insane asylum. His existence foreshadows the inexplicable labyrinths of contemporary existence, entering the fragmented shards of today’s world long before the artists who would try to map it.
Richard Dadd is a trickster, an Elizabethan Puck in a Victorian insane asylum. His existence foreshadows the inexplicable labyrinths of contemporary existence, entering the fragmented shards of today’s world long before the artists who would try to map it.
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Addressing the question “what’s in a balcony scene?”, this book discusses its representation in a number of adaptions of Romeo and Juliet. It shows that there are several fresh angles from which to look at the topic, which, in turn, provide unique insights into the balcony scene.
Addressing the question “what’s in a balcony scene?”, this book discusses its representation in a number of adaptions of Romeo and Juliet. It shows that there are several fresh angles from which to look at the topic, which, in turn, provide unique insights into the balcony scene.
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Apocalyptic Projections
A Study of Past Predictions, Current Trends and Future Intimations as Related to Film and Literature
Apocalyptic Projections have been pondered since Biblical times. While the concept of apocalypse evokes images of total oblivion, threads of possibility and redemption offer a potential fabric of hope.
Apocalyptic Projections have been pondered since Biblical times. While the concept of apocalypse evokes images of total oblivion, threads of possibility and redemption offer a potential fabric of hope.
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This volume explores how seventeenth-century intellectuals and officials conceived of interpretation and read their world. It examines practices from literature, translation, and science to political ceremonies, shedding new light on the culture of the period.
This volume explores how seventeenth-century intellectuals and officials conceived of interpretation and read their world. It examines practices from literature, translation, and science to political ceremonies, shedding new light on the culture of the period.
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Old Masters in New Interpretations
Readings in Literature and Visual Culture
This volume presents a variety of new interpretations of a selection of well-known works of verbal and visual culture. It describes how the two spheres of literature and broadly understood art interfuse, affect, re-shape, and complement each other.
This volume presents a variety of new interpretations of a selection of well-known works of verbal and visual culture. It describes how the two spheres of literature and broadly understood art interfuse, affect, re-shape, and complement each other.
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In the Jaws of the Leviathan
Genocide Fiction and Film
How do we witness the unspeakable? This book analyzes portrayals of genocide in film and fiction from Africa, Asia, and South America. It contrasts the indirect metaphors of commercial media with the direct, personal gazes found in experimental works.
How do we witness the unspeakable? This book analyzes portrayals of genocide in film and fiction from Africa, Asia, and South America. It contrasts the indirect metaphors of commercial media with the direct, personal gazes found in experimental works.
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The Indigenous Voice of Poetomachia
The Various Perspectives of Textuality and Performance
In an era of struggling individuality, how can theatre stage individual voices? This collection of essays from scholars across the world explores different perspectives of textuality and performance, pushing beyond prevailing clichés with indigenous perspectives.
In an era of struggling individuality, how can theatre stage individual voices? This collection of essays from scholars across the world explores different perspectives of textuality and performance, pushing beyond prevailing clichés with indigenous perspectives.
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Words into Pictures
E. E. Cummings’ Art Across Borders
This collection of new essays explores E. E. Cummings as both poet and artist. Bringing together the verbal and the visual, the volume examines under-researched fields of his unique, genre-crossing work.
This collection of new essays explores E. E. Cummings as both poet and artist. Bringing together the verbal and the visual, the volume examines under-researched fields of his unique, genre-crossing work.
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The Partition of India
Beyond Improbable Lines
This anthology considers the representation of one of the most traumatic events in the history of India―the 1947 Partition―in literature and cinematographic adaptations. It discusses various strategies of representation at work in the process of remembering Partition.
This anthology considers the representation of one of the most traumatic events in the history of India―the 1947 Partition―in literature and cinematographic adaptations. It discusses various strategies of representation at work in the process of remembering Partition.
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Diversity and Homogeneity
The Politics of Nation, Ethnicity and Gender
This edited volume explores issues related to the nation, ethnicity and gender in literature, film, media and theatrical performance in both the UK and the USA, investigating the problematics of migration, citizenship, terrorism, and equality in modern multicultural societies.
This edited volume explores issues related to the nation, ethnicity and gender in literature, film, media and theatrical performance in both the UK and the USA, investigating the problematics of migration, citizenship, terrorism, and equality in modern multicultural societies.
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This book explores the creative imagination in Victorian England through five key figures: John Ruskin, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater and Arthur Symons. It contrasts the views of theoreticians with the experiences of practitioners.
This book explores the creative imagination in Victorian England through five key figures: John Ruskin, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater and Arthur Symons. It contrasts the views of theoreticians with the experiences of practitioners.
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Manikin Plays
Two Contemporary Plays
Two plays reflecting on contemporary Indian society. Stone Idols deconstructs the Buddha myth to explore identity. The Beauty Parlour shows a woman victimized by the male gaze. The collection addresses sexuality and gender with innovative style and insight.
Two plays reflecting on contemporary Indian society. Stone Idols deconstructs the Buddha myth to explore identity. The Beauty Parlour shows a woman victimized by the male gaze. The collection addresses sexuality and gender with innovative style and insight.
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The Afterlives of Narratives
Adaptation and Appropriation in British Theatre and Performance
This book analyzes how narratives are reinterpreted in British theatre. Discussing case studies from Shakespeare to Zadie Smith, this volume interrogates adaptation and appropriation, exploring the dialogic relationship between source texts and their contemporary reimaginings.
This book analyzes how narratives are reinterpreted in British theatre. Discussing case studies from Shakespeare to Zadie Smith, this volume interrogates adaptation and appropriation, exploring the dialogic relationship between source texts and their contemporary reimaginings.
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