1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452130703321

Titolo

Clowns, fools and picaros [[electronic resource] ] : popular forms in theatre, fiction and film / / edited by David Robb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007

ISBN

94-012-0539-6

1-4356-1338-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Collana

At the interface, probing the boundaries ; ; 43

Altri autori (Persone)

RobbDavid <1962->

Disciplina

791.33

Soggetti

Clowns

Fools and jesters

Theater

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on papers from a conference held at the Queen's University of Belfast in September 4-6, 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / David Robb -- Where The Antic Sits / Robert Cheesmond -- Modern Tragicomedy and the Fool / Faye Ran -- The Postmodern Theatre Clown / Ashley Tobias -- Nietzsche and the Praise of Masks / Rüdiger Görner -- Clowning Around at the Limits of Representation: On Fools, Fetishes and Bruce Nauman’s Clown Torture / Maxim Leonid Weintraub -- An American Circus: the Lynch Victim as Clown / Barbara Lewis -- The Court Jester in Nigerian Drama / Kayode Gboyega Kofoworola -- “Fratello Arlecchino”: Clowns, Kings, and Bombs in Bali / Ron Jenkins -- Scaramouche: The Mask and the Millenium. / Stephen Knapper -- The Cinema of Masks: Commedia dell’Arte and Jean Renoir’s The Golden Coach / Des O’Rawe -- From Nestroy to Wenzel and Mensching: carnivalesque revolutionaries in the German and Austrian theatrical tradition / David Robb -- Karolos Koun, Karaghiozis and The Birds: Aristophanes as Popular Theatre / Marina Kotzamani -- The Clown as Social Critic: Kerouac’s Vision / Stephen Llano -- Picaresque Narratology: Lazarillo de Tormes and Edgar Hilsenrath’s Der Nazi und der Friseur / Bernhard Malkmus -- Notes on Contributors.



Sommario/riassunto

By its very nature the clown, as represented in art, is an interdisciplinary phenomenon. In whichever artform it appears – fiction, drama, film, photography or fine art – it carries the symbolic association of its usage in popular culture, be it ritual festivities, street theatre or circus. The clown, like its extended family of fools, jesters, picaros and tricksters, has a variety of functions all focussed around its status and image of being “other.” Frequently a marginalized figure, it provides the foil for the shortcomings of dominant discourse or the absurdities of human behaviour. Clowns, Fools and Picaros represents the latest research on the clown, bringing together for the first time studies from four continents: Europe, America, Africa and Asia. It attempts to ascertain commonalities, overlaps and differences between artistic expressions of the “clownesque” from these various continents and genres, and above all, to examine the role of the clown in our cultures today. This volume is of interest for scholars of political and comic drama, film and visual art as well as scholars of comparative literature and anthropology.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461272003321

Titolo

The postconventional personality [[electronic resource] ] : assessing, researching, and theorizing higher development / / edited by Angela H. Pfaffenberger, Paul W. Marko, and Allan Combs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2011

ISBN

1-4384-3466-9

1-4416-9235-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology

Altri autori (Persone)

PfaffenbergerAngela H. <1957->

MarkoPaul W. <1945->

CombsAllan <1942->

Disciplina

155.2/5

Soggetti

Transpersonal psychology

Psychology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Assessing advanced personality development -- Assessing postconventional personality : how valid and reliable is the sentence completion test? / Angela H. Pfaffenberger -- My brain made me do it : brain maturation and levels of self-development / Fred Travis and Sue Brown -- Generating and measuring practical differences in leadership performance at postconventional action-logics / Elaine Herdman Barker and William R. Torbert -- A report from the scoring trenches / Susanne R. Cook-Greuter -- Emerging research about postconventional development -- The issue of highest stages in structural-developmental theories / Tobias Krettenauer -- Exploring facilitative agents that allow alterego development / Paul W. Marko -- The postconventional self : ego maturity, growth stories -- and happiness? / Jack J. Bauer -- Postconventional ego development and self-transcendence in religious renunciates / Heidi Page -- Leadership at postconventional stages of adult development / Bill Joiner -- Theories of advanced development -- Is higher better? : a review and analysis of the correlates of postconventional ego development / Tracie L. Blumentritt -- The challenge of ego development : intentional versus active development / Laura King -- Transcendent experience and the development of the postrepresentational self / Dennis Heaton -- Believing as if : postconventional stages, cognitive complexity, and postformal religious constructions / James Meredith Day -- A dynamical view of the personality in evolution / Allan Combs and Stanley Krippner -- The prism self revisited : the matter of integrity / Judith Stevens-Long.