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Acting in the night [[electronic resource] ] : Macbeth and the places of the Civil War / / Alexander Nemerov
| Acting in the night [[electronic resource] ] : Macbeth and the places of the Civil War / / Alexander Nemerov |
| Autore | Nemerov Alexander |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina | 792.0973/09034 |
| Soggetto topico |
Theater and society - Washington (D.C.) - History - 19th century
Theater - Washington (D.C.) - History - 19th century |
| Soggetto non controllato |
1863
19th century abraham lincoln acting american art american history american life american politics art historians civil war buffs civil war era civil war democracy discussion books drama dramatic performance dramatic english drama historical performances literary criticism live arts macbeth performing arts play performance poetic consciousness politics shakespeare technology theatre tragedy united states wallace stevens washington dc |
| ISBN |
1-283-27728-X
9786613277282 0-520-94744-4 |
| Classificazione |
15.85
18.05 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: A Drop That Dyes the Seas -- 1. A Stone's Throw: Charlotte Cushman -- 2. The Flame of Place: Abraham Lincoln -- 3. The Glass Case: Interior Life in Washington, D.C. -- 4. Acoustic Shadows: The Battle of Bristoe Station -- 5. Center of Echoes: Castle Murray, Fauquier County, Virginia -- 6. Ghosts: The Death of Colonel Thomas Ru‹n, October 17, 1863 -- 7. Sound and Fury: Nature in Virginia -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Illustrations -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791880103321 |
Nemerov Alexander
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
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Re-imagining Greek tragedy on the American stage [[electronic resource] /] / Helene P. Foley
| Re-imagining Greek tragedy on the American stage [[electronic resource] /] / Helene P. Foley |
| Autore | Foley Helene P. <1942-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 375 Seiten) |
| Disciplina | 792.1/20973 |
| Collana | Sather classical lectures |
| Soggetto topico |
Greek drama - History and criticism
Theater - United States - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
20th century literacy
american culture and politics american interpretation american theater books for english students classical greek literature coffee table books controversial topics dramatic easy to read educational books engaging greek tragedy historical nonfiction history of american dance history of american theater how to write a tragedy intense emotion interpretation of greek tragedy learning while reading lively page turner performing arts shakespeare theater film theatrical |
| ISBN |
1-283-62280-7
0-520-95365-7 9780520953659 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- One. Greek Tragedy Finds an American Audience -- Two. Making Total Theater in America -- Three. Democratizing Greek Tragedy -- Four. Reenvisioning the Hero -- Five. Reimagining Medea as American Other -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785725903321 |
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Foley Helene P. <1942->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 | ||
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Searching for Sycorax : black women's hauntings of contemporary horror / / Kinitra D. Brooks
| Searching for Sycorax : black women's hauntings of contemporary horror / / Kinitra D. Brooks |
| Autore | Brooks Kinitra Dechaun |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (220 pages) |
| Disciplina | 823/.08738099287 |
| Soggetto topico |
Horror in literature
African American women authors Women authors, Black - History and criticism Feminist theory |
| Soggetto non controllato |
England
african literature african diaspora haiti horror fiction horror jamaica literature shakespeare tempest trinidad women |
| ISBN |
0-8135-8464-7
0-8135-8463-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Searching for Sycorax: black women and horror -- The importance of neglected intersections: characterizations of black women in mainstream horror texts -- Black feminism and the struggle for literary respectability -- Black women writing fluid fiction: an open challenge to genre normativity -- Folkloric horror: a new way of reading black women's creative horror -- Conclusion Sycorax's power of revision: reconstructing black women's counter-narratives -- Appendix: creative work summary. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796599203321 |
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Brooks Kinitra Dechaun
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| New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] | ||
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Searching for Sycorax : black women's hauntings of contemporary horror / / Kinitra D. Brooks
| Searching for Sycorax : black women's hauntings of contemporary horror / / Kinitra D. Brooks |
| Autore | Brooks Kinitra Dechaun |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (220 pages) |
| Disciplina | 823/.08738099287 |
| Soggetto topico |
Horror in literature
African American women authors Women authors, Black - History and criticism Feminist theory |
| Soggetto non controllato |
England
african literature african diaspora haiti horror fiction horror jamaica literature shakespeare tempest trinidad women |
| ISBN |
0-8135-8464-7
0-8135-8463-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Searching for Sycorax: black women and horror -- The importance of neglected intersections: characterizations of black women in mainstream horror texts -- Black feminism and the struggle for literary respectability -- Black women writing fluid fiction: an open challenge to genre normativity -- Folkloric horror: a new way of reading black women's creative horror -- Conclusion Sycorax's power of revision: reconstructing black women's counter-narratives -- Appendix: creative work summary. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816703103321 |
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Brooks Kinitra Dechaun
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| New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] | ||
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Shakespeare's metrical art [[electronic resource] /] / George T. Wright
| Shakespeare's metrical art [[electronic resource] /] / George T. Wright |
| Autore | Wright George Thaddeus |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1988 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (366 p.) |
| Disciplina | 822.3/3 |
| Soggetto topico | English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Versification |
| Soggetto non controllato |
academic
accentual chaucer creative writing iambic pentameter line of poetry literary analysis literary history meter metrical style metrical milton pentameter poet poetic analysis poetic forms poetic line poetic meter poetic poetry collection poetry reference book poetry studies poetry rhythm scansion scholarly shakespeare sidney writing poetry |
| ISBN |
1-282-35496-5
9786612354960 0-520-91193-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Iambic Pentameter Line -- 2. Chaucer and Wyatt: Early Expressive Pentameters -- 3. The Sixteenth-Century Line: Pattern and Variation -- 4. Flexibility and Ease in Four Older Poets -- 5. An Art of Small Differences: Shakespeare's Sonnets -- 6. The Verse of Shakespeare's Theater -- 7. Prose and Other Diversions -- 8. Short and Shared Lines -- 9. Long Lines -- 10. Shakespeare's Syllabic Ambiguity: More Than Meets the Ear -- 11. Lines with Extra Syllables -- 12. Lines with Omitted Syllables -- 13. Trochees -- 14. The Play of Phrase and Line -- 15. Shakespeare's Metrical Technique in Dramatic Passages -- 16. What Else Shakespeare's Meter Reveals -- 17. Some Metrically Expressive Features in Donne and Milton -- 18. Conclusion: Verse as Speech, Theater, Text, Tradition, Illusion -- Appendix A: Percentage Distribution of Prose in Shakespeare's Plays -- Appendix B: Main Types of Deviant Lines in Shakespeare's Plays -- Appendix C: Short and Shared Lines -- Notes -- Main Works Cited or Consulted -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778069703321 |
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Wright George Thaddeus
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1988 | ||
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