Includes: 1] 'Writing About World Literature' (2nd Edition) (UNLV Edition) by Karen Gocsik 2] 'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe 3] 'The Norton Anthology of World Literature' (3rd Edition) (Vol. D, E, F).

Writing About World Literature Norton Anthology Pa

Martin Puchner

W.W.Norton&Company

eBook Access Card for The Norton Anthology of World Literature Volume 1 Shorter 4th Edition

Norton Publishers

The Norton Anthology of World Literature (Shorter Edition) (Volume 1)

W.W.Norton

Grounded equally in discussions of theater history, literary genre, and theory, Martin Puchner's Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama explores the conflict between avant-garde theater and modernism. While the avant-garde celebrated all things theatrical, a dominant strain of modernism tended to define itself against the theater, valuing lyric poetry and the novel instead. Defenders of the theater dismiss modernism's aversion to the stage and its mimicking actors as one more form of the old "anti-theatrical" prejudice. But Puchner shows that modernism's ambivalence about the theater was shared even by playwrights and directors and thus was a productive force responsible for some of the greatest achievements in dramatic literature and theater.
A reaction to the aggressive theatricality of Wagner and his followers, the modernist backlash against the theater led to the peculiar genre of the closet drama―a theatrical piece intended to be read rather than staged―whose long-overlooked significance Puchner traces from the theatrical texts of Mallarmé and Stein to the dramatic "Circe" chapter of Joyce's Ulysses. At times, then, the anti-theatrical impulse leads to a withdrawal from the theater. At other times, however, it returns to the stage, when Yeats blends lyric poetry with Japanese Nôh dancers, when Brecht controls the stage with novelistic techniques, and when Beckett buries his actors in barrels and behind obsessive stage directions. The modernist theater thus owes much to the closet drama whose literary strategies it blends with a new mise en scène. While offering an alternative history of modernist theater and literature, Puchner also provides a new account of the contradictory forces within modernism.

Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama

Humor & Entertainment

Johns Hopkins University Press

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The Written World: How Literature Shaped History

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Granta Books

The Written World: How Literature Shaped History [Paperback] Puchner, Martin

Granta

‘A book about history, language and culture wrapped up in a detective story […] Fascinating’ - Guardian recommended by Michael Rosen "The story of the secret language of Central Europe and its legacy on the author's hidden family history, from the author of The Written World. Since the Middle Ages, vagrants and thieves in Central Europe have spoken Rotwelsch, a secret language influenced by Yiddish and written in rudimentary signs. When Martin Puchner inherited a family archive, it led him on a journey into this extraordinary language but also into his family's connections to the Party, for whom Rotwelsch held a particular significance. A riveting story of the mindset and milieu of Central Europe and of the way language can be used to evade oppression, The Language of Thieves is also a deeply moving reckoning with a family's buried past."

The Language of Thieves: The Story of Rotwelsch and One Family's Secret History

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Granta Publications Ltd.

Book 9781804182536

Ithaka

Culture: The surprising connections and influences between civilisations. ‘Genius' - William Dalrymple

Bonnier Books Ltd

CULTURE

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