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Murder, Curtis Smith
A Picture Of Jayne Mansfield, Tom Stoner
Interview With George Saunders, George Saunders
Luxury, Kevin Canty
Richard Hugo On His Poem What Thou Lovest Well Remains American, Richard Hugo
Richard Hugo On His Poem What Thou Lovest Well Remains American, Richard Hugo
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The Heart Is A Muscle Still, Candice Rowe
Restaging Hysteria: Mary Wigman As Writer And Dancer , Laura A. Mclary
Restaging Hysteria: Mary Wigman As Writer And Dancer , Laura A. Mclary
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Mary Wigman was not only a leading proponent of the early twentieth-century Expressionist dance movement, but also a writer of poetry and short poetic prose. Despite her assertion that dance was beyond language, she wrote often about dance in an attempt to articulate the kinesthetic experience of dance through languages. This interdisciplinary study explores the intersection of dance and writing for Wigman, focusing on gender coding in writing and dance within the context of early twentieth-century dialogues. Despite the pervasive equation of (feminine) hysteria with dance and (masculine) subjectivity with authorship, Wigman engaged in both activities. I argue that Wigman …
Introduction, William Kittredge
Letter From Montana, J. Robert Lennon
Plans (In Brief), Daniel Byrne
The Next Worst Thing, William J. Cobb
Epiphanies At The Supermarket: An Interview With Brigitte Kronauer , Jutta Ittner
Epiphanies At The Supermarket: An Interview With Brigitte Kronauer , Jutta Ittner
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Brigitte Kronauer has been called "the greatest German [female] fiction writer of our time" (Marcel Reich-Ranicki). Her stories, novels, and criticism have established her as a uniquely sophisticated literary voice and won her many literary prizes. Kronauer's trademarks are her laser-sharp vision, her luminous prose, and the intricate structures of her uncannily realistic literary universes. Finding the mystical in the mundane and exposing human foibles with subtle irony, Kronauer creates, in the words of one critic, epiphanies at the supermarket. Beneath its everyday surface her fiction deals with the eternal human questions of life, death, and love. At a still …