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Roth's Contribution To The Narrativization Of Illness, Miriam Jaffe-Foger

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Roth's Contribution to the Narrativization of Illness" Miriam Jaffe-Foger argues that Philipp Roth's fiction represents him as an empath, a writer who prescribes for modern medicine a dose of humanity in listening to the pain of others. Using Roth's The Anatomy Lesson, The Dying Animal, and Exit Ghost as primary source material in combination with theories from medical anthropology, Jaffe-Foger suggests that Roth is an inspiration for the field of narrative medicine. Jaffe-Foger examines the art in organizing narratives to tell these stories. Jaffe-Foger also argues against misogynist views of Roth as he represents woman's …

Roth's Fiction From Nemesis To Nemesis, Emily Budick

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Roth's Fiction from Nemesis to Nemesis" Emily Budick discusses Philip Roth's novel Nemesis as the culminating work of a career in which one nemesis or another has afflicted almost all of the author's protagonists. During the bulk of Roth's career, the hero's nemesis was generally, as in the ordinary, literary usage of the term, the protagonist's enemy, whether Judge Wapter in The Ghost Writer or the alter-Roth in The Counterlife. In Nemesis Roth restores the word nemesis to its classical meaning: Nemesis, as the goddess of revenge and cosmic balance. The nemesis in Roth's novel, therefore, …

Literary Adaptations Of James In Roth's, Ozick's, And Franzen's Work, John Carlos Rowe

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Literary Adaptations of James in Roth's, Ozick's, and Franzen's Work" John Carlos Rowe posits that Henry James continues to exert a powerful influence on contemporary writers. Given the dramatic social, economic, and political changes from modern to postmodern eras, his continuing influence requires explanation. Rowe considers three US-American novelists—Philip Roth, Cynthia Ozick, and Jonathan Franzen—who are influenced by James and presents an interpretation of James's continuing impact. Despite James's reputation as a cosmopolitan modern who influenced global literature in significant ways, US-American writers attempt to "Americanize" him. Their effort expresses the problem of contemporary US-American literary practice …

Bibliography For The Study Of Phillip Roth's Works, Gustavo Sánchez-Canales, Victoria Aarons

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Teaching Willmore, James Evans

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

Teaching Aphra Behn’s The Rover for nearly four decades, I have witnessed a considerable shift in students’ attitudes toward the play, especially toward Willmore. More positive about his character in the 1970s and 1980s, they have had a much more negative assessment since then. The only available video version, the Women’s Theatre Trust production, compounds my pedagogical problem through filming techniques and choice of actor; emphasizing male violence against women, its interpretation parallels feminist criticism of the 1990s. Asking students to examine theater history may lead them to see that Behn does not completely match this ideological paradigm. The original …

La Mentalidad Rupturista De Alfonso Vallejo Durante La Transición Política Española (1975-1982): Análisis De Su Obra Cangrejos De Pared, José Leonardo Ontiveros G.

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

En este artículo se explora el tipo de mentalidad desde la cual, el dramaturgo español Alfonso Vallejo, estaría escribiendo su obra escrita durante la transición política española. Vallejo transpone su visión del mundo a través de una actitud rupturista y utiliza lenguajes vanguardistas para expresar su inconformidad con su entorno. A través de esa conciencia de ruptura logra establecer conexiones con los problemas internos del individuo inmerso en un entorno enajenante y opresivo. Analizaremos su obra Cangrejos de pared y daremos cuenta de los motivos que lo impulsan a expresarse y las estrategias artísticas que adopta. Este trabajo es realizado …

Una Relectura De La Violencia En Los Papeles Del Infierno De Enrique Buenaventura, Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

En este ensayo se lleva a cabo un análisis de la violencia en tres obras del ciclo Los papeles del infierno de Enrique Buenaventura. Con ese propósito se aplican las categorías de violencia propuestas por S. Žižek y los análisis sobre la violencia en el teatro latinoamericano de ese periodo llevados a cabo por Severino Albuquerque (1991) y Diana Taylor (1991). Concluyo que este ciclo es un conjunto de obras que da testimonio de la violencia sistémica y simbólica en Colombia durante los años 50 y 60, y que las obras de Buenaventura hacen visible la violencia objetiva por medio …

La Pervivencia De La Tragedia Y Sus Ecos En El Teatro Mexicano: Las Adoraciones De Juan Tovar, Claudia Gidi

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

En este ensayo se retoma el debate en torno de la pervivencia del género trágico. Se revisan algunos de los rasgos esenciales de la tragedia en la tradición clásica, y se propone entenderla como un fenómeno artístico que se transforma a lo largo de la historia. Se cierra la reflexión con el estudio de algunas de las características más importantes del género en Las adoraciones, del mexicano Juan Tovar.

Semejanzas Conceptuales Entre La Dramaturgia De Alfonso Sastre Y Yusuf Al-’Ani, Muaed Ahmed Ali

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

Este artículo estudia desde el punto de vista comparatista la producción dramática del español Alfonso Sastre y el iraquí Yusuf Al-’Ani en los años sesenta del siglo XX. Se destaca la tarea renovadora que en este periodo lleva a cabo cada uno de estos dramaturgos. Alfonso Sastre formula su estética de la Tragedia compleja y Yusuf Al-’Ani denomina la Comedia negra (Al-comedia asawdaa). Se explica la concepción dramática literaria que defienden, los motivos que los han empujado adoptar estas nuevas líneas teatrales y el mensaje que transmiten a través de sendas obras teatrales que han sido seleccionadas: Crónicas romanas y …

Darwin Y El Niño De El Sexto Sentido, David Sergio

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Procedimiento Práctico De Enseñanza Para El Desarrollo De La Memoria Corporal En El Actor A Través De Las Acciones Físicas, Rubén Arcas Olivera, Iván Herrera Peco, Ana Colomer Sánchez

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

En el presente trabajo se plantea un procedimiento práctico de ejercicios físicos de enseñanza basado en la teoría de las acciones físicas utilizadas para el entrenamiento de la memoria corporal, con el objeto de evaluar si existe una relación directa entre este procedimiento y la mejora en la capacidad de conseguir una interpretación fluida y orgánica en los actores.

Dicha evaluación se ha realizado, mediante el diseño de un cuestionario específico que ha sido presentado y respondido por actores, voluntarios, tanto previa como posteriormente a la realización de las sesiones prácticas.

The Disappearance Of The Character In The Theatre Of Angélica Liddell: The Nubila Wahlheim Paradigm, Jesús Eguía Armenteros

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

In this article I will analyze the negation of the fictional character for the Artistic Poetics of Theatre inside Theatre in Angélica Liddell’s work Monólogo necesario para la extinción de Nubila Wahlheim y Extinción in order to explain her artistic strategy.

Representaciones De La Corte En La Poesía De Quevedo, Carmen García De La Rasilla

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Reseñas

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

La Inevitable Pareja: Paralelismo Y Feminidad Literaria En El Cine Español De La Democracia, Juan Senís Fernández

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

En este artículo se estudia cómo el uso del paralelismo contribuye a afianzar ciertas características literarias consideradas típicamente femeninas dentro del imaginario cultural colectivo durante la España de la democracia. Para ello, y después de explicar en qué consiste dicho uso, se realiza el estudio de un corpus de películas españolas estrenadas en dicho periodo que cumplen con las siguientes características: incluir una escritora entre sus personajes y no ser ni adaptaciones de obras literarias ni biografías fílmicas. A través de este estudio, se intenta demostrar cómo estas películas tienen un efecto paradójico en el imaginario colectivo, ya que, por …

Threading Art: The Dynamics Of Costume Design And Costume Studies., Tavares De Melo Isabela Marchi

Theses and Dissertations

The main objective of this research is to demonstrate the strong relationship between design and history in the process of studying and creating costumes for theatre. Costumes are considered an important area in the study of material culture, which has been given more visibility within academia. Over the past few decades, the number of museums and universities with collections dedicated exclusively to costumes and textiles has noticeably increased, recognizing them as works of art worthy of being preserved. Considering costumes’ ability to document time and space, and to visually tell stories, many theatre departments have implemented methods to organize their …

Classic Tales With A Contemporary Twist: A Series Of One Woman Shows, Melissa - Vera Misa Maramara

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a collection of one person shows radically adapted from different literary texts, particularly Liz and Dick, Alice in Wonderland, and the Oresteia, which I performed in the University of Arkansas. It includes my statement of artistry, the process of adaptation to performance, and my personal archive of production materials.

Telling Tales As Oral Performance: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Of Storytelling In Ireland, Scotland And Southern Appalachia, Annalee Tull

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

I sought to link, through this paper, cultural performances of identity through storytelling in Ireland, Scotland, and southern Appalachia. I evaluated storytelling practices, whether it was a public or private performance, using symbolic interactionism, dramatist theory, narrative paradigm, and performance theory. The author studied abroad in Ireland and Scotland through the East Tennessee State University Appalachian, Scottish, and Irish Studies Program and experienced an array of stories. She then evaluated her own experiences with storytelling from growing up in southern Appalachia and visited the International Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN. The research is rooted in grounded theory from ethnographies, with …

The Full Monty, Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2013-2014 Season

Six unemployed steelworkers in Buffalo, New York are miserable. They have no cash and no prospects. Meanwhile, they catch their wives and other women going crazy over male strippers. The six men then set out to make some quick cash showing off their "real man" bodies by becoming a team of male strippers. As the guys work through their fears, self-consciousness and anxieties they find strength as a group and overcome their inner demons.

https://stageagent.com/shows/musical/2441/the-full-monty

Ua68 Arts & Letters :The Magazine Of Potter College At Western Kentucky University, David Lee, Dean, Kelly Scott, Managing Editor

PCAL Publications

No abstract provided.

The Importance Of Being Earnest (2014), Otterbein University Theatre And Dance Department

2013-2014 Season

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. It's the story of two bachelors, John 'Jack' Worthing and Algernon 'Algy' Moncrieff, who create alter egos named Ernest to escape their tiresome lives. www.importanceofbeingearnest.co.uk/synopsis/

“Everything Teeming With Life”: A Critical Examination Of Thomas Eccleshare’S Pastoral, Leah Vitello

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

Unlike most apocalyptic stories, Thomas Eccleshare’s play, Pastoral, flips the genre on its head with its original take on what could come of the relationship between humans and nature. Throughout the course of the play, readers follow along as an elderly woman, Moll, and her companions attempt to make sense of their new ecologically lavish environment. Rather than humankind dominating nature, Eccleshare posits the question of what could happen if nature dominated over man. Pastoral is a play in which the countryside has become intrepidly abundant; however, rather than providing for humankind, nature attacks it. Set near a shopping center …

Intertextuality In Beckett's And Ağaoğlu's Work, Elmas Şahín

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Intertextuality in Beckett's and Ağaoğlu's Work" Elmas Şahín discusses Adalet Ağaoğlu's 1973 novel Ölmeye Yatmak (Lying Down to Die) and Samuel Beckett's 1950 Malone Dies in terms of intertextuality. Şahín employs tenets of comparative literature in order to analyze the two texts with regard to form and content and focuses on the on protagonists' worlds. In Şahín's interpretation, Ağaoğlu's protagonist Aysel is narrated in postmodern intertextuality as an individual of our days alienated from society, searching for her self/selves as she cannot succeed in dying. Both Beckett's and Ağaoğlu's protagonists attempt to "escape" from their selves and …

Subjectivity In 'Attār's Shaykh Of San'Ān Story In The Conference Of The Birds, Claudia Yaghoobi

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Subjectivity in 'Attār’s Shaykh of San'ān Story in The Conference of the Birds" Claudia Yaghoobi discusses intersections of transgression, law, inclusion and exclusion, self and Other in Farīd al-Dīn 'Attār's (1142?-ca.1220) treatment of religion with regard to Shaykh San'ān and the Christian girl's love story in The Conference of the Birds. San'ān is an ascetic master who has never transgressed any of the Islamic laws until he embarks on a journey from Mecca to Rome after a dream only to fall in love with a Christian girl, convert to Christianity, and begin drinking wine and …

History And Identity In Post-Totalitarian Memoir Writing In Romanian, Nicoleta D. Ifrim

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "History and Identity in Post-Totalitarian Memoir Writing in Romanian" Nicoleta D. Ifrim analyzes Virgil Tănase's confessional and ego-graphic writing in his 2011 Leapșa pe murite (Playing Fetch with Death). Tănase's text is about the individual caught in history and re-writes it post-traumatically from a double perspective: that of the collective memory of totalitarianism and the personal thus functioning as a filtering mechanism for the creation of meta-historical identity. For Tănase, the experience of exile and post-exile, as well as the confrontation with the West legitimizes identity dilemmas and the construction of the individual. The book is representative …

Electronic Journals, Prestige, And The Economics Of Academic Journal Publishing, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek, Joshua Jia

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their article "Electronic Journals, Prestige, and the Economics of Academic Journal Publishing" Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Joshua Jia discuss the current state of the academic journal publishing industry. The current state of the industry is an oligopoly based on a double appropriation model where academics produce work for at no cost only to have publishers earn significant profit margins by selling the work back to academics. Publishers are able to do this given the price inelasticity and weak bargaining power of its main consumer, university libraries. Publishers' ability to increase prices is also supported by what the authors …

Art And Politics In Latin America: A Book Review Article Of New Work By Van Delden And Grenier, Sánchez, And Cohn, Nicole L. Sparling

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

Researching The Avant-Garde: A Book Review Article Of New Work By Bohn And Sell, Blaž Zabel

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

Performing Modernity In Turkey: Conflicts Of Masculinity, Sexuality, And The Köçek Dancer, Brittany Giselle Haynes

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This thesis reexamines the history of the köçek dancer in Turkey and thereby opens modern heteronormative constructs of masculinity and sexuality to contestation, particularly as they have been symbolically embodied by the rural population of Anatolia. It traces the evolution of the köçek dancer from the early modern Ottoman Empire when the dancer embodied notions of divine love and the ideal of beauty as a young male object of adult men's desires. In the nineteenth century, perceptions of the köçek began to change, primarily among Ottoman elites, whose modernization efforts were influenced by the European gaze and travelers' Orientalist interpretations …

Sam Gill, Dancing Culture Religion, Anthony Shay

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

No abstract provided.