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Allegorien des politischen : zeitgeschichtliche Implikationen des tschechisch…
The monograph explores, by means of a diachronic overview, the ways in which historical dramas in Czech literature changed between the outset of the Czech national rebirth and the Republic of Czechoslovakia between the wars. The investigation is based on the fundamental notion that allegorical structures in historical dramas refer to the time at which a given work is created. A general overview…
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- edision 13
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- 9783412225100
- Collation
- 482 p. ;ill.
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- -
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- 891.86205140904. ALL p
German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900–1940
This book provides the first in-depth empirical study of the European Parliament's powers of scrutiny of the executive in the European Union (EU) political system, focusing on the politically salient field of the Economic and Monetary Union. The expansion of executive decision-making during the euro crisis was accompanied by an empowerment of the European Parliament through legislative oversigh…
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- first edition
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- 9781108614306
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- x, 396p,:ill,
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- -
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- 782.120943097471 DER g
The theatre of Shelley
This is the first full-length study of Shelley’s plays in performance. It offers a rich, meticulously researched history of Shelley’s role as a playwright and dramatist and a reassessment of his "closet dramas" as performable pieces of theatre. With chapters on each of Shelley’s dramatic works, the book provides a thorough discussion of the poet’s stagecraft, and analyses performanc…
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- -
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- 9781906924324
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- xiv, 289 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- -
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- 822.709 MUL t
Social work, sociometry, and psychodrama : experiential approaches for group …
This open access book outlines the intersections between social work and the methods of sociometry and psychodrama. Different sections offer essential practice wisdom for both trauma-focused and trauma-informed experiential work for individuals, groups, organizations, and communities. This text enriches the understanding of various action-based approaches and highlights how to enliven social wo…
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- -
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- 9789813363427
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- xxxiii, 435p. : ill.
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- -
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- 616.891523 GIA s
Pragmatic approaches to drama : studies in communication on the ancient stage
This volume collects papers on pragmatic perspectives on ancient theatre. Scholars working on literature, linguistics, theatre will find interesting insights on verbal and non-verbal uses of language in ancient Greek and Roman Drama. Comedies and tragedies spanning from the 5th century B.C.E. to the 1st century C.E. are investigated in terms of im/politeness, theory of mind, interpersonal pragm…
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- -
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- 9789004440265
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- XIII, 496 p.
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- The Language of Classical Literature, 32
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- 882.009 PRA p
Yuarn music dramas : studies in prosody and structure and a complete catalogu…
Part One of Yuarn Music Dramas presents a detailed analysis of form and structure in Yuarn music drama, with sections on the act, the suite, the aria, the verse, metrics of repeated graph patterns, parallelism, and the matching of suite and mode. [vii] Part Two presents the first catalogue of arias of its kind to be published in a language other than Chinese. It is a compilation of all of the a…
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- -
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- 9780472901470
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- XVI, 376 p
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- Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies, 40
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- 895.12409 JOH y
Divination on stage : prophetic body signs in early modern theatre in Spain a…
Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Bar…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783110695755
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- VIII, 252 p.
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- -
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- 862.309377 GER d
What is a family?: answers from early modern Japah
What is a family? The essays gathered here explore disparate family histories in early modern Japan, attending variously to the samurai elite, agrarian villagers, urban merchants, communities of out castes, and the circles surrounding priests, artists, and scholars. They draw on diverse sources—from population registers and legal documents to personal letters and diaries, from genealogies and…
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- -
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- 9780520974135
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- x, 291 hlm.
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- -
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- 306.850952 WHA w
Love and Intrigue : a tragedy
"Schiller’s play Kabale und Liebe, usually translated into English as Love and Intrigue, represents the disastrous consequences that follow when social constraint, youthful passion, and ruthless scheming collide in a narrow setting. Written between 1782 and 1784, the play bears the marks of life at the court of the despotic Duke of Württemberg, from which Schiller had just fled, and of a fra…
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- -
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- 9781783747429
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- 130 p.; 23 cm.
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- -
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- 802.07 SCH l
Scepticism and belief in English witchcraft drama, 1538-1681
This book situates witchcraft drama within its cultural and intellectual context, highlighting the centrality of scepticism and belief in witchcraft to the genre. It is argued that these categories are most fruitfully understood not as static and mutually exclusive positions within the debate around witchcraft, but as rhetorical tools used within it. In drama, too, scepticism and belief are vit…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789198376876
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- IX, 244 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 822.209 PUD s
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