Aesthetics and Creation
Gao Xingjian
ISBN13: 9781604978360
Date: 28-Nov-12
Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian is amongst the most challenging writers of the present era. He has probed the dynamics of Chinese and European literature and developed unique strategies for the writing of seventeen plays, two novels, a collection of short stories and a collection of poems. He has also written two collections of criticism. The present collection takes the title "Aesthetics and Creation" from the name of the Chinese collection from which most of these essays are drawn, but it also includes some of Gao’s most recent unpublished essays.
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Nationalities, Identities, and the Performing Body of Work
Thomas F. Connolly
ISBN13: 9781604976823
Date: 18-Mar-10
Despite the significance of performers and the material culture of performance to national culture, there has been far too much pigeon-holing of the topics that inform the cultural study of nation, identity, and performance. Spanning across playwrights, performers, critics, and theatrical commemorations, this book raises controversy about familiar figures and brings attention to neglected ones. It is an important book for all in theatre, cultural studies, and literature collections.
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Sanna Inthorn
ISBN13: 9781934043950
Date: 28-Dec-07
This book makes an important contribution to the study of German national identity by offering a detailed and large-scale academic analysis of how German media discourse between 1998 and 2005 represents German national identity.
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A Longitudinal Study on the Acquisition of the English Article System
Yong Lang
ISBN13: 9781604976700
Date: 28-Jan-10
This book which details an in-depth longitudinal study of Chinese ESL learners' acquisition process of English articles helps fill the gap in needed research of the challenges faced by ESL learners.While the findings from this study challenge several claims documented in current L2 research literature on one hand, it also casts some much-needed light on the acquisition processes of English articles by Chinese ESL learners.
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