The Fictional World of Mo Yan
Shelley W. Chan
ISBN13: 9781604977196
Date: 29-Dec-10
Mo Yan, the most prolific writer in present-day China as well as one of its most prominent avant-gardists, is an author whose literary works have enjoyed an enormous readership and have caught much critical attention not only in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan but also in many other countries around the world. This book provides the most comprehensive exposition of Mo Yan’s fiction in any language.
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Essays and Poems on Audience in Performance
Monica Prendergast
ISBN13: 9781604975390
Date: 28-Sep-08
Drawing on key findings discovered in this extensive literature review, the author goes on to present a number of chapters that theorize how spectatorship may become a central concern of curriculum through committed and teacher-facilitated attendance of live performance.
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Print Culture, Human Labor, and New Modes of Critique in Charles Dickens's Hard Times, Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley, and George Eliot's Felix Holt
John C. Murray
ISBN13: 9781604976687
Date: 18-Jan-10
This book employs Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley (1849), Charles Dickens’s Hard Times (1854), and George Eliot’s Felix Holt (1866) to evidence how the growth of capitalist production and the development of new technologies of industry within the early- to mid-Victorian periods inspired the prioritization of the printed word over oratory and speech as a means for fulfilling the linguistic power exchanges found common in spoken discourse. This book serves to fill this gap in Victorian studies.
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The Value of Collaborative Play
Mark Fearnow
ISBN13: 9781934043431
Date: 28-Feb-07
Surprisingly little has been published on the questions of what theatre actually is and what participants in theatre derive from the experience. This book investigates theatre as a means of social connection.
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