Errand Into the Theatrical Wilderness
Author: Lincoln E. Konkle
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13:
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Edward Albee
Author: Bruce Mann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-11-23
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1135579547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the "angry young man" who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in 1962, determined to expose the emptiness of American experience to Tiny Alice which reveals his indebtedness to Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco's Theatre of the Absurd, Edward Albee's varied work makes it difficult to label him precisely. Bruce Mann and his contributors approach Albee as an innovator in theatrical form, filling a critical gap in theatrical scholarship.
Thornton Wilder and the Puritan Narrative Tradition
Author: Lincoln Konkle
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0826264972
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Fresh examination of the works of Thornton Wilder emphasizing continuities in American literature from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. Sees Wilder as a literary descendant of Edward Taylor who drew from the Puritan worldview and tradition. Includes indepth readings of Shadow of a Doubt, The Trumpet Shall Sound, and others"--Provided by publisher.
When Church Became Theatre
Author: Jeanne Halgren Kilde
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780195179729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1880s, socio-economic and technological changes in the United States contributed to the rejection of Christian architectural traditions and the development of the radically new auditorium church. Jeanne Kilde links this shift in evangelical Protestant architecture to changes in worship style and religious mission.
Mabel Dodge Luhan
Author: Lois Palken Rudnick
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780826309952
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Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860
Author: Rosemarie K. Bank
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-01-28
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780521563871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of pre-Civil War American theatre.
Migrants from the Promised Land
Author: Zvi Sobel
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published:
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781412828611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn December 1983, Israeli radio and television blitzed the nation with programming on "yerida "--emigration from Israel. So much attention has been given to emigration that the casual observer might think it is the central threat to Israeli society. Demographics show that it is not, but emotions continue to run high on the subject. In "Migrants from the Promised Land, "Zvi Sobel explores the reasons for emigration from contemporary Israel within the context of a far-ranging critical assessment of Israeli society and the Zionist enterprise. He asks why, in light of near devastating challenges to the survival of Israel, does emigration assume such overwhelming importance among both elites and masses. His analysis is based on intensive interviews with hundreds of people preparing to leave Israel and a thorough examination of all relevant demographics.
Theology and the Kinesthetic Imagination
Author: Kathryn Reklis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-05-01
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 0199373078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeauty, bodily knowledge, and desire have emerged in late modern Christian theology as candidates to reorient and reinvigorate reflection. In this Reklis describes the theological meaning of the body's ecstasy as "kinesthetic imagination," a term which extends beyond the Great Awakening to trace the way bodily ecstasy continues to be coded as the expression of a primitive, hysterical, holistic, or natural self almost always in contrast to a modern, rational, fragmented, or artificial self. Edwards, she shows, is an excellent interlocutor for the exploration of kinesthetic imagination and theology, especially as it relates to contemporary questions about the role of beauty, body, and desire in theological knowledge. He wrote explicitly about the role of the body in theology, the centrality of affect in spiritual experience, and anchored all of this in a theological system grounded in beauty as his governing concept of divine reality. This book offers an innovative reading of one of the most widely known American theologians and offers this reading as provocation for debates within contemporary conversations.
Puritanism and Its Discontents
Author: Laura Lunger Knoppers
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780874138177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy tracing core discontents, the essays restore the anxiety-ridden radical nature of Puritanism, helping to account for its force in the seventeenth century and the popular and scholarly interest that it continues to evoke. Innovative and challenging in scope and argument, the volume should be of interest to scholars of early modern British and American history, literature, culture, and religion."--BOOK JACKET.
