Rarities & Wonders: Plays
Author: Phillip Howze
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Published: 2022-04
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ISBN-13: 9781734140231
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Rarities & Wonders
Author: Phillip Howze
Publisher:
Published: 2022-09-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781734140248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the imaginative works included in his book, Rarities & Wonders: Plays, Phillip Howze weaves together an array of disclosures, marvels, and meanderings to reveal the "intelligent, unruly" (New York Times) voice of a formidable new writer. Collected together here, and for the first-time, Rarities & Wonders is a singular assembly of "sharp and incisive" (Talkin' Broadway) contemporary American plays. Phillip Howze is an American writer and theater maker whose plays include Self Portraits (BRIC-Arts Media) and Frontieres Sans Frontieres (Bushwick Starr). He's currently commissioned to write new works for the American Repertory Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan, and Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3 where he's also a Resident Writer. He was recently appointed the inaugural Associate Senior Lecturer in Playwriting at Harvard University's Theater, Dance & Media program. This book is a part of the Sledgehammer Series with Three Plays by Christina Anderson, Doodles from the Margins: Three Plays by Hansol Jung, and Recent Alien Abductions by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas. The Sledgehammer Series lives within Tripwire's mission, with a specific focus on challenging how theater can live visually on the page.
Wonders and Rarities
Author: Travis Zadeh
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2023-01-10
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 0674258452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTravis Zadeh revives the work of the thirteenth-century Persian scholar Qazwīnī, whose Wonders and Rarities was for centuries one of the most influential natural histories in the world. Inviting us to embrace anew Qazwīnī’s rationalized study of nature and magic, Zadeh dramatically revises the place of wonder in the history of Islamic thought.
Wonder
Author: Sophia Vasalou
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2015-04-15
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1438455542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWonder has been celebrated as the quintessential passion of childhood. From the earliest stages of our intellectual history, it has been acclaimed as the driving force of inquiry and the prime passion of thought. Yet for an emotion acknowledged so widely for the multiple roles it plays in our lives, wonder has led a singularly shadowy existence in recent reflections. Philosophers have largely passed it over in silence; emotion theorists have shunned it as a case that sits awkwardly within their analytical frameworks. So what is wonder, and why does it matter? In this book, Sophia Vasalou sketches a "grammar" of wonder that pursues the complexities of wonder as an emotional experience that has carved colorful tracks through our language and our intellectual history, not only in philosophy and science but also in art and religious experience. A richer grammar of wonder and broader window into its past can give us the tools we need for thinking more insightfully about wonder, and for reflecting on the place it should occupy within our emotional lives.
Rarities of These Lands
Author: Claudia Swan
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-03-09
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0691207968
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The early years of the seventeenth century saw a great flourishing of Dutch culture. In the arts, this was the era of Vermeer and Rembrandt, as well as the development of a local art market. Commerce extended around the world, with state-sponsored trading companies importing foreign goods. Politically, the Netherlands became the first nation-state in Europe, in 1648. In this book, Claudia Swan considers all these aspects together, examining the material culture of the period-the designed, manufactured, and hand-crafted materials and wares-to show how the Dutch encounter with so-called "exotic" goods played a fundamental role in the country's political formation"--
Practices of Wonder
Author: Sophia Vasalou
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Published: 2013-01-31
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0227901673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWonder has often occupied a place of unique importance across a variety of human practices and intellectual activities. At different times and historical periods, it has been hailed as the beginning of philosophy and as the end that philosophy should aspire to pursue; as the motive force of scientific quests and their fruit; as the aim of art and the means art uses to accomplish its aims; and as the religious experience par excellence and the hallmark of a deeper spiritual life. Yet despite thespecial relationship it has borne to many of our most highly valued intellectual and spiritual practices, wonder remains a neglected and understudied notion. This volume aims to redress this neglect, bringing together a collection of essays drawn from different disciplines to consider the sense of wonder from a number of complementary perspectives. What is wonder? What role has it historically played in philosophy, science, art and aesthetics, and the religious or spiritual life? Can wonder be dangerous? Is wonder an experience in which we should, or indeed could, aspire to dwell? Why, among human experiences, should it be prized?
The Kingdom of Rarities
Author: Eric Dinerstein
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1610911962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores that idea, building a narrative around the concept of rarity and its implications both for our understanding of how the natural world works, and for what it can teach us about protecting biodiversity during a time of large-scale environmental change.
Wonder in Shakespeare
Author: A. Cohen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-01-30
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1137011629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first part of this book, Adam Max Cohen embraces the many meanings of wonder in order to challenge the generic divides between comedy, tragedy, history, and romance and suggests that Shakespeare's primary goal in crafting each of his playworlds was the evocation of one or more varieties of wonder.
Pasts at play
Author: Rachel Bryant Davies
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2021-01-12
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1526128918
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children’s Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children’s culture and the uses of the past. It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters during the long nineteenth-century (1750-1914), a critical period in children's culture. Boys and girls across social classes often experienced different pasts simultaneously, for purposes of amusement and instruction. The book highlights an active and shifting market in history for children, and reveals how children were actively involved in consuming and repackaging the past: from playing with historically themed toys and games to performing in plays and pageants. Each chapter reconstructs encounters across different media, uncovering the cultural work done by particular pasts and exposing the key role of playfulness in the British historical imagination.
Laughter, Pain, and Wonder
Author: David Richman
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780874133882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work's chief aim is to restore to readers, performers, and audiences the richness and vitality of Shakespeare's comedies. Richman explores the way in which a reader's relations to Shakespeare's literary texts differ from those of the relations between performers of Shakespeare's works and their audiences. Richman also examines the forms of humor and empathy that Shakespeare's comedies elicit.
