The Carnival Diversion
The Carnival Diversion

Author: Thomas Humann

Publisher:

Published: 2009-12

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781449054274

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THE EVENT: MARDI GRAS THE THREAT: WELL-FUNDED IRANIAN TERRORISTS THE TARGET: AIR FORCE ONE America's first Hispanic president is determined to unite the nation and its allies by the bonds of Christianity. The Shiite rival to al-Qaeda and its vindictive leader are hell-bent on disrupting the president's plans. Marine Corps Captain J.D. Simon is part of a top-secret intelligence team feverishly unraveling the scheme. The impetuous young officer must rely on his Bostonian street smarts and aviation expertise if he is to survive long enough to accomplish his mission. He successfully unearths a plot to assassinate the first lady during her visit to Rio de Janeiro. But the terrorists are a step ahead - the president is to be murdered in New Orleans the next day as the culmination of THE CARNIVAL DIVERSION. Hold on for the ride as Simon and his teammates race around the globe and against the clock to prevent the loss of America's presidential icon: Air Force One.

Deconstructing Gender in Carnival
Deconstructing Gender in Carnival

Author: Valeria Sterzi

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2015-07-31

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 3839413486

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This book explores the complexity of the dialectic relationship between ritual-like activities and social structure; focusing on women's increasing presence in Trinidad Carnival and the ways in which their participation becomes part of the conflict over the efforts to change the basic distribution of power within society. Femininity comes forward in Caribbean carnival as the sexualized body that unmasks power relations which are simultaneously affirmed and denied. Giving attention to the ideological process through which gender relations are constructed, this event is analysed in relation to economic, political, and social factors, as well as a consequence of the changes caused by the cultural clash of colonial and postcolonial society.

Detective Agency
Detective Agency

Author: Priscilla L. Walton

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1999-05-31

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 0520215087

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A fun book about genre fiction and the ways women have appropriated the hard-boiled tradition of Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Mike Hammer and the writings of Hammet, Chandler, Spillane, and others. A story of texts, movies, TV shows, and publishing, it goes quite beyond textual analysis. A bit like Jan Radway's and Tania Modleski's analysis of culture in the making (and we'll probably have blurbs from both on the cover of our book).

The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture, 1690–1760
The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture, 1690–1760

Author: Darryl P. Domingo

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-03-29

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1316558916

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Why did eighteenth-century writers employ digression as a literary form of diversion, and how did their readers come to enjoy linguistic and textual devices that self-consciously disrupt the reading experience? Darryl P. Domingo answers these questions through an examination of the formative period in the commercialization of leisure in England, and the coincidental coming of age of literary self-consciousness in works published between approximately 1690 and 1760. During this period, commercial entertainers tested out new ways of gratifying a public increasingly eager for amusement, while professional writers explored the rhetorical possibilities of intrusion, obstruction, and interruption through their characteristic use of devices like digression. Such devices adopt similar forms and fulfil similar functions in literature as do diversions in culture: they 'unbend the mind' and reveal the complex reciprocity between commercialized leisure and commercial literature in the age of Swift, Pope, and Fielding.

The Art of Commedia
The Art of Commedia

Author: M. A. Katritzky

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 9042017988

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Italian comedians attracted audiences to performances at every level, from the magnificent Italian, German and French court festival appearances of Orlando di Lasso or Isabella Andreini, to the humble street trestle lazzi of anonymous quacks. The characters they inspired continue to exercise a profound cultural influence, and an understanding of the commedia dell'arte and its visual record is fundamental for scholars of post-1550 European drama, literature, art and music. The 340 plates presented here are considered in the light of the rise and spread of commedia stock types, and especially Harlequin, Zanni and the actresses. Intensively researched in public and private collections in Oxford, Munich, Florence, Venice, Paris and elsewhere, they complement the familiar images of Jacques Callot and the Stockholm Recueil Fossard within a framework of hundreds of significant pictures still virtually unknown in this context. These range from anonymous popular prints to pictures by artists such as Ambrogio Brambilla, Sebastian Vrancx, Jan Bruegel, Louis de Caulery, Marten de Vos, and members of the Valckenborch and Francken clans. This volume, essential for commedia dell'arte specialists, represents an invaluable reference resource for scholars, students, theatre practitioners and artists concerned with commedia-related aspects of visual, dramatic and festival culture, in and beyond Italy.

Bacchanal!
Bacchanal!

Author: Peter Mason

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781566396639

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For two days each year Trinidad's capital, Port of Spain, hosts 'the greatest show on earth' - a raucous mix of music, costume and revelry known as Carnival. The festival has become more or less synonymous with the Caribbean island and is an intrinsic part of its identity and popular culture. Making extensive use of interviews with artists and other participants, BACCHANAL! explores the place of Carnival in Trinidadian society and the people who take part in it: -- How the festival reflects and affects attitudes towards religion, language, humour, politics, male-female relations and folk traditions. -- The historical role of Carnival, its roots in colonial society and slavery, and its traditional function as an expression of subversion and revolt. -- The effect of contemporary social and cultural influences on the dynamic, evolving phenomenon of Carnival. -- The increasing involvement of Indo-Trinidadians and women, the competing musical forms of reggae and soca, and the impact of tourism and commercialism.