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Nightfall Hotel: A Surrealist Romeo and Juliet
No full textRapti lends her skills as a translator, editor, and critical analyzer in Nightfall Hotel: A Surrealist Romeo and Juliet by Nanos Valaoritis. This book tells the story of how a couple, locked together in a hotel room, spends their time with games and dreams. It contains the original play in French, an English translation, and a critical analysis. Valaoritis wrote Nightfall Hotel (L’hôtel de la nuit qui tombe) to expand on André Breton’s liberating surrealist use of language, after he was introduced to it by his friends Odysseas Elytis and Nikos Gatsos. The first staging of Night fall Hotel in Paris in 1959, confronts us with “mad love” (amour fou) and showcases the influence Surrealism to the Theatre of the Absurd
Boston Dance Maker\u27s Residency through the Boston Center for the Arts and Boston Dance Alliance collaboration
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Personal pronoun usage in maternal input to infants at high- vs. low-risk for autism spectrum disorder
No full textXiaoxue He, A., Luyster, R., Hong, S., & Arunachalam, S. (2018). Personal pronoun usage in maternal input to infants at high- vs. low-risk for autism spectrum disorder. First Language, 38(5), 520-527. 201
Differential attention to faces in infant siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder and associations with later social and language ability
No full textWagner, J.B., Luyster, R., Moustapha, H., et al. (2018). Differential attention to faces in infant siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder and associations with later social and language ability. International Journal of Behavioral Development 201
Learning language through overhearing in children with ASD
No full textLuyster, R., Arunachalam, S. (2018). Learning language through overhearing in children with ASD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. ePub.201
Reader in Comedy: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism
No full textRomanska and Ackerman serves as editors in this unique anthology of historical essays on comedy. This book is arranged chronologically and provides a selection of over seventy of the most important historical essays on comedy that range from antiquity to the present. Focus is drawn upon the development of comic theory as it highlights the relationship between comedy, politics, economics, philosophy, religion, arts, and other genres. This serves as an accessible guide to students of literature and theatre. This book showcases authors such as in Plato, Aristotle, Dante Alighieri, Molière, Mark Twain, Constance Rourke, and Michael North. This book brings together diverse theories of comedy throughout the ages and highlights how comedy is able to speak to the most pragmatic aspects of human life