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2 - The Ancient Greek Theatre : Tradition, Image and Reality
No full textHandley Eric W. 2 - The Ancient Greek Theatre : Tradition, Image and Reality. In: Bulletin de la Classe des lettres et des sciences morales et politiques, tome 11, n°7-12, 2000. pp. 269-301
Vitalistic information systems in the South African public health system : a transactional analysis perspective
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Some Thoughts on New Comedy and its Public
No full textIf we say that the writers of New Comedy (Menander and his older contemporaries Philemon and Diphilos) represent the end of a dramatic tradition, they are also poets of the Hellenistic Age, standing at the beginning of another tradition, one that is widely documented over about a millennium. That tradition is seen in the remains of copies of plays excavated in Egypt as well as of theatre-buildings in all parts of the Greco- Roman world ; a diverse interest in the theatre is attested by representations of dramatic scenes, actors and masks ; we can add Latin versions of Greek plays, play-readings, excerpts in anthologies, passages given to school-children to learn or copy ; New Comedy is recalled in other writings of all kinds, from epigram to satire, from oratory to popular philosophy. The growing population of papyri gives scope for thought about the typology of books, their ownership and use. All the testimonia prove the sustained interest in Menander, but also in Philemon and Diphilos.Si l'on peut dire que les auteurs de la Comédie Nouvelle (Ménandre et ses contemporains, plus âgés, Philemon et Diphilos), représentent la fin d'une tradition dramatique, on doit reconnaître qu'ils sont aussi des poètes de l'époque hellénistique et qu'ils se situent ainsi à l'origine d'une autre tradition, largement documentée sur près d'un millénaire. On peut trouver des témoignages de cette tradition dans les copies de pièces découvertes dans les fouilles effectuées en Egypte, tout comme dans les restes des édifices théâtraux bâtis dans tout le monde gréco-romain. Les représentations de scènes dramatiques, d'acteurs et de masques sont la preuve d'un intérêt diversifié pour le théâtre. On y ajoutera les versions latines de pièces grecques, les lectures de pièces, les extraits des anthologies, les passages que les enfants devaient apprendre ou copier à l'école. La Nouvelle Comédie est présente par ailleurs dans d'autres écrits de toutes sortes, de l'épigramme à la satire, de la rhétorique à la philosophie populaire. Quant au nombre croissant des papyrus, il donne matière à réfléchir sur la typologie des livres, leur propriété et leur utilisation. Tous les documents attestent de l'intérêt constant pour Ménandre, mais aussi pour Philemon et Diphilos.Handley Eric Walter. Some Thoughts on New Comedy and its Public. In: Pallas, 47/1997. De la scène aux gradins, sous la direction de Brigitte Le Guen . pp. 185-200
From Pedrolino to a Pierrot: The Origin, Ancestry and Ambivalence of the British Pierrot Troupe
No full textIn this article, the author considers the British development of the seaside Pierrot troupe, arguing that its construction is consistent with the notion of invented tradition, and the associated concerns with identity and nationality. Tracing the history of the character from its origins as Pedrolino in the commedia dell’arte, the article considers the traditional and novel elements of the British form. This also allows a brief account of the origin and aesthetics of the British tradition. Reflecting on the synthesis of the archaic and contemporary dimensions of the form, the author proposes that the new structure constructed an ambivalent class of character. The composition of both troupes and audiences was drawn from across the range of social strata. Through its collectivity and its treatment of contemporary social themes, it is argued the British Pierrot troupe approached and negotiated questions of a cultural and national identity in the late-Victorian period.
Dave Calvert is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield, UK. His research
interests include street theatre, Applied Theatre and learning disabled
performance. He is also a member of The Pierrotters, the last remaining seaside
Pierrot troupe
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Slavery's Ghost: The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation
No full textSlavery's Ghost The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation Richard Follett, Eric Foner, and Walter Johnson The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series Jarod Roll, Series Editor President Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in 1863, rescuing them, as history tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence and making the promise of freedom and equal rights. This is a moment to celebrate and honor, to be sure, but what of the darker, more troubling side of this story? Slavery's Ghost explores the dire, debilitating, sometimes crushing effects of slavery on race relations in American history. In three conceptually wide-ranging and provocative essays, the authors assess the meaning of freedom for enslaved and free Americans in the decades before and after the Civil War. They ask important and challenging questions: How did slaves and freedpeople respond to the promise and reality of emancipation? How committed were white southerners to the principle of racial subjugation? And in what ways can we best interpret the actions of enslaved and free Americans during slavery and Reconstruction? Collectively, these essays offer fresh approaches to questions of local political power, the determinants of individual choices, and the discourse that shaped and defined the history of black freedom. Written by three prominent historians of the period, Slavery's Ghost forces readers to think critically about the way we study the past, the depth of racial prejudice, and how African Americans won and lost their freedom in nineteenth-century America. Richard Follett is Reader in American history at the University of Sussex, England, and author of The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 18201860. Eric Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and author of many books, including 2011 Pulitzer-Prize winner The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. Walter Johnson is the Winthrop Professor of History and professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and author of Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
Adam Nicolson's 2023 Book How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks, and Walter J. Ong's Thought
No full textSee the above abstract.In my deeply retrospective 4,215-word review essay "Adam Nicolson's 2023 Book How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I selectively highlight the prolific English author Adam Nicolson's 2023 book How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). I situate his work in the larger conceptual framework of the work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) -- and the extensive related work of numerous other scholars, including the philosopher Eric Voegelin and the classicist Eric A. Havelock.N/AFarrell, Thomas. (2023). Adam Nicolson's 2023 Book How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks, and Walter J. Ong's Thought. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/257886
How many focus markers are there in Konkomba?
No full textThis article discusses the divergent status of the two particles lé and lá in the grammar of Konkomba, a Gur language (Niger-Congo) of the Gurma subgroup. While previous studies claim that both particles are focus markers, this author argues that only the particle lá should be analyzed as a pure pragmatic device. Distributional studies suggest that the use of particle lé, on the other hand, is only required under specific focus conditions, and primarily represents a syntactic device
REJOINDER TO BOETTKE ON COASEAN ECONOMICS AND COMMUNISM
No full textIn the view of Boettke (1998), Coase (1960) casts lights of understanding in a myriad of fields, including, preeminently, property rights theory and the Soviet system of economics. The claim of the present author, in sharp contrast, is that this seminal article of Coase’s is a snare and a delusion. It has led economists down a mistaken path for lo this past half century, and Boettke (1998) is but one more unfortunate example of this.Ronald Coase; Communism; Central Planning; Property Rights
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