521 research outputs found
Speak No Evil?
No full textResponds to comments by T. P. O\u27Brien and P. Cox (1997), and M. L. Perla (1997) regarding the author\u27s (G. W. Albee, see record 84-09296) article on prevention science. Albee discusses the problems in Perla\u27s call for more public visibility for prevention programs using social marketing principles, and disagrees with O\u27Brien and Cox\u27s argument for the separation of science and politics
Albee, Ira J.
No full textBody cremated. Emily M. Albee - wifehttps://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-ch-memoranda-1939/1257/thumbnail.jp
Repetition in Beckett, Pinter, and Albee
No full textVitaMajor subject: EnglishWhen critics talk about the use of language in Theater of the Absurd plays, they often mention that part of its effect comes from its similarity to everyday talk. One of the key features in both everyday conversation and the dramatic conversation in the Theater of the Absurd is repetition. In the plays of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Edward Albee, repetition is a central stylistic feature of the dialogue. It operates on two levels in their texts: the micro level, between the characters, and the macro level, between the performance or text and the audience/reader. On both levels repetition creates both harmony and disharmony. On the micro level, repetition functions to create meaning and promote interaction between the characters, but it also signals discord between characters as well, because they use repetition to evade giving pertinent responses, to verbally dominate other characters, and to show contrived involvement. On the macro level, repetition creates harmony by involving us emotionally in the musical patterns of the dialogue, by bonding with the repetition of our everyday speech to produce dialogue that feels comfortable, and by making us laugh. Yet, repetition on the macro level also creates disharmony through too much repetition, or noise, and repetition that illustrates communication systems in a state of collapse. Repetition in the dialogue mimics the repetitive nature of ordinary talk and makes dialogue that should feel comfortable seem threatening, and it unsettles the spectator/reader because it captures our ambivalence about the communication process. What the spectator/reader remembers from this dialogue is not the rapport building nature of repetition but repetition that creates more distance between interlocutors in conversation, that feigns conversational involvement but actually brings anxiety
Kazuo Ishiguro speaks in Dominican author series
No full textKazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day, spoke at Dominican on April 1, as part of Dominican’s Spring Author Series, presented in partnership with Book Passage
Dominican welcomes bestselling author Erik Larson
No full textNew York Times bestselling author and former features writer for the Wall Street Journal and Time Magazine, Erik Larson spoke at Dominican University of California on April 14, at the Institute for Leadership Studies’ (ILS) Spring Author Series, presented in partnership with Book Passage
\'Three tall women\' by Eduard Albee: autobiography or criticism concerning the American society?
No full textNo prefácio da peça Three Tall Women, o dramaturgo norte-americano Edward Albee declara ter-se baseado em sua mãe adotiva para a composição de sua personagem. Por esse motivo, a crítica teatral norte-americana passou a considerar a peça simplesmente como uma autobiografia de seu autor. É fato que Edward Albee se utilizou de elementos de sua própria vida na obra, mas a peça não se restringe a isso: a autobiografia serviu de ferramenta para a realização de uma crítica contundente aos valores cultivados pela classe média alta norte-americana. Grande parte da crítica norte-americana, ao se referir à peça Three Tall Women, ressalta seu aspecto autobiográfico, mas não toca, de forma alguma, no aspecto de crítica à ideologia norte-americana presente na obra. Dessa forma, a presente dissertação propõe-se a identificar e analisar os elementos de crítica à sociedade norte-americana encontrados na peça Three Tall Women, por meio da análise dos diálogos de seus personagens. Finalmente, este trabalho também analisará a convergência entre a forma e o conteúdo nessa obra, ou seja, a forma mais adequada, escolhida pelo autor, para a exposição de determinado conteúdo.In the play Three Tall Women, the American playwright Edward Albee states that one of his characters is based on his adoptive mother. For this reason, American critics consider the play essentially an autobiography of its author. It is true that Edward Albee has used some elements of his life in his play, but Three Tall Women is not limited to that: Edward Albee\'s autobiography is like a tool for the crushing criticism concerning some values supported by the American high-middle class. A great part of the American critics emphasizes the autobiography element concerning the play Three Tall Women, but definitely they do not mention the aspect of criticism about the American ideology in the play. In this way, this paper aims to identify and to analyze the elements of criticism concerning the American society found in the play Three Tall Women through the characters dialogues. Finally, this paper also aims to analyze the convergence between form and theme; the most adequate form, chosen by the author, for the presentation of such theme
Anàlisi i comparació de Malcom de James Purdy i l'adaptació teatral d'Edward Albee
No full textTreball de fi de grau en Traducció i Interpretació. Tutor: Damià AlouJames Purdy was an American author of novels, short stories and plays, who started his literary career in the second half of the 20th century. His work has been widely ignored, mostly due to his dark themes, disturbing characters and surrealist writing, which did not tie in with the “American dream” mentality of Post-war America. Edward Albee, absurdist playwright, brought Purdy’s first novel, Malcolm, to life on the stage in 1966 and it proved to be a theatrical failure with the critics. This dissertation analyses the novel in depth, through its structure, characters and themes, and later studies how Albee portrays these in his written version of the play, and how this affects the whole concept of the adaptation. This is accomplished through extensive research into the author’s style and literary work and a through a thorough comparison of both versions of Malcolm. The results of this showed that Albee creates a slightly more sentimental and reflective main character, despite his understanding of Purdy’s passive and indifferent antihero, while he also introduces new information which resolves some of the mystery and confusion Malcolm faces and, therefore, takes away part of the surrealist effect Purdy’s novel has on the reader
Jack and Suzy Welch speak in spring author series
No full textRetired General Electric Company CEO Jack Welch and his wife and co-author, Suzy, spoke at Dominican University of California on May 14 at the Institute for Leadership Studies’ Spring Author Series, presented in partnership with Book Passage
O zoológico existencialista de Edward Albee
No full textA obra de arte dramática, diferentemente de outras formas artístico-literárias, é a que de forma mais prática e imediata estabelece uma relação entre seu realizador e o público ao qual ela é destinada. Contudo, o drama moderno, produzido a partir do final do século XIX, passou por uma série de crises e adaptações quanto à forma e ao conteúdo, decorrentes de várias mudanças ocorridas nos mais diversos setores da sociedade. Edward Albee é um dos maiores dramaturgos norte-americanos da segunda metade do séc. XX. Seguindo uma tradição que produziria grandes talentos como Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams e Arthur Miller, o novo autor surge em 1958 com seu texto, The Zoo Story, associado ao Teatro do Absurdo. A peça de forma minimalista põe em cena dois bancos de praça e duas personagens: Peter que é a própria personificação do self made man, já que está enjaulado aos ideais e aos valores burgueses de vida, e Jerry o outsider ou o transeunte permanente que não se insere nos padrões, no código moral e de valores socialmente estabelecidos. Entretanto, ou por isso mesmo, possui uma capacidade reflexiva extremamente aguçada. O objetivo é tratar de um aspecto da peça - a questão da absurvidade e da liberdade, como formas de transcender a angústia existencial e a vida sem significado em um contexto destituído de símbolos metafísicos. Analisar-se-ão os elementos relacionados a estes tópicos bem como o modo que servem de instrumento para o esvaziamento da ideologia burguesa, que culmina na crítica ácida que Edward Albee desfere ao American way of life.Dramatic art, differently from other literacy-artistic forms, is the one that most practically and immediately establishes a relationship between its producer and the audience it is created for. However, modern drama, produced since the end of nineteenth century, has gone through many crises and adaptations in its form and content, originated from many changes occured in the various instances of society. Edward Albee is one of the major American playwrights of the second half of the twentieth century. Following a tradition which produced gifted authors such as Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, the new author appears with his play The Zoo Story in 1958, associated to the Theater of the Absurd. The play, in a minimalist way, stages two park benches and two characters: Peter, the personification of the self made man, encaged in the bourgeois ideals and values of life; and Jerry, the outsider or the permanent transient who does not fill in the patterns, in the moral code or the established social values. However, or because of this, he has a sharpened reflexive ability. The aim of our search is to treat one aspect of the play - absurdity and freedom - a means of transceding existential anguish and life without meaning in a context deprived of metaphysical symbols. We intend to analyze elements related to these topics, as well as the way they function as instruments for the emptying bourgeois ideology which, ends up the sour criticism Albee aims at the American way of life
Spring author series welcomes One Book One Marin selection
No full textPrize-winning author Daniel Alarcón, named in 2010 by The New Yorker as one of the best 20 writers in America under the age of 40, spoke at Dominican University of California on May19, at the Institute for Leadership Studies’ Spring Author Series, presented in partnership with Book Passage
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