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We are mock'd with art: theatricalizing devices in performances of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente, Florianópolis, 2011This dissertation discusses the use of theatricalizing devices in four stage productions of William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. The selected performances were staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company (England, 1992), Théâtre de la Complicité (England, 1992), Folger Theatre (United States, 2009), and Companhia Atores de Laura (Brazil, 2004-2005). The discussion is structured following the notion of "performance text", proposed by Marco de Marinis (1993), which testifies to the importance of analyzing a performance in terms of its stage elements and also its contextual circumstances. Hence, the notion of "theatricalizing devices" is proposed in the present study as a tool to look at those devices employed on stage that can, simultaneously, comment on the theatrical medium and its conventions and help a production address themes and concerns related to the world outside the theater building. Additionally, the referred devices have to do with further fictionalizing the already fictional stage reality, without losing sight of the fact that those making and attending any given performance are inserted in an outside context.A presente tese discute o uso de recursos teatricalizantes em quatro produções teatrais de O Conto do Inverno, de William Shakespeare. As performances selecionadas foram produzidas pela Royal Shakespeare Company (Inglaterra, 1992), Théâtre de la Complicité (Inglaterra, 1992), Folger Theatre (Estados Unidos, 2009), e Companhia Atores de Laura (Brasil, 2004-2005). A discussão está estruturada seguindo a noção de "texto espetacular" proposta por Marco de Marinis (1993), a qual testemunha a favor da importância de se analisar uma performance em termos de seus elementos de palco e também de suas circunstâncias contextuais. Dessa forma, a noção de "recursos teatricalizantes" é proposta na presente tese como ferramenta para olhar aqueles recursos empregados no palco que podem, simultaneamente, comentar o meio teatral e suas convenções e ajudar uma produção a tratar temas e preocupações relacionados ao mundo existente para além do auditório do teatro. Além disso, os referidos recursos associam-se com ficcionalizar mais profundamente a realidade já fictícia do palco teatral, sem perder de vista o fato que os indivíduos que realizam e assistem a qualquer performance estão inseridos em um contexto exterior
'A Tale of Two Slippers' : Uncanny parody, power and the performance of writing
No full textIn this combined critical and creative work, my experimental short story ‘A Tale of Two Slippers’ (in which a character escapes a text to kill her author) is framed through an introduction in which cultural studies theory and reflections on practice-led research provide insights into how parody and the performance of writing can work uncannily and generatively to resist the power relations embedded in conventions of genre and the author/text binary. The key focus is on parody, and its uncannily doubled discourse (Barfield and Tew, 2002), which combines with the added critical edge of metafiction and ontological/textual slippage, to explore the creative potential of Australian cultural engagement with hegemonic conventions of judgement and genre, and to consider the subversive edge that writing from the margins might bring to this endeavour
The tale of the robin-red-breast, a poem. By the author of the Black bird's tale [electronic resource].
No full textThe author of the Black bird's tale = Edmund Stacy.Verse.Price from imprint: Price Two Pence.Foxon,Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
The Silk Road - Cultivating a Hybrid Garden
No full textThis conference paper explores the creative process behind the development of The Stolen Button picture book focusing on the themes of migration, displacement, and the representation of multicultural stories in an Australian landscape. The Silk Road is a historical location, a cultural melting point where East meets West. This transport corridor facilitated the exchange of goods but more importantly, it transmitted ideas and stories. Classic tales such as Journey to the West and Aladdin have their roots along the Silk Road. However, the authors do not use the Silk Road as a realistic backdrop. It is an imaginative space to portray an exotic other, a wilderness, a place to face demons, spirits and foes. Likewise, the Silk Road of our imagination is a fantastical place – a hybrid garden of Chinese stories from childhood memories of the author of the book mixed with illustrative elements from the illustrator’s Persian painting background.No Full Tex
Zaar Tale 2
No full textTale-telling. Session organised in the author's house.Story-telling session with drinks
Author's fairy tale in contemporary Czech literature for children
No full textAnnotation The theme of this diploma thesis is Czech author fairy-tale from 1989 onwards. The first three chapters deal with general information on author fairy-tale, its reader and its history. In the fourth chapter we reflect on original Czech children's books published after 1989 and attempt to describe the current state and developing trends. We selected several representative fairy-tale books and divided them into three principle types of the contemporary Czech author fairy- tale. The imitative-innovative type is closest to the folklore tradition, the nonsense-parodical type is based on parody or negation of the folk fairy-tale, and the imaginative type is based on symbol, metaphor and allegory. We identified another type of modern fairy-tale and called it the fairy-tale mixed into a real story. It comes out of the nonsense-parodical type and sits on the edge between fairy-tale and real prose. The aim of this diploma thesis is to describe the main trends in contemporary Czech author fairy-tale and to apply them to the selected children's books
Zaar Tale 2
No full textTale-telling. Session organised in the author's house.Story-telling session with drinks.Recording conditions: Edirol 09 Digital recorder ; Sennheiser ME66 microphon
Historicizing authorship - the run-away author in Jonathan Swift’s A tale of the tub : The attribution debate reconsidered
No full textThe analysis of the author-function in Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub in this paper is part of a project that traces the changing notions of authorship through the eighteenth century, primarily in relation to satire, parody, and meta-fiction, which are often interpreted with reference to authorial intention. As I argue here, if we are to historicize authorships in a way that elucidates the literary works, a discussion of intentionality is indeed necessary. A versatile approach to authorial intention serves this purpose, seeking “the best position for receiving the utterance of a … particular, historically embedded author” (Levinson), a position which, in the case of satiric and parodic works, includes the rhetorical situation. Criticism of Jonathan Swift’s Tale of a Tub is often informed by the attribution debate around the first, 1704 edition; the fifth, 1710 edition, inscribes these speculations about authorship through the added Apology and footnotes, presumably unmasking the author’s true intent (though not his identity), and providing a key to ironic allusions. However, as I argue here, rather than arresting the carnivalesque game (through the Hack persona) of the Tale proper, these additions feature a new version of the “run-away author," highlighting the “densely allusive intertextual nature” of the text (Griffith). As part and parcel of the dedications and the preface of the first edition, the new texts of the 1710 edition exhibit the kind of self-reflexive irony that characterizes metafictive novels of a later date, reflecting on the authorial activity, on other writers, and on the audience.</p
A Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale
No full textA Grammar of the Eastern European Hasidic Hebrew Tale provides the first detailed linguistic analysis of the Hebrew narrative literature composed in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Eastern Europe by followers of the Hasidic spiritual movement. It presents a thorough description of Hasidic Hebrew orthography, morphology, syntax, and lexis illustrated with extensive examples. Attention is devoted to the relationship between Hasidic Hebrew and its biblical, rabbinic, and medieval antecedents; to its links with Aramaic, contemporaneous Maskilic Hebrew, and its authors’ native Yiddish; and to its contributions to Modern (Israeli) Hebrew. The grammar fills a major scholarly gap on the diachronic development of Hebrew and as such will be a key resource for anyone interested in the language’s history
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