Staging the Absolute
Title | Staging the Absolute PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Seifrid |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024-02-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781487551803 |
Staging the Absolute examines the use of public ritual to interrupt the flow of history, a distinct element in Russian culture during the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries.
Staging the Absolute
Title | Staging the Absolute PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Seifrid |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2023-10-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1487551827 |
Staging the Absolute argues that an array of practices and beliefs came together to define an essential aspect of Russian and Soviet culture in the twentieth century: the persistent desire to interrupt – or disrupt – history. Drawing on sources that define the nature of public rituals, the book reveals the pervasive presence of the impulse to impede history in Russia’s modern era and the realization of the idea in the form of the Stalinist show trials of the 1930s. Thomas Seifrid analyses Soviet festivals, public displays of agitational propaganda, and urban planning, together with such modernist precursors as fin-de-siècle and early twentieth-century projects for reviving the theatre, modernist adaptations of puppet theatre, the Faust legend and its vogue in early twentieth-century Russia, and the nineteenth-century panorama. The book reveals that what binds these otherwise disparate phenomena together is a shared impatience with history and a corresponding desire to appropriate urban space. Illuminating the deeper meanings in these revived archaic forms, Staging the Absolute shows how pervasive the interest in disrupting history was in the Russian modern era.
Staging the Spanish Golden Age
Title | Staging the Spanish Golden Age PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Jeffs |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 019881934X |
This book takes the reader through the translation and performance processes of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2004-05 Spanish Golden Age season to establish a model for translating, rehearsing, and performing Spanish Golden Age drama.
Leukemia
Title | Leukemia PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard Barry Ed |
Publisher | DIANE Publishing |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 1998-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0788171895 |
A research report which begins with a description of how normal blood cells develop & what they do. Continues with information about the incidence, possible causes, symptoms, diagnosis, & treatment of leukemia -- a cancer that arises in blood-forming cells. Includes information about: acute Leukemias, chronic Leukemias (Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, & Hairy cell leukemia), clinical trials & PDQ. Helps the general public & health care workers better understand the several types of leukemia & their treatment. Glossary. Selected readings. Resources. Additional information.
Neurosis
Title | Neurosis PDF eBook |
Author | Wolfgang Giegerich |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 387 |
Release | 2020-01-06 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1000062384 |
Psychoanalysis began over a century ago as a treatment for neurosis. Rooted in the positivistic mindset of the medicine from which it stemmed, it trained its empiricist gaze directly upon the symptoms of the malaise, only to be seduced into attributing it to causes as numerous as there are aspects of human experience. Edifying as this was for our understanding of the life of the psyche, it left the sickness of the soul that was its actual subject matter, the neurosis which it was supposed to be about, out of its purview. The crux of this problem was of a conceptual nature. As psychology increasingly gave up on its constituting concept, its concept of soul, it succumbed to the same extent to treating its patients without an adequate concept of what both it and neurosis were about. Attention was paid to mishaps and traumas, the vicissitudes of development, and the Oedipus complex. But neurosis, according to the thesis of this ground-breaking book, comes from the soul, even is soul; the soul in its untruth. Indeed, both it and the modern field of psychology are successors of the soul-forms that preceded them, religion and metaphysics, with the difference that psychology's reluctance to recognize and take responsibility for its status as such has been matched by the neurotic soul's clinging to obsolete metaphysical categories even as the often quite ordinary life disappointments of its patients are inflated with absolute importance. The folie à deux has been on a massive scale. Owing their provenance to the supplement they each provide the other, psychology and neurosis are entwined in a Gordian knot, the cutting of which requires insight into the logic that pervades both. Taking up this sword, Giegerich exposes and critiques the metaphysics that neurosis indulges in even as he returns psychology to the soul, not, of course, to the soul as some no longer credible metaphysical hypostasis, but as the logically negative life of the mind and power of thought. Using several fairy tales as models for the logic of neurosis, he brilliantly analyses its enchanting background processes, exposing thereby, in a most lively and thoroughgoing manner, the spiteful cunning by which the neurotic soul, against its already existing better judgement, betrays its own truth. Topics include the historicity of neurosis, its soulful purpose as a general cultural phenomenon, its internal logic, functioning, and enabling conditions, as well as the Sacred Festival drama character of symptomatic suffering, the theology of neurosis, and ‘the neurotic’ as the figure of modernity's exemplary man. A collection of vignettes descriptive of various kinds of neurotic presentation routinely met with in the consulting room is also included in an appendix under the heading, ‘Neurotic Traps.’
Power Plant Engineering
Title | Power Plant Engineering PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1666 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Electric power-plants |
ISBN |
Staging Postcommunism
Title | Staging Postcommunism PDF eBook |
Author | Vessela S. Warner |
Publisher | University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2020-01-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1609386787 |
Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe was never the same after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In the transition to a postcommunist world, “alternative theatre” found ways to grapple with political chaos, corruption, and aggressive implementation of a market economy. Three decades later, this volume is the first comprehensive examination of alternative theatre in ten former communist countries. The essays focus on companies and artists that radically changed the language and organization of theatre in the countries formerly known as the Eastern European bloc. This collection investigates the ways in which postcommunist alternative theatre negotiated and embodied change not only locally but globally as well. Contributors: Dennis Barnett, Dennis C. Beck, Violeta Decheva, Luule Epner, John Freedman, Barry Freeman, Margarita Kompelmakher, Jaak Rahesoo, Angelina Ros ̧ca, Ban ̧uta Rubess, Christopher Silsby, Andrea Tompa, S. E. Wilmer