Last Tape on Stage in Translation
Unwinding Beckett’s Spool in Turkey
This study examines translated theatre texts as blueprints for production, focusing on Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. By looking into the Turkish translations and productions of the play, this book brings a new dimension to approaching theatre through translation.
This study examines translated theatre texts as blueprints for production, focusing on Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. By looking into the Turkish translations and productions of the play, this book brings a new dimension to approaching theatre through translation.
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Lavinia Fontana’s Mythological Paintings
Art, Beauty, and Wisdom
This volume investigates Lavinia Fontana’s mythological paintings. The first female painter of sixteenth-century Italy to depict female nudes and mythological subjects, Fontana challenged the male tradition of history painting and paved the way for future female artists.
This volume investigates Lavinia Fontana’s mythological paintings. The first female painter of sixteenth-century Italy to depict female nudes and mythological subjects, Fontana challenged the male tradition of history painting and paved the way for future female artists.
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Millais exposes the myths that surround Le Corbusier, detailing the endless failures of his proposals and his projects and arguing that his influence on architecture was disastrous, as traditional buildings were destroyed and replaced by featureless boxes of varying sizes.
Millais exposes the myths that surround Le Corbusier, detailing the endless failures of his proposals and his projects and arguing that his influence on architecture was disastrous, as traditional buildings were destroyed and replaced by featureless boxes of varying sizes.
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Le mensonge
Multidisciplinary Perspectives in French Studies
This collection of essays considers the political, social, and artistic impact of the dichotomy of truth and lies in French culture. Bringing together research from diverse disciplines, this work is of great relevance to students and researchers alike.
This collection of essays considers the political, social, and artistic impact of the dichotomy of truth and lies in French culture. Bringing together research from diverse disciplines, this work is of great relevance to students and researchers alike.
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Lee Miller’s Surrealist Eye
New Insights
While popular interest in Lee Miller’s life and photography has grown, her true worth as a prominent Surrealist artist has been overlooked. This collection revalidates her position, not as a muse, but as one of the twentieth century’s most influential female Surrealist artists.
While popular interest in Lee Miller’s life and photography has grown, her true worth as a prominent Surrealist artist has been overlooked. This collection revalidates her position, not as a muse, but as one of the twentieth century’s most influential female Surrealist artists.
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Leonardo da Vinci and The Virgin of the Rocks
One Painter, Two Virgins, Twenty-Five Years
This is the first monograph dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci’s commission for The Virgin of the Rocks, which he painted twice. It opens up Leonardo’s world and unveils the secret realms of human dissection and philosophy that inspired the creation of the painter’s two masterpieces
This is the first monograph dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci’s commission for The Virgin of the Rocks, which he painted twice. It opens up Leonardo’s world and unveils the secret realms of human dissection and philosophy that inspired the creation of the painter’s two masterpieces
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This volume combines the fields of intellectual studies, religion, literature, and visual culture to explore the complexities of conceptual paradigms that represent various manifestations of the idea of light.
This volume combines the fields of intellectual studies, religion, literature, and visual culture to explore the complexities of conceptual paradigms that represent various manifestations of the idea of light.
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These studies offer a fresh look at the complexity of artistic and cultural contacts, transfers, and exchanges between Europe and the Middle East. They reach far beyond the geographical regions where these cultures have met and interacted throughout their long histories.
These studies offer a fresh look at the complexity of artistic and cultural contacts, transfers, and exchanges between Europe and the Middle East. They reach far beyond the geographical regions where these cultures have met and interacted throughout their long histories.
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This book investigates the Linguistic Landscape of Cameroon, a heavily multilingual postcolonial nation. It examines messages on signposts as a window into the country's sociolinguistic reality, revealing significant findings about this complex environment.
This book investigates the Linguistic Landscape of Cameroon, a heavily multilingual postcolonial nation. It examines messages on signposts as a window into the country’s sociolinguistic reality, revealing significant findings about this complex environment.
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Literacy, Literature and Identity
Multiple Perspectives
This volume shows how literature and language shape the identities of individuals and societies. With a truly global reach, it draws on diverse contexts: from women in North America and African identity challenges to New Zealand’s Maoris.
This volume shows how literature and language shape the identities of individuals and societies. With a truly global reach, it draws on diverse contexts: from women in North America and African identity challenges to New Zealand’s Maoris.
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Filmmaker Billy Wilder considered himself a writer. This book offers academic yet accessible literary readings of nine of his most significant films, informed by literary criticism, Gender Studies, and Film Studies. For film students, English students and Wilder fans alike.
Filmmaker Billy Wilder considered himself a writer. This book offers academic yet accessible literary readings of nine of his most significant films, informed by literary criticism, Gender Studies, and Film Studies. For film students, English students and Wilder fans alike.
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Lolita between Adaptation and Interpretation
From Nabokov's Novel and Screenplay to Kubrick's Film
Presenting an analysis of three versions of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, this investigation explores how Nabokov envisioned his creation rendered in a movie, and the divergences between this and said adaptation.
Presenting an analysis of three versions of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, this investigation explores how Nabokov envisioned his creation rendered in a movie, and the divergences between this and said adaptation.
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Longing, Weakness and Temptation
From Myth to Artistic Creations
This book explores the universal themes of longing, weakness, and temptation by comparing literary works influenced by biblical and classic texts. It shows how the source text speaks through the new work and how the new work forces new meanings from the source.
This book explores the universal themes of longing, weakness, and temptation by comparing literary works influenced by biblical and classic texts. It shows how the source text speaks through the new work and how the new work forces new meanings from the source.
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Looking Through Gender
Post-1980 British and Irish Drama
This book explores the shaping and performing of gender identity in British and Irish theatres since the 1980s. From a queer theory standpoint, it reads several plays to unmask exploiting mechanisms of gender regulation and resist confining notions of identity.
This book explores the shaping and performing of gender identity in British and Irish theatres since the 1980s. From a queer theory standpoint, it reads several plays to unmask exploiting mechanisms of gender regulation and resist confining notions of identity.
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Lucian, a 2nd-century satirist, composed the Dialogues of the Sea Gods: a collection of amusing dialogues between figures from Greek myth. This volume examines his work, contemporary views on myth, and the flourishing of Greek culture under Roman rule.
Lucian, a 2nd-century satirist, composed the Dialogues of the Sea Gods: a collection of amusing dialogues between figures from Greek myth. This volume examines his work, contemporary views on myth, and the flourishing of Greek culture under Roman rule.
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Lucky Strikes and a Three Martini Lunch
Thinking about Television’s Mad Men
Twenty-six authors explore the Emmy-winning series Mad Men. In eighteen engaging essays, this collection delves into the show's cultural impact, complex characters, and its interrogations of nostalgia, identity, gender, and mass communication.
Twenty-six authors explore the Emmy-winning series Mad Men. In eighteen engaging essays, this collection delves into the show’s cultural impact, complex characters, and its interrogations of nostalgia, identity, gender, and mass communication.
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Magical Suspension
The Movies as a Fun Experience
This book argues that movies appealed because they were fun. It examines the magic, myth, and memory that made films so enjoyable, and considers their significance as a cultural movement that has changed our lives. After all, the whole world is watching.
This book argues that movies appealed because they were fun. It examines the magic, myth, and memory that made films so enjoyable, and considers their significance as a cultural movement that has changed our lives. After all, the whole world is watching.
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Make Me Yours
How Art Seduces
Offering a subjective approach, González discusses the relational and psychodynamic aspects of the encounter between the work of the art and the viewer; one that, when seduction operates, is characterised by interplay, flow and conflict.
Offering a subjective approach, González discusses the relational and psychodynamic aspects of the encounter between the work of the art and the viewer; one that, when seduction operates, is characterised by interplay, flow and conflict.
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Making Meaning, Making Money
Directions for the Arts and Cultural Industries in the Creative Age
The arts are at the heart of policy discussions, but as culture is justified by its commercial value, is its intrinsic worth at risk? Leading thinkers debate the directions cultural policy should take in the future. For artists and policy makers.
The arts are at the heart of policy discussions, but as culture is justified by its commercial value, is its intrinsic worth at risk? Leading thinkers debate the directions cultural policy should take in the future. For artists and policy makers.
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Making Peace In and With the World
The Gülen Movement and Eco-Justice
This study of the Gülen movement explores contemporary Islamic thought on eco-justice. It argues that true peace requires two dimensions: peace between differing human communities and peace between humanity and nature, challenging exclusivist views.
This study of the Gülen movement explores contemporary Islamic thought on eco-justice. It argues that true peace requires two dimensions: peace between differing human communities and peace between humanity and nature, challenging exclusivist views.
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