modernism to realism on the soviet stage tairov

Modernism to Realism on the Soviet Stage: Tairov-

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Worrall, Nick, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This is the first book ong>toong> deal with the work of three important Soivet theatre direcong>toong>rs - Alexander Tairov, Evgeni Vakhtangov and Nikolai OkHlopkov - who, although familiar names in the West, are not often the subjects of full-length studies. The present one therefore sets out ong>toong> introduce their work ong>toong> theatre specialists and non-specialists alike, analysing individual productions and placing them within the context of their time. The active working life of the three direcong>toong>rs spans, in varying stages, the period of revolution and civil war with its accompanying radical artistic innovations; the conservative phase of socialist ong>realismong> in the s and s; and the more flexible and creative artistic years of the late s and s. The book contains a number of phoong>toong>graphs of the original productions as well as a chronology of theatrical and hisong>toong>rical events. Worrall's study will be of interest ong>toong> students and scholars of Russian studies and theatre hisong>toong>ry.

Kronstadt : The Fate of a Soviet Democracy

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Getzler, Israel, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This is the first major study of revolutionary Kronstadt ong>toong> span the period from February ong>toong> the uprising of March . It focuses attention on Kronstadt's forgotten golden age, between March and July , when Soviet power and democracy flourished there. Professor Getzler argues that the Kronstadters' 'Third Revolution' of March was a desperate attempt at a resong>toong>ration of that Soviet democracy which they believed had been taken from them by Bolshevik 'commissarocracy'. Pointing ong>toong> continuity in personnel, ideology and institutions linking the Kronstadt experiment in Soviet democracy with the March uprising, the author sees that continuity reflected in the Kronstadt tragedy's central figure, the long-haired, dreamy-eyed student Anaong>toong>lii Lamanov. Chairman of the Kronstadt Soviet in and chief ediong>toong>r of its Izvestiia, Lamanov became the ideologist of the uprising and was soon after executed as a 'counter-revolutionary'.

Soviet Foreign Policy in Transition

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kanet, Roger E. / Resler, Tamara J. / Miner, Deborah N., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This volume presents a wide range of papers on Soviet foreign policy relations by leading scholars both in the West and in developing countries. They cover Soviet relations with Eastern Europe and Scandinavia as well as the question of Soviet neutrality and the new political thinking. A substantial part of the study analyzes the effects of recent changes in Soviet foreign policy on developing countries. This makes the volume most unusual and, as such, it will be widely read by students and specialists of Soviet studies and international relations.

A View from Rome: On the Eve of the Modernist Crisis

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Schultenover, David G., PUBLISHER: Fordham University Press, The underlying contention of this study is that, since Catholic ong>Modernismong> was defined not by the so-called modernists but by the anti-modernists, ong>toong> understand it one must understand the anti-modernist (or integralist) mind. Schultenover argues that, since Catholic ong>Modernismong> was defined not by modernists but by the anti-modernists, ong>toong> understand it one must understand the anti-modernist (or integralist) mind.

Drama, Stage, and Audience

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Styan, J. L., PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This book shows how a play 'works' in the theatre: how it generates life, meaning and excitement on the stage for the audience. It is self evident that a play must communicate or it is not a play at all. Professor Styan argues that, while communication in drama begins with the script, the value or power of a play must be tested upon an audience. In the theatre experience, it is not so much the elements of drama on the stage or the perceptions of the audience which are important, as the relationships between them. It follows that the study of drama is the study of how the stage compels its audience ong>toong> be involved in its actual processes; it is a study of a particular social situation. Professor Styan discusses in detail the particular social situation, conditions of performance and physical playhouse in which a play thrives. There is a wealth of examples from all periods of Western drama. He especially deals with plays which make no pretence ong>toong> 'ong>realismong>', and much of the discussion turns upon the power and success of Shakespeare as a playwright. This book will appeal ong>toong> students, acong>toong>rs and direcong>toong>rs of drama, as well as the theatregoers. Professor Styan's insistence on criticism based on the theatrical experience will make this an important book for other drama critics.

Flight of the Condor

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Henrick, Richard P., PUBLISHER: Zebra Books, America's most advanced defensive surveillance satellite is hurtling ong>toong>wards Earth, leaving the United States susceptible ong>toong> a surprise attack from the Soviet Union. As the Russians prepare ong>toong> deliver a lethal nuclear blow, the fate of humanity will be fought on two battlefields -- beneath the ocean and in outer space.

The Short Story: The Reality of Artifice

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: May, Charles E., PUBLISHER: Routledge, The short song>toong>ry is one of the most difficult types of prose ong>toong> write and one of the most pleasurable ong>toong> read. From Boccaccio's Decameron ong>toong> The Collected Song>toong>ries of Reynolds Price, Charles May gives us an understanding of the hisong>toong>ry and structure of this demanding form of fiction. Beginning with a general hisong>toong>ry of the genre, he moves on ong>toong> focus on the nineteenth-century when the modern short song>toong>ry began ong>toong> come inong>toong> focus. From there he moves on ong>toong> later nineteenth-century ong>realismong> and early twentieth-century formalism and finally ong>toong> the modern renaissance of the form that shows no signs of abating. A chronology of significant events, works and figures from the genre's hisong>toong>ry, notes and references and an extensive bibliographic essay with recommended reading round out the volume.

Split Signals: Television and Politics in the Soviet Union

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mickiewicz, Ellen, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, USA, Television has changed drastically in the Soviet Union over the last three decades. In , only five percent of the population had access ong>toong> TV, but now the viewing population has reached near ong>toong>tal saturation. ong>Toong>day's main source of information in the USSR, television has become Mikhail Gorbachev's most powerful instrument for paving the way for major reform. Containing a wealth of interviews with major Soviet and American media figures and fascinating descriptions of Soviet TV shows, Ellen Mickiewicz's wide-ranging, vividly written volume compares over one hundred hours of Soviet and American television, covering programs broadcast during both the Chernenko and Gorbachev governments. Mickiewicz describes the enormous significance and popularity of news programs and discusses how Soviet journalists work in the United States. Offering a fascinating depiction of the world seen on Soviet TV, she also explores the changes in programming that have occurred as a result of glasnost.

Studying the Novel

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hawthorn, Jeremy, PUBLISHER: Hodder Education Publishers, How do literary critics distinguish between "song>toong>ry" and "plot," between a symbol and an image, or between "ong>toong>ne" and "mood"? How do we define "ong>realismong>," "ong>modernismong>," and "postong>modernismong>"? What do narrative theorists mean by "frequency" and "distance"? In the revised, expanded and updated fifth edition of this standard introduction ong>toong> the novel, these questions and many others are answered in a way that is readable and entertaining without being simplistic. A new section on cyberfiction has been included and fuller coverage of Postong>modernismong> and the novella are given, as well as extra tips for writing essays and answering exam questions. Widely acclaimed for its erudite yet accessible explanations, Studying the Novel is an invaluable guide ong>toong> the essential concepts and approaches for all students of the novel.

Forms in Modernism - A Visual Set: The Unity of Typography,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Smith, Virginia, PUBLISHER: Watson-Guptill Publications, What do typefaces and buildings have in common? A great deal, according ong>toong> typographic design expert, and former university professor, Virginia Smith. Smith believes that typography is the unifying discipline through which we can understand, analyze, and compare form in a wide range of visual mediums. This visually delightful book sets out ong>toong> prove that point by studying forms--"shapes and their varieties and permutations--"in all of the other design arts. The main focus is on architecture, but the book also looks at fashion, furniture, and common artifacts. Smith believes that there is a "visual landscape" of periods in design, where all of the visual arts treat from in similar ways. "Forms in ong>Modernismong>--"A Visual Set identifies some of these similarities--"including striping, skewing, stretching, compressing, and elongating--"across mediums. The majority of her examples appeared in the first half of the 20th century, and lasted from early European ong>modernismong> up through the American mid-century and the International Style. More than just a book designed ong>toong> prove a thesis, "Forms in ong>Modernismong>--"A Visual Set provides an interesting visual journey through the signature styles of the last century.

Chesnutt and Realism: A Study of the Novels

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Simmons, Ryan, PUBLISHER: University Alabama Press, An important examination of Charles Chesnutt as a practitioner of ong>realismong>. With the release of previously unpublished novels and a recent proliferation of critical studies on his life and work, Charles W. Chesnutt () has emerged as a major American writer of his time--the age of Howells, Twain, and Wharong>toong>n. In "Chesnutt and ong>Realismong>, "Ryan Simmons breaks new ground by theorizing how understandings of literary ong>realismong> have shaped, and can continue ong>toong> shape, the reception of Chesnutt's work. Although Chesnutt is typically acknowledged as the most prominent African American writer of the realist period, little attention has been paid ong>toong> the central question of this study: what does it mean ong>toong> call Chesnutt a realist? A writer whose career was circumscribed by the dismal racial politics of his era, Chesnutt refused ong>toong> conform ong>toong> literary conventions for depicting race. Nor did he use his imaginative skills ong>toong> evade the realities he and other African Americans faced. Rather, he experimented with ways of portraying reality that could elicit an appropriate, proportionate response ong>toong> it, as Simmons demonstrates in extended readings of each of Chestnutt's novels, including important unpublished works that have been overlooked by previous critics. "Chesnutt and ong>Realismong>" also addresses a curiously neglected subject in American literary studies--the relationship between American literary ong>realismong> and race. By taking Chesnutt seriously as a contribuong>toong>r ong>toong> ong>realismong>, this book articulates the strategies by which one African American intellectual helped ong>toong> define the discourses that influenced his fate. Ryan Simmons is Assistant Professor of English at Utah Valley State College

The Cambridge Companion to Brecht

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Thomson, Peter / Sacks, Glendyr, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This Companion offers students crucial guidance on Brecht's theatrical career from beginning ong>toong> end, bringing ong>toong>gether the contrasting views of major critics and active practitioners ong>toong> offer a provocative overview. The nineteen newly-commissioned essays place Brecht's creative work in its hisong>toong>rical and biographical context, with separate essays on seven major plays, on the poetry, the theatrical theories, the use of music, the innovations in stage design, the ways of working with acong>toong>rs and his hugely influential career with the Berliner Ensemble.

The Republic of Armenia, Vol. IV: Between Crescent and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hovannisian, Richard G., PUBLISHER: University of California Press, With these two volumes, Richard Hovannisian completes his definitive hisong>toong>ry of the first independent Armenian state in modern times and provides the basis for comparison with the new Armenian republic established in after seven decades of Soviet rule. Based on Armenian, Russian, Turkish, German, Italian, French, and English-language archival materials, these volumes provide the first comprehensive, multidimensional analysis of this critical turning point in Armenian hisong>toong>ry--a period clouded in misinformation and controversy. Volume Four examines the final months of the Armenia republic and the destructive impact of a Soviet-Turkish entente on the goal of a united, independent Armenia. The Turkish-Armenian war from September ong>toong> December culminated in the loss of half of the Armenian republic and the Sovietization of what was left. The experiment in Armenian independence had failed; and the Armenian people, unable ong>toong> gather ong>toong>gether in a common homeland, remained scattered among communities in the diaspora and in the Soviet Union. At the time, no one could predict that a new opportunity for independence would unfold before the end of the century.

Political Thought and International Relations: Variations on

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bell, Duncan, PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Political ong>realismong> dominated the study of international relations during the Cold War. Since then, however, its fortunes have been mixed: pushed onong>toong> the backfoot during s, it has in recent years retuned ong>toong> the centre of scholarly debate in international relations. Yet despite its significance in international relations theory, ong>realismong> plays little role in contemporary international political theory. It is often associated with a form of crude realpolitik that ignores the role of ethical considerations in political life. This book explores an alternative understanding of ong>realismong>. The contribuong>toong>rs view ong>realismong> chiefly as a diverse and complex mode of political and ethical theorising rather than either a value-neutral branch of social science or the unreflective defence of the national interest. They analyse a variety of hisong>toong>rical and philosophical themes, probing the potential and the pathologies of realist thought. A number of the chapters offer critical interpretations of key figures in the canon of twentieth century ong>realismong>, including Hans Morgenthau, E. H. Carr, and Reinhold Niebuhr. Others seek ong>toong> widen the lens through which ong>realismong> is usually viewed, exploring the writings of Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and Leo Strauss. Finally, a number of the contribuong>toong>rs engage with general issues in political theory, including the meaning and value of pessimism, the relationship between power and ethics, the role of normative political theory, and what might constitute political 'reality.' Straddling international relations and political theory, this book makes a significant contribution ong>toong> both fields.

The United Front: The Tuc and the Russians

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Calhoun, Daniel F. / Calhoun, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, The book concerns the Soviet effort during the s ong>toong> make contact with - and if possible revolutionize - the European labour movement, by first establishing a special relationship with the British Trades Union Congress. The ultimate failure of that effort, after the collapse of the general strike in , inspired Trotsky ong>toong> try one last time ong>toong> oust Stalin, a confrontation that led ong>toong> utter collapse of the Trotskyite opposition in . The author suggests the failure of this particular 'united front' effort was a major facong>toong>r in the sectarianism and isolationism of the Communist movement from ong>toong> , and thus had a significant affect on the rise of the Nazi party in Germany.

Passport to Hollywood

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Morrison, James, PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press, In Passport ong>toong> Hollywood, James Morrison examines a series of Hollywood films by direcong>toong>rs from European art-cinemas. Drawing widely on current research in film theory, film hisong>toong>ry, and cultural studies, he traces the influence of European filmmakers in Hollywood from the s ong>toong> the s and illuminates the relation between ong>modernismong> and mass-culture in American movies. By interpreting important American films, Morrison also shows how these films illustrate key issues of cultural hierarchy and national culture over fifty years of American cinema. In addition, he explores the complex and often contradicong>toong>ry ways that these Hollywood movies conceptualize ideas about "foreignness". Using insightful close viewings, Morrison demonstrates new connections among ong>modernismong>, postong>modernismong>, and American movies.

Edith Wharton's Dialogue with Realism and Sentimental

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hoeller, Hildegard, PUBLISHER: University Press of Florida, Arguing against the prevailing view of Edith Wharong>toong>n as a realist writer, Hildegard Hoeller opens up the Wharong>toong>n canon by finding the "real" Wharong>toong>n in the writer's sentimental voice and in her critique of ong>realismong>. With this focus on a blind spot in Wharong>toong>n criticism, Hoeller demonstrates that the celebrated American writer created a dialogue between the two literary traditions. Most analyses of Wharong>toong>n's work describe her early triumph as a realist and then her decline in the s inong>toong> sentimental fiction. Instead, Hoeller examines important sentimental moments in Wharong>toong>n's "realist" masterpieces and finds ong>realismong> in the sentimental "minor" work (including the undervalued novel, The Mother's Recompense). Hoeller shows that Wharong>toong>n used the sentimental voice both ong>toong> express the truth of female desire and ong>toong> express her critique of male ong>realismong>. In this, Wharong>toong>n is shown ong>toong> be fully in control of her art from the beginning ong>toong> the end of her career. Using Wharong>toong>n as a case study, Hoeller maintains that the ongoing argument about the value of American sentimental fiction could benefit by seriously considering sentimental aesthetics. Only then, she says, will the term sentimental cease ong>toong> be a label for inferior, female, and popular fiction and become a serious literary concept. This innovative book will be of interest ong>toong> scholars of 19th- and 20th-century American fiction as well as feminist scholars and those interested in the ongoing debate about the American literary canon.

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The International Politics of Central Asia

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Anderson, John, PUBLISHER: Manchester University Press, Central Asia is a fascinating region yet remote and unfamiliar ong>toong> many people. This new study provides an introduction ong>toong> the politics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgzstan, Tajikistan, Turkestan, and Uzbekistan. The early chapters introduce the readers ong>toong> the hisong>toong>ry of Russian and Soviet involvement in the region up until the collapse of communism, whilst the bulk of the book focuses on the politics of independence. The search for national identity in each region and the influence of Islam are discussed and attention is paid ong>toong> political, economic and international developments. A central theme of the book is the importance of informal politics associated with national, regional and tribal networks in shaping the evolution of the five states.

Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Rasula, Jed / Conley, Tim, PUBLISHER: Action Books, Poetry. BURNING CITY acts as a "multisensory Baedecker" ong>toong> the many incarnations of international ong>modernismong> from . Inspired by the abandoned plans of the early avant-garde poet Yvan Goll ong>toong> write a hisong>toong>ry of modernity through the poetry of that era, scholars Jed Rasula and Tim Conley have carried out Goll's project, scouring the small journals and magazines of the period for both lost and seminal texts. BURNING CITY is organized not just according ong>toong> the cities which inspired the texts--Paris, Cracow, Buenos Aires, and so on--but according ong>toong> such icons of the modern urban experience as "Cineland," "Music Hall," "Electric Man." BURNING CITY makes a new contribution ong>toong> anthologies of both poetry and ong>modernismong> by its thematic focus on city life, by its inclusion of poets from languages and nationalities seldom represented in standard US surveys, and by its preservation of the typographic versatility of the this feverishly innovating period."'The fascination of cities, ' wrote Langsong>toong>n Hughes, 'seizes me, burning like a fever in the blood.' BURNING CITY enacts that passion with asong>toong>nishing skill and learning. Whatever else ong>Modernismong> was or was not, its geography was that of the New Urbanism: from Paris and Berlin ong>toong> Sao Paulo and Shanghai, from such icons as the Eiffel ong>Toong>wer and the Empire State Building ong>toong> Moscow's Nikitin Circus, it is the City in all its contradictions, its splendors and miseries, that was ong>toong> become the laboraong>toong>ry of ong>modernismong>, still dominating our dreams and nightmares a century after the fact. Truly global in its reach, yet local in its exacting particularities, BURNING CITY breaks down the old familiar isms and genre divisions, introducing us ong>toong> writings we've never seen before, printed side by side with our favorite poems by Huidobro and Musil, Mayakovsky and Mina Loy. In a nutshell, the map of ong>modernismong> will never be the same "--Marjorie Perloff

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Diego Saves the Sloth

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Romay, Alexis / Mawhinney, Art, PUBLISHER: Turtleback Books, Sammy the Sloth has fallen asleep on a tree branch during a big windsong>toong>rm. It's up ong>toong> Diego ong>toong> save the day Come along with Diego as he flies through the rainforest ong>toong> get ong>toong> his sleepy friend. Watch out for the Bobo Brothers on the way Acquista Ora

Musician's Survival Guide: To Life on the Road

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hemmings, Stella, PUBLISHER: Cimino Publishing Group, This book aims ong>toong> give you all the information you need ong>toong> survive life on the road, including detailed advice on how ong>toong> cope with everything from van breakdowns, lost passports, gear crushed in transit, surviving, terrible sound systems and more.

Moscow Theatres for Young People: A Cultural History of

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Van De Water, Manon, PUBLISHER: Palgrave MacMillan, "Moscow Theatres for Young People "shows how the ong>toong>talitarian ideology of the Soviet period shaped the practices of Soviet theatre for youth, as exemplified by the two oldest theatres for children and youth in Moscow: the Central Children's Theatre/RAMT and the Moscow Tiuz. Weaving ong>toong>gether politics, economics, pedagogy, and aesthetics the author paints a vivid picture of the theatrical developments in Soviet/Russian theatre for young people from its inception in up ong>toong> the new millennium, revealing the complex intersections between theatre and its socio-hisong>toong>rical conditions.

Intelligence

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Goldberg, Marshall, PUBLISHER: Dufour Editions, Tension-filled sequel ong>toong> A Deadly Operation. A scientific struggle for computer supremacy. Two Soviet scientists are on the verge of developing the first "bio-computer", an electronic-organic synthesis that could result in the first true artificial intelligence. Just before their experiments are completed, both scientists fall inong>toong> a deep psychotic state caused by an amphetamine overdose. In desperation, the KGB decides ong>toong> take the most expendable of the two ong>toong> the U.S. for experimental drug therapy. The therapy works, but ong>toong>o well; the scientist's brain becomes a receiver/transmitter, on a mystical plane which the bio-computer's super-intelligence might have reached. Both the CIA and the KGB learn the results of the operation. The ensuing explosive confrontation between the two governments constitutes the thrilling heart of this book.

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