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Tradition and Modernity in the African Short Story: An Introduction to a Literature in Search of Critics

Book by F. Odun Balogun; Greenwood Press, 1991

Subjects:

Africa--In Literature, Short Stories, African (English)--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...contemplates suicide as a solution, the absurdist in Africa is like the Afro-American...in nothingness Lester93 . The African absurdist writer does not believe that life in...a way of correction. The African absurdist may have a pessimistic, cynical vision...
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Visions and Revisions: (Re)Constructing Science Fiction

Book by Robert M. Philmus; University of Liverpool Press, 2005

Subjects:

Science Fiction--Authorship, Science Fiction--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...thereby become aware of High Castles Absurdist meaning (also in its positive, or constructive...sufficiently numerous to give High Castle an Absurdist feel. The near-invisibility of the...skeptical of the reality of High Castles Absurdist construction: history, especially as...
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Shots in the Mirror: Crime Films and Society

Book by Nicole Rafter; Oxford University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Gangster Films--History And Criticism, Justice, Administration Of, In Motion Pictures, Motion Pictures--Social Aspects--United States, Police Films--History And Criticism, Prison Films--History And Criticism

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...Incorporating the trends Cawelti detected, absurdist crime films are nostalgic yet undeniably...large followings and critical acclaim, absurdist movies have now extended the crime film...Caweltis essay was first published. Absurdist films take many forms, but they are...
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A Search for a Postmodern Theater: Interviews with Contemporary Playwrights

Book by John L. Digaetani; Greenwood Press, 1991

Subjects:

American Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Drama, Dramatists, American--20th Century--Interviews, Dramatists, English--20th Century--Interviews, English Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, Playwriting, Postmodernism (Literature), Theater--History--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Wertenbaker: Certainly absurdist playwrights like Beckett and...and the reason is that the absurdist tradition in theater cannot...a different route from the absurdists, partly because of the world...sense of the world. Maybe the absurdist playwrights thought that the...
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Harold Pinter: The Poetics of Silence

Book by James R. Hollis; Southern Illinois University Press, 1970

Subjects:

Drama--Technique, Pinter, Harold--1930---Technique, Poetics, Silence In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...remain "human, all-too-human." The absurdist point has been made repeatedly and the...through his abandonment of realism the absurdist often lessens the apologetic success...they think the world looks like. If the absurdist wishes to make his case more effectively...

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The Existential Play in Truffaut's Early Films

Journal article by Allen Thiher; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 5, 1977

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Film & stage music, Poetry, Truffaut, Francois (1932-84), World War I

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...desire to portray and to probe the modern absurdist sensibility. Particularly important...fifties. For it now seems clear that the absurdist sensibility conditioned the experiential...most primary level of mimesis that these absurdist configurations are most evident, since...
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A Stage in Search of a Tradition: The Dynamics of Form and Content in Post-Maoist Theatre

Journal article by Xiaomei Chen; Asian Theatre Journal, Vol. 18, 2001

Subjects:

Drama--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Experimental theater--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Theater--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...dramatic forms, such as epic theatre and absurdist theatre, to revive a stagnant theatre...China in the first place. So-called absurdist plays such as Chezhan (Bus Stop; 1983...despite their seeming borrowing of absurdist theatre elements from the West, in essence...
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Of Rocks and Marlin: The Existentialist Agon in Camus's the Myth of Sisyphus and Hemingway's the Old Man and the Sea

Journal article by Dwight Eddins; The Hemingway Review, Vol. 21, 2001

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Authors, American--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Authors, French--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Camus, Albert--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Existentialism--Portrayals, depictions, etc., The Myth of Sisyphus (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Old Man and the Sea (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...ultimate futility. Camuss conqueror, an absurdist hero and spokesman, phrases it pungently...yielding to despair is the essence of absurdist heroism. As Camus says of Sisyphus...live on hope do not thrive in ... the absurdist universe, where kindness yields to generosity...
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Domesticating Madness, Revisiting Polishness: the Cinema of Marek Koterski

Journal article by Ewa Mazierska; Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 56, 2004

Subjects:

Cinematography, Koterski, Marek, Motion picture criticism, Motion picture directors & producers, Personal profiles, Poland, Social identity

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...reality and his style is "absurdist." "Absurd" literally...similarities with other absurdists in Polish cinema, literature...as of exaggeration, absurdist humor, and the grotesque...connects Koterski with the absurdist strand of Polish cultural...
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Evolution or Revolution in Black Theater: A Look at the Cultural Nationalist Agenda in Select Plays by Amiri Baraka

Journal article by Sandra G. Shannon; African American Review, Vol. 37, 2003

Subjects:

African American dramatists--Criticism, interpretation, etc., African American theater--Evaluation, African American theater--History, Baraka, Amiri--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Black nationalism--History

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...decisive in their efforts to bring sanity to absurdist situations. The part-historic, part...among the emptiness in popular European absurdist theater, the lack of morality in white...Barakas play cancels out each of Becketts absurdist strategies and culminates in a total...

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Absurd Again

Magazine article by Steven Drukman; American Theatre, Vol. 11, December 1994

Subjects:

Absurd (Philosophy)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Theater--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...Chairs, is self-consciously absurdist. In a shop that sells maps...with the AIDS crisis. "The absurdist response," says Dietz...and stresses that "if absurdists are poets of the stage, these...wave of boredom." The plays absurdist logic seems to make sense...
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Theatre in Prague, Past and Present

Magazine article by Rachel Falconer; Contemporary Review, Vol. 262, January 1993

Subjects:

Czechoslovakia--Art, Theaters--Evaluation

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...Jan Grossman. This great director of absurdist theatre has the intellectual insight...directors Forman and Menzel, and the comic absurdist playwright, Ladislav Smocek. The Drama...the Balustrade, says dismissively that absurdist theatre in the west raised aesthetic...
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Stop Making Sense: It Is a Cousin to Satire, Surrealism, Whimsy and Slapstick, but the Absurd Inhabits a Weird World All of Its Own

Magazine article by Will Self; New Statesman, Vol. 135, October 30, 2006

Subjects:

Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Authors--Works, Books--Criticism and interpretation, Books--Prices and rates, Writers--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Works

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...the skip-load. But then, I am an absurdist myself, so Im bound to think this way...a chilly political reality. Kurkovs absurdist mentor is Daniil Kharms, whose deceptively...dream recounted, so the retailing of absurdist anecdotes propels them insistently through...
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Rage of the Rhinoceros

Magazine article by Deryl Davis; Stage Directions, Vol. 14, April 2001

Subjects:

Entertainment technology & design, Ionesco, Eugene, Sound design, Theater

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...began composing that seminal work of absurdist theater, Rhinoceros, he was thinking...quacking, honking rhinos might fit Ionescos absurdist vision, it lacks the genuine menace...down-an appropriate metaphor for this absurdist classic, and for the experience of the...
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Ligeti's Half-century

Magazine article by Robin Holloway; Musical Times, Vol. 145, Winter 2004

Subjects:

Classical music, Composers, Ligeti, Gyorgy, Musicology

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...coruscating mirror-image, farcical and absurdist. The purity and essentialism go alongside...direction; his efforts closest to this absurdist aesthetic produce two of the books best...on speed and mounted on pins, in an absurdist farrago of inspired zaniness. And...

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Scott Pilgrim's Progress Is Absurdist Fun

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), November 18, 2010

Subjects:

Blu-ray (Optical disk format), Entertainment industry, O'Malley, Bryan Lee, Universal Studios Home Entertainment

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Scott Pilgrims Progress Is Absurdist Fun. Byline: Joseph Szadkowski, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The comic...World unless accompanied by a 20-something, as this clever absurdist comedy might float over an older dudes noggin. Best extras...
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Summer in the City; Bat Walks, Mini Salsa Sensations, Absurdist Macbeth and Water Sculptures; Just Some of the Ways to Fill Every Day in August with Fun

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 31, 2009

Subjects:

Festivals

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Summer in the City; Bat Walks, Mini Salsa Sensations, Absurdist Macbeth and Water Sculptures; Just Some of the Ways to Fill...uk) 10 Screw your courage to the sticking-place, as absurdist theatre company Get Over It come to town with their all...
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Sedentary Sensation; Absurdist: Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion (Seated)

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 14, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Sedentary Sensation; Absurdist: Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion (Seated). Byline: SARAH FRATER EVEN by the standards of experimental theatre, Jonathan...
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Modern-Day Absurdist Finds His Uses

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 26, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Modern-Day Absurdist Finds His Uses. Byline: NICK HACKWORTH Andreas Slominski Serpentine...World War, the Dadaists wallowed in despairing absurdity. Todays art absurdists, of whom German artist Andreas Slominski is a leading light, have...
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Theres Method in Absurdist Madness; Odd Couple: Ciaran McCauley and Sandra OMalley as the Smiths

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 14, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Theres Method in Absurdist Madness; Odd Couple: Ciaran McCauley and Sandra OMalley as the Smiths. Byline: John McKeown THE first of Romano-French playwrightEugeneIonescosanti...

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Gao Xingjian

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...both of whom he has translated into Chinese), Artaud , and Brecht , he has a global vision, experimental technique, absurdist leanings, and a skepical point of view that place him squarely in the ranks of literary modernism. In his plays, Gao often...
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O'Brien, Flann

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...As Flann OBrien, he published four comic novels in English, all of which display his brilliant abilities at wordplay and absurdist sensibility: At Swim-Two-Birds (1939, repr. 1960), a wildly funny literary send-up widely considered his masterpiece...
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Albee, Edward

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...of the leading dramatists of his generation, b. Washington, D.C. Much of his most characteristic work constitutes an absurdist commentary on American life. Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962, film 1966), a Tony Award winner that is generally regarded...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...traditional devices of the drama, including logical plot development, meaningful dialogue, and intelligible characters, absurdist playwrights sought to convey modern humanitys feelings of bewilderment, alienation, and despair the sense that reality is...

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