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Books on: absurdist

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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

This pioneering study of the African short story offers a two-part approach to a literary form that has long been neglected by scholars on the continent. Balogun first offers a general survey method and approach for close textual analysis, followed by discussions of two representative writers. The ...
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This pioneering study of the African short story offers a two-part approach to a literary form that has long been neglected by scholars on the continent. Balogun first offers a general survey method and approach for close textual analysis, followed by discussions of two representative writers. The work of Achebe, a traditional realist, and Taban lo Liyong, a post-modernist experimentalist, is examined for general themes and structures. Detailed examinations of Achebe's Girls at War and lo Liyong's Fixions and The Uniformed Man are also included.
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The Thought and Art of Albert Camus

Book by Thomas B. Hanna; Henry Regnery, 1958

Subjects:

Camus, Albert--1913-1960

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1969-2000

Book by Thomas S. Hischak; Oxford University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Theater--New York (State)--New York--History--20th Century

Collections: Entire Library

Volume Four of the distinguished American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama series offers a thorough, candid, and fascinating look at the theater in New York during the last decades of the twentieth century.
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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

Thirty-three leading American and British playwrights, from Robert Anderson to Paul Zindel, discuss their own work and contemporary drama and offer projections about theater for the 21st century. Proceeding from the premise that recent drama in various ways represents a reaction to the Theater of ...
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Thirty-three leading American and British playwrights, from Robert Anderson to Paul Zindel, discuss their own work and contemporary drama and offer projections about theater for the 21st century. Proceeding from the premise that recent drama in various ways represents a reaction to the Theater of the Absurd, interviewer DiGaetani terms the diverse responses "postmodernism," or a movement away from "old-fashioned modernism." This concept, while not universally accepted by the playwrights, becomes a point of departure for lively dialogue, providing insights into the dynamics of contemporary theater.
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Modern American Drama, 1945-2000

Book by C. W. E. Bigsby; Cambridge University Press, 2000

Subjects:

American Drama--20th Century--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

In this new edition of the widely-acclaimed Modern American Drama Christopher Bigsby completes his survey of postwar theater and brings the reader up to 2000. While retaining the key elements of the first edition, including surveys of major figures such as Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, David ...
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In this new edition of the widely-acclaimed Modern American Drama Christopher Bigsby completes his survey of postwar theater and brings the reader up to 2000. While retaining the key elements of the first edition, including surveys of major figures such as Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, David Mamet, and Sam Shepard, Bigsby also explores recent works by established dramatists.
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Journal Articles on: absurdist

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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.

Collections: Entire Library

...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...example, 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

Subjects:

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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Pinter's the Dumb Waiter

Journal article by R. A. Buck; The Explicator, Vol. 56, 1997

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...engage in a process of "filling in" that is questionable in an absurdist play such as this one (495). Not finding a rationally patterned...part of the interpretive process; however, by "filling in" an absurdist play, we risk losing sight of the precise language of the...
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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

Collections: Entire Library

...decisive in their efforts to bring sanity to absurdist situations. The part-historic, part-folkloric...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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Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Salih's Season of Migration to the North

Journal article by Christopher S. Nassaar; The Explicator, Vol. 56, 1998

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...never come. Salihs book is a devastating absurdist denunciation of life dominated by a...him, showing his choice of Eros to be absurdist. Moreover, nature, in its immensity...Season is that the choice of Eros in an absurdist world is legitimate but frail and ephemeral...

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Magazine Articles on: absurdist

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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

...Ivess All in the Timing--capture the absurdist ethos in a manner reminiscent of Paris...to America in the 90s, reconfiguring absurdist responses to the horrors of World War...Ionescos The Chairs, is self-consciously absurdist. In a shop that sells maps and globes...
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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

Collections: Entire Library

...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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Laura Kightlinger

Magazine article by Dan Avery; The Advocate, August 28, 2007

Subjects:

Comedians--Interviews, Kightlinger, Laura--Interviews

Collections: Entire Library

...She first made gay waves as the sadistic Nurse Sheila on Will Grace. Now Laura Kightlinger is the titular star of the absurdist comedy The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman. With the series in its second season on IFC, Laura continues to ace Tinseltowns...
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Interplanetary Angst

Magazine article by Stephen Rebello; The Advocate, December 6, 2005

Subjects:

Far Side of the Moon (Motion picture)--Movie reviews, Motion pictures--Movie reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Stephen Rebello Far Side of the Moon * Written and directed by Robert Lepage * TLA Releasing Skewed, oddly funny, absurdist, and visually inventive, Far Side of the Moon, the latest from prodigiously talented Canadian playwright-director-actor Robert...
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Olaf Breuning: Metro Pictures

Magazine article by Michael Wilson; Artforum International, Vol. 42, April 2004

Subjects:

Breuning, Olaf--Exhibitions, Breuning, Olaf--Works, Experimental films--Criticism and interpretation, Experimental films--Exhibitions, Experimental movies--Criticism and interpretation, Experimental movies--Exhibitions

Collections: Entire Library

...Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Home is a relentless parade of absurdist scenarios that veer from situation to situation and mood to...interventionist comedy show Trigger Happy TV, in which similarly absurdist minidramas are staged unannounced for an audience of bewildered...

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Newspaper Articles on: absurdist

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Lazarus Man; Venice Premiere Takes Absurdist Look at Life

Newspaper article; Sarasota Herald Tribune, February 20, 2005

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

Lazarus Man; Venice Premiere Takes Absurdist Look at Life. Byline: JAY HANDELMAN jay.handelman@heraldtribune...possible interpretation. Myroup and Woodland expect the absurdist play to disturb some people because of the way it "presents...
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Modern-Day Absurdist Finds His Uses

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

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

Modern-Day Absurdist Finds His Uses. Byline: NICK HACKWORTH Andreas Slominski...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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Sedentary Sensation; Absurdist: Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion (Seated)

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

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, 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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Out & About

Newspaper article by Frappa Stout; The Washington Times, April 1, 1999

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

OUT ABOUT by Frappa Stout WAITING FOR BECKETT Hes known for his dark, absurdist dramas, but locked away in Samuel Becketts oeuvre is a trove of "dramaticules" - short, experimental plays - that scream to be...
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That's Rich! Coming Soon: Rich Hall

Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), February 15, 2008

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

Thats Rich! Coming Soon: Rich Hall. RICH HALL, the deadpan master of absurdist irony, is coming to Middlesbrough Theatre on Monday, March 17 ... and thats a fact. Another fact is that Matt Groening based the...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: absurdist

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Albee, Edward

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...one 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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Gao Xingjian

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, 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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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...abandoning 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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