circus history - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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The Pickle Clowns: New American Circus Comedy

Book by Joel Schechter; Southern Illinois University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Clowns--Interviews, Pickle Family Circus

Collections: Entire Library

The clowns in the troupe, current artistic director Tandy Beal, & comic dance choreographer Kimi Okada discuss their acts, comic dances, & the current state of the circus.
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Polly of the Circus

Book by Margaret Mayo, Harry M. Bunker; Dodd, Mead and Company, 1908

Subjects:

Circus Performers--Fiction, Circus--Fiction, Drama

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Polly, I have never seen a circus," Douglas told her half-regretfully...impart a bit of forbidden family history. It was this look in the round...air of condescension; "only circuses draws more people an churches...right, its jes the same with a circus. One year ye give em the rottenest...
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The History of the Study of Landforms - Vol. 2

Book by Richard J.Chorley, Robert P.Beckinsale, Antony J.Dunn; Routledge, 1973

Subjects:

Davis, William Morris--1850-1934, Geomorphology--History

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THE HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF LANDFORMS OR THE DEVELOPMENT...February 1931 (Courtesy J.H. Maxson) THE HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF LANDFORMS OR THE DEVELOPMENT...1932 752 Preface Volume Two of The History of the Study of Landforms needs no further...
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A Short and Remarkable History of New York City

Book by Jane Mushabac, Angela Wigan; Fordham University Press, 1999

Subjects:

New York (N.Y.)--History--Chronology, New York (N.Y.)--History--Pictorial Works

Collections: History, Entire Library

...come Fordham University. 1840s The circus comes to town, one of many entertainments...when Washington Irv- ings Knickerbocker History of New York is pub- lished with new...most violent urban rioting in national history. One hun- dred twenty-five people die...
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Impartial Stranger: History and Intertextuality in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Book by Peter Cosgrove; University of Delaware Press, 1999

Subjects:

Byzantine Empire--Historiography, Gibbon, Edward--1737-1794--Criticism And Interpretation, Gibbon, Edward--1737-1794--History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, Historians In Literature, Intertextuality, Literature And History, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D--Historiography

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Impartial Stranger Impartial Stranger History and Intertextuality in Gibbons Decline...Cosgrove, Peter, 1945- Impartial stranger : history and intertextuality in Gibbons Decline...interpretation. 2. Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794. History of the decline and fall of the Roman...

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The Circus and Victorian Society

Journal article by Hugh Cunningham; Journal of Social History, Vol. 40, 2007

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Circus and Victorian Society (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...2005, xiii plus 237pp.). The history of circus has been written largely in celebratory...be puzzled by her division of circus history into four periods, 1768 (when...90 initiated a new moment in circus history may retain some validity. Assael...
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Sequins under the Big Top: Women in the Australian Circus

Journal article by John Ramsland; Journal of Australian Studies, 1997

Subjects:

Circus performers--Conduct of life, Circus--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...image of a typical circus matriarch. By 1953, the Ashton family had been in the circus business for 118 years and could boast five generations of sawdust ring history. Their press releases proclaim the Ashtons to be Australias oldest, best known...
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Bradley, Patricia L. Robert Penn Warren's Circus Aesthetic and the Southern Renaissance

Journal article by Robert W. Rudnicki; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 58, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Robert Penn Warren's Circus Aesthetic and the Southern Renaissance (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...has artistic, social, and political implications because the circus of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s had reversed its role as cultural...of concepts she references from narrative theory, cultural history, and literary criticism might be discouraging, but Bradley...
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Panopticism in 'Nights at the Circus

Journal article by Joanne M. Gass; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 14, 1994

Subjects:

Carter, Angela--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Nights at the Circus (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Foucault points out in The History of Sexuality, when society...case, the freak show and the circus would be those places of tolerance...Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (New York: Penguin, 1986...5)Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, trans. Robert...
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Narrative "Confidence Games": Framing the Blonde Spectacle in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1925) and Nights at the Circus (1984)

Journal article by Laurie J.C. Cella; Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 25, 2004

Subjects:

Carter, Angela--Criticism and interpretation, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Loos, Anita--Criticism and interpretation, Monroe, Marilyn, Nights At The Circus (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Parker, Dorothy, Russell, Jane

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...objectification of women within the modern media circus: "Fevvers may be the avatar of the 1890s...constant narrative control of her own life history, as well as the way she constructs the...key details and presents Walser with a history she has constructed herself. However...

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A Circus with Soul

Magazine article by Kevin Chappell; Ebony, Vol. 52, December 1996

Subjects:

African American entertainers--Performances, Circus--Production and direction, Walker, Cedric--Production and direction

Collections: Entire Library

...legwork--mostly spent learning circus history, developing the concept for the...number of Black performers in circus history. Cirque du Soul, as it is affectionately...like a Whos Who in Black U.S. circus history. Theres the King Charles Troupe...
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Circus of the Black Stars: African American-Owned Circus Has Scheduled Six Cities in 1995 Tour

Magazine article by Joyce Jones; Black Enterprise, Vol. 25, July 1995

Subjects:

African American business enterprises--Management, Circus owners--Management, Circus--Management, Universal Big Top Circus--Management, Walker, Cedric--Management

Collections: Entire Library

...them." But starting Universal Big Top was no small undertaking. Walker spent more than a year researching the history of the circus. He also traveled throughout the U.S. and to Trinidad looking for African Americans with strong circus experience...
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Cirque and Mirrors: How Has the French-Canadian Circus Altered the Face of Las Vegas?

Magazine article by Randy Gener; American Theatre, Vol. 23, November 2006

Subjects:

Circus--Influence, Circuses--Influence, Cirque du Soleil--Influence

Collections: Entire Library

...urban renaissance to him. As the official history of the Cirque acknowledges, Dragone had...had to merge his cerebral stylings to a circus format, as it is for Cirque, who had to...first auteur to literally subsume the circus elements within a clear narrative. One...
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Jazz-Religious and Circus : If Not Exactly a Golden Age, the Seventies Was a Time of Remarkable Artistic Ferment

Magazine article by Francis Davis; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, February 2000

Subjects:

Braxton, Anthony--Influence, Coltrane, John--Influence, Jazz music--1970s (Decade) AD, Jazz--1970s (Decade) AD

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...starting point-a part of jazz history subject to revision and elaboration...other winner was a midwestern circus march-authentic three- ring...listening to jazz, a lengthy history, available through recordings...Davis ("Jazz-Religious and Circus") is a contributing editor...
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Join the "Bellobration": This Year's Circus Truly Is a Clown's Delight

Magazine article by Wayne M. Barrett; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 135, May 2007

Subjects:

Acrobats--Appreciation, Acrobats--Performances, Claudio, Demetrius Alexandro--Appreciation, Claudio, Demetrius Alexandro--Performances

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...first time in the 137-year history of Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey Circus that a production has been...seventh-generation member of a Swiss circus dynasty) views his role in...teaching him nearly every circus skill and apparatus. Actually...

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Lawyer Runs Away with Circus Ex-DuPage Prosecutor Returns to Wheaton

Newspaper article by Susan Stevens; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 21, 2004

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

...caravans who came to town, growing to know many of the performers. As a lawyer, Dolci spent his free time researching circus history and traveling to shows. He once took a month off to travel with a circus through Alaska. Then in 1998, with six dogs...
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Should Wild Animals Be in a Circus?

Newspaper article by Jennifer Johnson, David Harding; Sunday Mirror (London, England), February 21, 1999

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

...making animals suffer. We can no longer argue that zoos and circuses educate us about wild animals natural behaviour because they...environment. We can learn about these animals by watching natural history programmes where they are in their natural habitat and not...
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PETA Members to Protest Kelly Miller Circus Acts

Newspaper article by Susan Dibble; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 16, 2004

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

...Theyre losing their punch," he said. This is the ninth year Naper Settlement has hosted a circus. Jody Ellyne, marketing manager for the 19th century history village, said the settlement has encountered limited controversy about the circus. The...
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Life Is a Circus for Musician

Newspaper article by Christine Montgomery; The Washington Times, April 3, 1997

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

...after another ever since. The circus travels nonstop 11 months of the year, which is a treat to this history buff who enjoys exploring new...meet someone who works with the circus?" In addition to history and travel, Mr. Zlatich is...
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New Year TV Guide: Circus Comes to Town

Newspaper article; Birmingham Evening Mail (England), December 30, 2004

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

...30pm) celebrates two decades of magical circus shows from the touring company. The...family-friendly special will look at the history of the group of young street artists from...St-Croix. They wanted to create a brand new circus; a dramatic mix of street entertainment...

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Circus

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...rebuilt by Julius Caesar, was reported by Pliny in his Natural History to have a capacity of 250,000, though this figure is suspiciously large. Other famous circi of Rome were the Circus Flaminius (221 b.c.); the Circus Neronis, of Caligula and...
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Rome , City, Italy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...Esquiline. South of the Palatine was the Circus Maximus, where the famous chariot races...Martian Field were Pompeys theater, the Circus Flaminius, the Pantheon (see under pantheon...Agrippa and Nero. Across the Tiber was Neros circus, where St. Peters now stands; Hadrians...
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Theodora

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...about her early career comes from the often-questionable source, the Secret History of Procopius . It appears that she was the daughter of an animal trainer in the circus, and that she was an actress and prostitute before her marriage (523) to...
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Bridgeport

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...more affluent residents fled to the suburbs. The Barnum Institute of Science and History commemorates showman P. T. Barnum , who lived in Bridgeport and whose circus wintered there. The Univ. of Bridgeport is in the city...
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Horse Racing

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...the chariot race became an entertainment for the masses; the Circus Maximus seated over 200,000 spectators. The constant and widespread...off-track betting (OTB). Bibliography See R. Longrigg, The History of Horse Racing (1972); T. Ainslie, Ainslies Complete Guide...

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