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  • Beyond Immersive Theatre

    Aesthetics, Politics and Productive Participation

    by Adam Alston ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Immersive theatre currently enjoys ubiquity, popularity and recognition in theatre journalism and scholarship. However, the politics of immersive theatre aesthetics still lacks a substantial critique. Does immersive theatre model a particular kind of politics, or a particular kind of audience? What’s involved in the production and consumption of immersive theatre aesthetics? Is a productive ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Staging Decadence

    Theatre, Performance, and the Ends of Capitalism

    by Adam Alston ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Winner of the 2024 TaPRA David Bradby Monograph PrizeHow is decadence being staged today – as a practice, issue, pejorative, and as a site of pleasure? Where might we find it, why might we look for it, and who is decadence for?This book is the first monographic study of decadence in theatre and performance. Adam Alston makes a passionate case for the contemporary relevance of decadence in the ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Theatre in the Dark

    Shadow, Gloom and Blackout in Contemporary Theatre

    Edited by Adam Alston, Martin Welton ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Engage
    Theatre in the Dark: Shadow, Gloom and Blackout in Contemporary Theatre responds to a rising tide of experimentation in theatre practice that eliminates or obscures light. It brings together leading and emerging practitioners and researchers in a volume dedicated to exploring the phenomenon and showcasing a range of possible critical and theoretical approaches.This book considers the aesthetics ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Decadent Plays: 1890–1930

    Salome; The Race of Leaves; The Orgy: A Dramatic Poem; Madame La Mort; Lilith; Ennoïa: A Triptych; The Black Maskers; La Gioconda; Ardiane and Barbe Bleue or, The Useless Deliverance; Kerria Japonica; The Dove

    by Mr Michael Field, Ms Lesya Ukrainka, Ms Rachilde, Mr Remy de Gourmont, Mr Jean Lorrain, Leonid Andreyev, Ms Djuna Barnes, Mr Izumi Kyoka, Maurice Maeterlinck, Mr Gabriele D'Annunzio ...
    Translated by Ms Vera Rich, Frazer Lively, Ms Kiki Gounaridou, Prof. Dan Rebellato, Ms Jennifer Higgins, Mr Fred Newton Scott, Mr Clarence L Meader, M Cody Poulton, Mr Bernard Miall, Mr Arthur Symons ...
    Poisoned cigars, seductive apparitions, minds and empires in the last of their decline and the most notorious kiss in dramatic history – decadent plays challenged the moral as much as the dramatic imagination of their own day, and continue to probe horizons of taste and the possibilities of stagecraft.In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many writers reacted to urban modernity by embracing ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Musical Landscapes in Color

    Conversations with Black American Composers

    by William C. Banfield, William C. Banfield, Michael Abels, H. Leslie Adams, Lettie Beckon Alston, Thomas J Anderson, Dwight Andrews, Regina Harris Baiocchi, David Baker, Ysaye Maria Barnwell, Billy Childs0, Noel DaCosta1, Anthony Davis2, George Duke3, Leslie Dunner4, Donal Fox5, Adolphus Hailstork6, Jester Hairston7, Herbie Hancock8, Jonathan Holland9, Anthony Kelley0, Wendell Logan1, Bobby McFerrin2, Dorothy Rudd Moore3, Jeffrey Mumford4, Gary Powell Nash5, Stephen Newby6, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson7, Michael Powell8, Patrice Rushen9, George Russell0, Kevin Scott1, Evelyn Simpson-Curenton2, Hale Smith3, Billy Taylor4, Frederick C Tillis5, George Walker6, James Kimo Williams7, Julius Williams8, Tony Williams9, Olly Wilson0, Michael Woods1 ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    Now available in paperback, William C. Banfield’s acclaimed collection of interviews delves into the lives and work of forty-one Black composers. Each of the profiled artists offers a candid self-portrait that explores areas from training and compositional techniques to working in a exclusive canon that has existed for a very long time. At the same time, Banfield draws on sociology, Western ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance

    Edited by Judith Rugg, Michèle Sedgwick ...
    Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance proposes that the concept of curating is a complex field of enquiry. By drawing together artists, curators, architects and cultural theorists, it proposes new approaches to curating and ways of developing critical enquiry about this increasingly expanding field. Focusing on pertinent issues in curating contemporary art and performance, the book's ... Read more

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  • Dante's Inferno

    In Modern English

    by Douglas Neff, Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with modern language adaptation by Douglas Neff ...
    Most English translations of INFERNO are full of colorful, but meaningless language based on today's modern standards. Some translations are so elaborate that they are as difficult to read as the original Italian version. This translation uses the Longfellow translation as a base, but replaces the obscure or antiquated verbiage with the language of Modern English. This translation could easily be ... Read more

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  • Architecture and its Ethical Dilemmas

    Edited by Nicholas Ray ...
    A cast of leading writers and practitioners tackle the ethical questions that architects are increasingly facing in their work, from practical considerations in construction to the wider social context of buildings, their appearance, use and place in the narrative of the environment. This book gives an account of these ethical questions from the perspectives of historical architectural practice, ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • Modern Art

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Cottington ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. This book achieves all this and focuses on interrogating the idea of 'modern' ... Read more

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  • The Inferno

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    Translated by John Ciardi ...
    Belonging in the immortal company of the works of Homer, Virgil, Milton, and Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece is a visionary journey that takes readers through the torment of Hell.The first part of Dante**’**s Divine Comedy is many things: a moving human drama, a supreme expression of the Middle Ages, a glorification of the ways of God, and a magnificent protest against the ways ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Art

    1989 to the Present

    Edited by Alexander Dumbadze, Suzanne Hudson ...
    An engaging account of today’s contemporary art world that features original articles by leading international art historians, critics, curators, and artists, introducing varied perspectives on the most important debates and discussions happening around the world.Features a collection of all-new essays, organized around fourteen specific themes, chosen to reflect the latest debates in contemporary ... Read more

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  • The Divine Comedy

    Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Dante Alighieri, Robin Kirkpatrick ...
    Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    A stunning 3-in-1 deluxe edition of one of the great works of Western literatureAn epic masterpiece and a foundational work of the Western canon, The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as his guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and reunion with his dead love, Beatrice; and, finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire, and enlightenment and ... Read more

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