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  • Beckett's Creatures

    Art of Failure after the Holocaust

    by Joseph Anderton ...
    In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing that strives to 'fail better'. But what might it mean to be a 'creature' or 'creaturely' in Beckett's world? In the first full-length study of the concept of the creature in Beckett's prose and drama, this book traces the suspended lives and melancholic existences ... Read more

    $51.49 CAD

  • Screening the Nonhuman

    Representations of Animal Others in the Media

    by Amber E. George, Joseph Anderton, Michael Atkinson, Fernando Pagnoni Berns, Christina Victoria Cedillo, Stella Hockenhull, Anja Höing, am Husemann, Fiona Yuk-wa Law, Matthew Lerberg0, César Marino1, Guilherme Nothen2, Sean Parson3, Jennifer Polish4, Carter Soles5, J.L. Schatz7 ...
    Series series Critical Animal Studies and Theory
    Screening the Nonhuman draws connections between how animals represented on screen translate into reality. In doing so, the book demonstrates that consuming media is not a neutral act but rather a political one. The images humans consume have real world consequences for how animals are treated as actors, as pets, and in nature. The contributors propose that altering the representations of animals ... Read more

    $54.69 CAD

  • Modernism and the Anthropocene

    Material Ecologies of Twentieth-Century Literature

    by Joseph Anderton, Emily Chester, Stuart Christie, Julia Daniel, Ted Howell, Jessica Martell, Robert Savino Oventile, Michael Sloane, Charles Tung, Timothy Wientzen, Glenn Willmott, Joshua Schuster ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane to still-emergent genres like comics and speculative fiction, this volume tackles a series of related questions regarding how best to understand humanity’s increasing domination of the natural world. ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

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  • Dorothy Parker: Complete Broadway, 1918–1923

    by Dorothy Parker ...
    Dorothy Parker holds a place in history as one of New Yorks most beloved writers. Now, for the first time in nearly a century, the public is invited to enjoy Mrs. Parkers sharp wit and biting commentary on the Jazz Age hits and flops in this first-ever published collection of her groundbreaking Broadway reviews.Starting when she was twenty-four at Vanity Fair as New Yorks only female theatre ... Read more

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  • Stage Directions

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    by Michael Frayn ...
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  • The Theatre of David Greig

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  • On Beckett

    Essays and Criticism

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  • Sharon Pollock

    First Woman of Canadian Theatre

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    As playwright, actor, director, teacher, mentor, theatre administrator, and critic, Sharon Pollock has played an integral role in the shaping of Canada's national theatre tradition, and she continues to produce new works and to contribute to Canadian theatre as passionately as she has done over the past fifty years. Pollock is nationally and internationally respected for her work and support of ... Read more

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