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      • Crimson Dragon Publishing

        Crimson Dragon Publishing carries books that encourage readers of all ages by sparking the imagination. While we focus on the fantasy and science fiction genres, we also carry illustrated books for young readers that focus on social-emotional skills development and fictionalized non-fiction.

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      • Editorial Drakul, S.L.

        Editorial Drakul is an independent, privately owned company, founded in June 2006 and dedicated mainly to the publication of novels and comics, but also children's literature.

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        The Arts
        June 2017

        Popular television drama

        Critical perspectives

        by Jonathan Bignell, Stephen Lacey

        Popular television drama: critical perspectives' is a collection of essays examining landmark programmes of the last forty years, from 'Doctor Who' to 'The Office', and from 'The Demon Headmaster' to 'Queer As Folk'. Contributions from prominent academics focus on the full range of popular genres, from sitcoms to science fiction, gothic horror and children's drama, and challenge received wisdom by reconsidering how British television drama can be analysed. Each section is preceded by an introduction in which the editors discuss how the essays address existing problems in the field and also suggest new directions for study. The book is split into three sections, addressing the enduring appeal of popular genres, the notion of 'quality' in television drama, and analysing a range of programmes past and present. Popular television drama: critical perspectives will be of interest to students and researchers in many academic disciplines that study television drama. Its breadth and focus on popular programmes will also appeal to those interested in the shows themselves.

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        February 2011

        Schriften zum Drama

        by Ivan Nagel

        Regisseure, Autoren, Schauspieler. »Wie diese drei miteinander auskommen: die Beziehung zwischen Autor, Regisseur, Schauspieler ist unvermeidlich eine Frage auch der Theorie, nicht nur der herstellenden Praxis«, so Ivan Nagel. Große Aufführungen erweisen sich oft als die tiefsten und überraschendsten Deutungen berühmter »klassischer« Dramen. Die Schriften zum Drama versammeln Ivan Nagels beste Essays und bieten damit einen gelungenen Überblick über das Theaterschaffen in den letzten Jahrzehnten. Nagel nähert sich essayistisch und exemplarisch Dramatikern und Inszenierungen. Er analysiert scharfsinnig Shakespeares "Troilus und Cressida", "Antonius und Cleopatra", "Timon von Athen" in ihrer Beziehung auf Krieg und Frieden, Ost und West, Reichtum und Armut – und er stellt ihnen epochemachende Aufführungen gegenüber wie Fritz Kortners legendäre Inszenierung von "Emilia Galotti" 1970 in Wien, wie Peter Steins Inszenierung von "Torquato Tasso" 1969 in Bremen, die das deutschsprachige Theater nachhaltig verändert haben. Er porträtiert große Autoren wie Elfriede Jelinek und Heiner Müller. Nagel, der seit vielen Jahren aufs Engste mit dem Theater verbunden ist als Kritiker, Dramaturg, Intendant zeigt sich in diesen Texten einmal mehr als großer Kenner und leidenschaftlicher Theatermann.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2023

        Pasts at play

        Childhood encounters with history in British culture, 1750–1914

        by Rachel Bryant Davies, Barbara Gribling

        This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children's Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children's culture and the uses of the past. It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters during the long nineteenth-century (1750-1914), a critical period in children's culture. Boys and girls across social classes often experienced different pasts simultaneously, for purposes of amusement and instruction. The book highlights an active and shifting market in history for children, and reveals how children were actively involved in consuming and repackaging the past: from playing with historically themed toys and games to performing in plays and pageants. Each chapter reconstructs encounters across different media, uncovering the cultural work done by particular pasts and exposing the key role of playfulness in the British historical imagination.

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        October 2009

        Gemälde und Drama

        Giotto Masaccio Leonardo

        by Ivan Nagel

        Über Jahrhunderte, von 1300 bis 1800, war die Leitgattung der europäischen Malerei das Historiengemälde. Götter, Helden, Menschen aus heidnischer, jüdischer, christlicher Sage wurden ins Bild geholt. Ivan Nagel zeigt den Aufstieg des neuen Historienbildes von 1300 bis 1500. In einem weit verbreiteten Vorurteil sah man Giottos, Masaccios und Leonardos Werke als »erzählende Bilder«. Ivan Nagel zeigt indessen, daß sie ihr präsentisches Aufleuchten einer Handlung nicht mit dem Epos oder dem Roman teilen, sondern mit dem Drama, das sie, lange vor dem Theater, erneuern. Der Autor zeigt, wie Giotto und Dante gemeinsam die Kunst als sichtbares Sprechen, »visibile parlare«, als Dialog der Gesten, Mienen und Blicke entdecken; wie Giotto seinen lebenslangen Helden Franz von Assis erst als aufrührerischen Lebensreformer, dann als kanonisierten Wundertäter, schließlich als modernen Menschen autonomer Entschlüsse in diesen Bilddialogen spiegelt. Eine weitere Untersuchung gilt der (bislang oft ignorierten) Freundschaft zwischen Masaccio und Alberti. In neuem Licht erscheint »Filippos Kreis«, drei Bund unverheirateter Männer um den wegweisenden Baumeister Brunelleschi, zu dem außer Masaccio und Alberti der Bildhauer Donatello gehörte. Der Kreis wird in den homoerotischen Sitten von Florenz verortet. Sein neuer Blick ermöglichte eine Renaissance des in Freiheit handelnden Männerkörpers, Liebe des Menschen zum Menschen, behielt unterdessen die Entrechtung der Frau als Schandfleck. Zum Abschluß deutet Ivan Nagel die maßgebenden Bilder der Neuen Historie: Giottos "Navicella", Masaccios "Zinsgroschen" und Leonardos »Abendmahl«.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2020

        Play time

        by Daisy Black, David Matthews, Anke Bernau, James Paz

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        September 2020

        Pasts at play

        by Rachel Bryant Davies, Barbara Gribling, Anna Barton

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2001

        Drama + threory

        Critical approaches

        by Peter Buse

        Energetically places modern British drama and contemporary critical and cultural theory in dialogue, demonstrating how theory allows fresh insights into familiar plays. Each chapter pairs a well-known play from the post-war period with a classic theory text, the theoretical text is not simply applied to the dramatic one: instead, the play and the theoretical text reflect on each other in a mutual illumination. Examples include: So Look Back in Anger is read by and reads Lacan's Signification of the Phallus Pinter's The Homecoming is made uncanny with Freud Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead finds affinities with Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good agrees and disagrees with Edward Said Sarah Kane's Blasted thinks through trauma with Shoshana Felman. In each case, the theoretical position is explained lucidly and economically. The result is a series of new interpretations not only of the plays, but of the theoretical texts, which take on new relevance when linked with modern British drama. The first textbook of its kind, linking contemporary drama with critical and cultural theory. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2022

        Chartist drama

        by Gregory Vargo

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2023

        Leaving the field

        by Robin James Smith, Sara Delamont

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        February 2008

        Drama, Baby, Drama!

        Wie Sie werden, was Sie sind

        by Darnell, Bruce / Illustriert von Ditting, Frauke

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        March 1991

        Studienausgabe der Vorlesungen in 5 Bänden

        Band 4: Das lyrische Drama des Fin de siècle

        by Peter Szondi, Henriette Beese

        Szondis Vorlesung aus dem Wintersemester 1965/66 setzt die Analyse jener Krise des Dramas fort, der schon sein erstes Buch über die Theorie des modernen Dramas gewidmet war. Sie behandelt vor allem die Hérodiade von Mallarmé und die Kleinen Dramen des jungen Hofmannsthal. Bei aller Verschiedenartigkeit der Gegenstände, die unterschiedliche Gesichtspunkte verlangen, sind den Untersuchungen viele Perspektiven gemeinsam: der Blick auf die Entstehungsgeschichte, auf den Zusammenhang zwischen Lyrik und lyrischer Dramatik, auf die Dialektik von Scheitern und Gelingen, auf die lyrische und dramatische Selbstreflexion der Werke. Der Band enthält außer dem Text der Vorlesung einige Materialien zu ihr sowie den Text von Szondis erster Vorlesung (aus dem Jahre 1955) über Rilkes Duineser Elegien.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2021

        Passing into the present

        Contemporary American fiction of racial and gender passing

        by Sinead Moynihan

        This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. The book accounts for the return of tropes of passing in fiction by Phillip Roth, Percival Everett, Louise Erdrich, Danzy Senna, Jeffrey Eugenides and Paul Beatty, by arguing meta-critical and meta-fictional tool. These writers are attracted to the trope of passing because passing narratives have always foregrounded the notion of textuality in relation to the (il)legibility of "black" subjects passing as white. The central argument of this book, then, is that contemporary narratives of passing are concerned with articulating and unpacking an analogy between passing and authorship. The title promises to inaugurate dialogue on the relationships between passing, postmodernism and authorship in contemporary American fiction.

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        January 2010

        Drama Princess

        Topmodel - um jeden Preis?

        by Blobel, Brigitte

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        December 1994

        Drama Kultur.

        Teil 1: Abhandlungen zur Kulturtheorie; Teil 2: Urkulturen - Institutionen heute - Kulturpolitik.

        by Lipp, Wolfgang

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        Biography & True Stories
        November 2024

        Walking in the dark

        James Baldwin, my father and I

        by Douglas Field

        A moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism. Since James Baldwin's death in 1987, his writing - including The Fire Next Time, one of the manifestoes of the Civil Rights Movement, and Giovanni's Room, a pioneering work of gay fiction - has only grown in relevance. Douglas Field was introduced to Baldwin's essays and novels by his father, who witnessed the writer's debate with William F. Buckley at Cambridge University in 1965. In Walking in the dark, he embarks on a journey to unravel his life-long fascination and to understand why Baldwin continues to enthral us decades after his death. Tracing Baldwin's footsteps in France, the US and Switzerland, and digging into archives, Field paints an intimate portrait of the writer's life and influence. At the same time, he offers a poignant account of coming to terms with his father's Alzheimer's disease. Interweaving Baldwin's writings on family, illness, memory and place, Walking in the dark is an eloquent testament to the enduring power of great literature to illuminate our paths.

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        October 1973

        Asiatisches Drama

        Eine Untersuchung über die Armut der Nationen. Eine Studie des Twentieth Century Fund in der Kurzfassung von Seth S. King. Aus dem Englischen von Nils Lindquist

        by Gunnar Myrdal, Nils Thomas Lindquist, M. J. Rossant

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