Shakespeare’s hamlet in an era of textual exhaustion
27 Nov 2017-
TL;DR: Shakespeare's Hamlet in an Era of Textual Exhaustion examines how postmodern audiences continue to reengage with Hamlet, in spite of our culture's oversaturation with this most canonical of texts as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Shakespeare’s Hamlet in an Era of Textual Exhaustion examines how postmodern audiences continue to reengage with Hamlet in spite of our culture’s oversaturation with this most canonical of texts. Combining adaptation theory and performance theory with examinations of avantgarde performances and other unconventional appropriations of Shakespeare’s play, this volume examines Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a central symbol of our era’s “textual exhaustion,” a state in which the reader/ viewer is bombarded by text—printed, digital, and otherwise.
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Abstract: Where you can find the death in literature easily? Is it in the book store? On-line book store? are you sure? Keep in mind that you will find the book in this site. This book is very referred for you because it gives not only the experience but also lesson. The lessons are very valuable to serve for you, that's not about who are reading this death in literature book. It is about this book that will give wellness for all people from many societies.
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01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: In this paper, an essai revient sur le processus de creation d'une forme courte sise entre le theâtre, le cirque contemporain and l'installation sonore, Hamlet sur le fil.
Abstract: Cet essai revient sur le processus de creation d’une forme courte sise entre le theâtre, le cirque contemporain et l’installation sonore, Hamlet sur le fil. L’adaptation de la piece-monument du repertoire occidental en contexte circassien a revele a son auteur a quel point le brouillage des roles et des ecritures allait reposer sur les tensions entre texte, textualites et textures. Ce flou ontologique aura permis la creation d’une oeuvre hybride reposant a la fois sur le geste assume du desequilibre acrobatique et sur un soliloque canonique compose d’acrobaties intellectuelles face a la recherche d’un equilibre. Il aura egalement permis d’envisager la figure d’Hamlet en funambule et en chercheur-createur. L’essai offre un regard intime sur les processus de traduction, d’adaptation et de transposition d’une figure, d’un geste impossible et d’une parole canonique ayant pour caracteristique de mettre en scene le doute et la valse-hesitation devant la prise de risque redemptrice.
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TL;DR: This paper reframed Shakespeare's plays within a newly conceptualized historical category that posits a cultural divide between premodernity and the Enlightenment, and refocused discussion around key and enduring themes of mortality.
Abstract: This volume is the first collection of essays ever to view Shakespeare’s plays from the prospect of the premodern death arts, not only the ars moriendi tradition but also the plurality of cultural expressions of memento mori, funereal rituals, commemorative activities, and rhetorical techniques and strategies fundamental to the performance of the work of dying, death, and the dead. The volume is divided into two sections: first, critically nuanced examinations of Shakespeare’s corpus and then, second, of Hamlet exclusively as the ultimate proving ground of the death arts in practice. This book revitalizes discussion around key and enduring themes of mortality by reframing Shakespeare’s plays within a newly conceptualized historical category that posits a cultural divide—at once epistemological and phenomenological—between premodernity and the Enlightenment.
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01 Jan 1966
TL;DR: Sontag's Against Interpretation and Other Essays as discussed by the authors is a collection of essays written by Sontag, discussing the intersection between high and low art forms and giving them equal value as valid topics.
Abstract: A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the definitive collection of Susan Sontag's best known and important works published in Penguin Modern Classics. Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to give them equal value as valid topics, shown here in her epoch-making pieces 'Notes on Camp' and 'Against Interpretation'. Here too are impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis and contemporary religious thought. Originally published in 1966, this collection has never gone out of print and has been a major influence on generations of readers, and the field of cultural criticism, ever since. Susan Sontag (1933-2004) was born in Manhattan and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. She is the author of four novels - The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover and In America, which won the 2000 US National Book Award for fiction - a collection of stories, several plays, and six books of essays, among them Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. If you enjoyed Against Interpretation and Other Essays, you might like Sontag's On Photography, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'A dazzling intellectual performance' Vogue 'Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites' The Times
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01 Jan 1994
TL;DR: Birkerts as mentioned in this paper argues that we are living in a state of intellectual emergency caused by our willingness to embrace new technologies at the expense of the printed word and argues that the printed page and the circuit-driven information technologies represent fundamentally opposed forces, and in their inevitable confrontation our deepest values will be tested.
Abstract: Discussing in personal and cultural terms the values of reading, and examining what may be lost as society turns towards CD-ROM, hypertext and audio books, the critic Sven Birkerts, whose essays and reviews have appeared in "The New York Times Book Review", "The Atlantic" and "Harper's", offers a defence of the place of reading and the printed word in the face of rapid technological advances. He argues that we are living in a state of intellectual emergency - an emergency caused by our willingness to embrace new technologies at the expense of the printed word. As we rush to get on-line, as we make the transition from book to screen, we are turning against some of the core premises of humanization. The printed page and the circuit-driven information technologies are not related - for Birkerts they represent fundamentally opposed forces, and in their inevitable confrontation our deepest values will be tested.
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28 Nov 1985
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an arrangement of essays and occaisonal lectures, some previously published, most not, most on matters literary, some not, accumulated over 30 years or so of writing, teaching and teaching writing.
Abstract: This nonfiction work is what Barth callls "an arrangement of essays and occaisonal lectures, some previously published, most not, most on matters literary, some not, accumulated over 30 years or so of writing, teaching and teaching writing". Barth speculates on the future of literature and the literature of the future. He looks back too upon historical fiction and fictitous history.
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TL;DR: This book is very referred for you because it gives not only the experience but also lesson, that's not about who are reading this death in literature book, but about this book that will give wellness for all people from many societies.
Abstract: Where you can find the death in literature easily? Is it in the book store? On-line book store? are you sure? Keep in mind that you will find the book in this site. This book is very referred for you because it gives not only the experience but also lesson. The lessons are very valuable to serve for you, that's not about who are reading this death in literature book. It is about this book that will give wellness for all people from many societies.
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