The Leeds Story Cycle

The Leeds Story Cycle
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 66
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ISBN-10 : 9781291874556
ISBN-13 : 1291874550
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis The Leeds Story Cycle by : Daniel Ingram-Brown

It's 5th July 2014 and the world's biggest cycling race is about to depart from Leeds. 22 teams, 198 riders, 2,000 journalists and 4 million people are converging on this Yorkshire city. Among them are Gizmo the dog, with his owner; a woman carrying a tin full of memories; a refugee with a rose in their pocket; a student; a grandad and grandson; and X. For each of them, 5th July will turn out to be a life changing day. Created by community groups from across the city, The Leeds Story Cycle is what you get when you put a group of young people, asylum seekers, students, retired church folk, writers and recovering addicts in the same room and ask them to tell a story about their home town. Working with the groups, this unique collection of stories has been written by author, Chris Nickson; lyricist, Testament; poet and playwright, Rommi Smith; author, Daniel Ingram-Brown, poet, Jane Steele; playwright, Lorna Poustie; and theatre practitioners, Simon Brewis and Lynsey Jones.

Story Circle

Story Circle
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 9781405180597
ISBN-13 : 1405180595
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Story Circle by : John Hartley

Story Circle is the first collection ever devoted to a comprehensive international study of the digital storytelling movement, exploring subjects of central importance on the emergent and ever-shifting digital landscape. Covers consumer-generated content, memory grids, the digital storytelling youth movement, participatory public history, audience reception, videoblogging and microdocumentary Pinpoints who is telling what stories where, on what terms, and what they look and sound like Explores the boundaries of digital storytelling from China and Brazil to Western Europe and Australia

Finding the Way to 'Long Day's Journey Into Night'

Finding the Way to 'Long Day's Journey Into Night'
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Publisher : Anthem Press
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 9781839992506
ISBN-13 : 1839992506
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Finding the Way to 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' by : William Davies King

Eugene O’Neill wrote his most enduring and important plays after he won international acclaim as the first and only American playwright to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936. In the midst of the Great Depression, with his health failing and spirits sunk, he and his third wife, former actress Carlotta Monterey, moved to California to escape the materialism and commercialism of a declining “West,” and they built a new home called Tao House. A reasonably good translation of tao is “the way,” and in this house, which was largely the creation of Carlotta, he found the way to his most famous play, Long Day’s Journey Into Night. As an unusually explicit autobiographical drama, this play returns to 1912, the outset of O’Neill’s writing career, when he confronted tragedy in his family story and found a way to dramatize his mother, father, brother, and himself in a way that has resonated with audiences since its publication and production in 1956. But this book argues that the play originates as much in the moment of its creation, 1939–1941—in the family relationships, the historical circumstances, and the fact that this work would represent a moment of closure of his great career. Key to this heroic story of creation is the intervention of his wife, Carlotta, whose diaries enable a day-to-day observation of how the play was written. She was the driving force behind the design of Tao House, and she managed the rhythms and patterns of life within its architecture. It was her masterpiece, just as Long Day’s Journey was his. This book develops a close reading of their house and marriage and also uses many of O’Neill’s previous plays to illuminate the breakthrough of Long Day’s Journey. This book is the most granular and at the same time the most far-reaching inquiry into how this quintessential play was written (and almost not written) and how it came into the world.

Romancing the Vote

Romancing the Vote
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9780820342894
ISBN-13 : 0820342890
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Romancing the Vote by : Leslie Petty

As the nineteenth century progressed into the twentieth, novels about politically active women became increasingly common. This work examines how the fiction written about the women's rights and related movements contributed to the creation and continued vitality of those movements. It looks at novels as paradigms of feminist activism.

Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories

Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781781381182
ISBN-13 : 1781381186
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories by : Lucy Evans

This book examines the representation of community in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean short stories, focusing on the most recent wave of Anglophone Caribbean short story writers following the genre's revival in the mid-1980s. The first extended study of Caribbean short stories, it presents the phenomenon of interconnected stories as a significant feature of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Anglophone Caribbean literary cultures. Lucy Evans contends that the short story collection and cycle, literary forms regarded by genre theorists as necessarily concerned with representations of community, are particularly appropriate and enabling as a vehicle through which to conceptualise Caribbean communities. The book covers short story collections and cycles by Olive Senior, Earl Lovelace, Kwame Dawes, Alecia Mckenzie, Lawrence Scott, Mark McWatt, Robert Antoni and Dionne Brand, and argues that the form of interconnected stories is a crucial part of these writers' imagining of communities, which may be fractured, plural and fraught with tensions, but which nevertheless hold together. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of community, bringing literary representations of community into dialogue with models of community developed in the field of Caribbean anthropology. The works analysed are set in Trinidad, Jamaica and Guyana, and in several cases the setting extends to the Caribbean diaspora in Europe and North America. Looking in turn at rural, urban, national and global communities, the book draws attention to changing conceptions of community around the turn of the millennium.

Orchestral Song Cycles

Orchestral Song Cycles
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Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781987200263
ISBN-13 : 1987200268
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Orchestral Song Cycles by : Charles Villiers Stanford

Charles Villiers Stanford wrote two cycles of songs for baritone with orchestra and chorus, setting nautical verses by the popular poet Henry Newbolt. From its premiere at the Leeds Musical Festival in October 1904, Songs of the Sea was a great success; Songs of the Fleet followed in 1910 and was transparently modeled on it (even quoting from the earlier work). Both works became very popular among amateur choral societies. Songs of the Sea was published in full score a year after its composition; it now appears in a critical edition for the first time in the present volume, which also includes the first publication of the orchestral version of Songs of the Fleet. Both works demonstrate Stanford’s mastery of orchestral technique and sureness of touch. Newbolt’s texts alternate between heroic and sentimental moods; Stanford responded with music that is dramatic and atmospheric—indeed, with some of the most remarkable textures of his whole oeuvre.

The Chester Mystery Cycle

The Chester Mystery Cycle
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 266
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ISBN-10 : 9781317947424
ISBN-13 : 1317947428
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis The Chester Mystery Cycle by : Kevin J. Harty

First published in 1993. Part of a series on medieval casebooks, this volume six looks at the Chester Mystery Cycle Play manuscripts and comparisons of the York and Chester Cycle. Theologically a product of the Middle Ages, historically a product of the Renaissance, what we today call the Chester Mystery Cycle is a series of twenty-four plays dramatizing the events of salvation history from Creation until Doomsday. One of four surviving English mystery cycles, the Chester Cycle, which originally included a twenty-fifth play of the Assumption surpressed sometime in the mid-sixteenth century, was, until more modern times, last performed in 1575.

Spectacle & Image in Renaissance Europe

Spectacle & Image in Renaissance Europe
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : 9004097740
ISBN-13 : 9789004097742
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Spectacle & Image in Renaissance Europe by : André Lascombes

This collection of nineteen essays focuses on the ways in which, in England, France and Spain, the Renaissance made propagandistic, or aesthetic, use of the image in various spectacles. Under surface differences between genres, what emerges is a surprising similarity in tactics and response, which invites further questioning about image elaboration and its reception.

Spectacle & Image in Renaissance Europe / Spectacle & Image Dans L'Europe de la Renaissance

Spectacle & Image in Renaissance Europe / Spectacle & Image Dans L'Europe de la Renaissance
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 9789004617162
ISBN-13 : 9004617167
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Spectacle & Image in Renaissance Europe / Spectacle & Image Dans L'Europe de la Renaissance by : Andre Lascombes

This collection of nineteen essays focuses on the ways in which, in England, France and Spain, the Renaissance made propagandistic, or aesthetic, use of the image in various spectacles. Under surface differences between genres, what emerges is a surprising similarity in tactics and response, which invites further questioning about image elaboration and its reception.