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Theatre Semiotics provides a thorough argument for the place and the necessity of semiotics within the interpretive process of theatre.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the11th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2013, held in Madrid, Spain, in September 2013. The 21 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. They are organized in topical section on real-time systems, verification, types and inference, static analysis, testing and runtime verification, and synthesis and transformation.
This collection explores and clarifies two of the most contested ideas in literary theory - influence and intertextuality. The study of influence tends to centre on major authors and canonical works, identifying prior documents as sources or contexts for a given author. Intertextuality, on the other hand, is a concept unconcerned with authors as individuals; it treats all texts as part of a network of discourse that includes culture, history and social practices as well as other literary works. In thirteen essays drawing on the entire spectrum of English and American literary history, this volume considers the relationship between these two terms across the whole range of their usage.
Even before the biblical canon became fixed, writers have revisited and reworked its stories. The author of Joshua takes the haphazard settlement of Israel recorded in the Book of Judges and retells it as an orderly military conquest. The writer of Chronicles expurgates the David cycle in Samuel I and II, offering an upright and virtuous king devoid of baser instincts. This literary phenomenon is not contained to inner-biblical exegesis. Once the telling becomes known, the retellings begin: through the New Testament, rabbinic midrash, medieval mystery plays, medieval and Renaissance poetry, nineteenth century novels, and contemporary literature, writers of the Western world have continued to...
A BOOK BY GREG HENRY WATERS THE DEATH OF A MUSICIAN “A Composer of Art Music and the Dark Age of Music” by Greg Henry Waters Mark Twain, said, "to do something that no one else did is the real joy of life." This is what I am trying to do. We have to create a real culture not let the McDonald culture take over. I like gentleness in music. We need gentleness in the world not force. God is gentle. If music be the voice of God it should be gentle. This book is dedicated to al the people whom have participated in my life! Special Thanks to Steve Devitt and Kirsten Borg for thinking the book is important! Also to my two most important teachers, Bianca Rogge and Alfred Schmielewski! (Yogi Narayana)
A collection of essays, stories, poems, plays and novels representing the breadth of Chicano/a literature from 1965 to 1995. The anthology highlights major themes of identity, feminism, revisionism, homoeroticism, and internationalism, the political foundations of writers such as Gloria Anzaldua, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Luis Valdes, Gary Soto, and Sergio Elizondo. The selections are offered in Spanish, English, and Spanglish text without translation and feature annotations of colloquial and regional uses of Spanish. Lacks an index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR