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Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre
Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre is a lively and accessible biographical guide to the key figures in contemporary drama. All who enjoy the theatre will find their pleasure enhanced and their knowledge extended by this fascinating work of reference. Its distinctive blend of information, analysis and anecdote makes for entertaining and enlightening reading. Hugely influential innovators, household names, and a whole host of less familiar, international figures - all have their lives and careers illuminated by the clear and succinct entries. All professions associated with the theatre are represented here - actors and directors, playwrights and designers. By virtue of the broad range of its coverage, Who's Who in Contemporary World Theatre offers a unique insight into the rich diversity of international drama today.
Mediterranean Pilot
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A Journey Round My Room
In 1790, Xavier de Maistre was 27 years old, and a soldier in the army of the Sardinian Kingdom, which covered swathes of modern-day Northern Italy and Southern France. He was placed under house-arrest in Turin for fighting an illegal duel. It was during the 42 days of his confinement here that he wrote the manuscript that would become Voyage autour de ma chambre. Inspired by the works of Laurence Sterne, with their digressive and colloquial style, de Maistre decided to make the most of his sentence by recording an exploration of the room as a travel journal. de Maistre’s book imbues the tour of his chamber with great mythology and grand scale. As he wanders the few steps that it takes to circumnavigate the space, his mind spins off into the ether. It parodies the travel journals of the eighteenth-century (such as A Voyage Around the World by Louis de Bougainville, 1771), and could be read today as an early take on the modern vogue for “psychogeography” — each tiny thing that he encounters sends de Maistre into rhapsodies, and mundane journeys become magnificent voyages.
Coasts of the Mediterranean Sea
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
La figlia segreta del Reich
Ispirato a una storia vera Da quando suo marito Josef è entrato a far parte della Resistenza, Anna Dankova fa il possibile per tenere al sicuro la figlia Ema, capelli biondi come miele e occhi azzurri come il cielo di Praga. Si dice infatti che i nazisti siano in cerca di bambini nati in Cecoslovacchia per rapirli e crescerli come fossero ariani discendenti del Reich, ed Ema ha tutte le carte in regola per sembrare una vera bambina tedesca. Un giorno, mentre è al mercato con lei, Ema le viene strappata dalle mani dalle Sorelle Brune, infermiere dedite alla causa di Hitler. All’improvviso, quella leggenda terribile è diventata realtà. Anna non ha un attimo di esitazione, e si lancia all...
Dizionario Etimologico della Lingua Siciliana
“Mandrini”, cosa significa? e “pogghia”? Dove si trova Polizzi Generosa? Perché si chiama così? Quali le sue attrazioni? E ancora, qual è il suono della “dd cacuminale” siciliana? La leggenda di Calapisci o la vera storia della “Barunissa” di Carini? Nelle 1820 pagine di questo libro, una Enciclopedia più che un Dizionario, si trovano le risposte, i fatti storici, i lemmi e i vocaboli tradotti in italiano, con dotte spiegazioni sulle loro origini. Moltissimi, se non tutti, i luoghi, i paesi, le città, i monumenti e gli scavi archeologici descritti, rappresentati da 700 immagini a colori. E ancora le filastrocche, molte poesie, le ricette culinarie, con l’elenco degli ingredienti e le istruzioni per la preparazione. Un’opera non solo per i siciliani che desiderano una esauriente raccolta della propria cultura, ma anche per chi, da fuori, vuole saperne di più o si appresta a fare un viaggio nell’isola più affascinante del mondo.
Across Genres, Generations and Borders
This book examines the processes involved in writing the lives of women, both as autobiographies and as biographies. Some essays are theoretical discussions about the constructions of self-articulation in women's life writing. Others are more autobiographical, emphasizing the importance of self-articulation for creating possibilities for self-direction. Adopting different theoretical approaches, chapters in this collection highlight the connections between subjectivity and history, feminist concerns about mothering and the mother-daughter relationships, autobiography, discourse and its framing of the relationship between text and life, and the ethics of constructing biographies. The book is divided into three parts: the first part focuses on the process of writing lives as expressed but also contested in epistolary narratives, autobiography and historical fiction. The second part considers notions of female genealogy and the relationship with the maternal, both biological and symbolic. The third part comprises articles which deal with writing outside geographical and metaphorical borders.
