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The Sounds of Paris in Verdi's La Traviata
Emilio Sala uses rare documents and images to re-examine Verdi's La traviata in the cultural context of mid-nineteenth-century Paris.
Stutter
In a book that explores the phenomenon of stuttering from its practical and physical aspects to its historical profile to its existential implications, Shell, who has himself struggled with stuttering all his life, plumbs the depths of this murky region between will and flesh, intention and expression, idea and word. Looking into the difficulties encountered by people who stutter--as do fifty million world-wide--Shell shows that stutterers share a kinship with many other speakers, both impeded and fluent. This book takes us back to a time when stuttering was believed to be 'diagnosis-induced, ' then on to the complex mix of physical and psychological causes that were later discovered. Ranging from cartoon characters like Porky Pig to cultural icons like Marilyn Monroe, from Moses to Hamlet, Shell reveals how stuttering in literature plays a role in the formation of tone, narrative progression and character.--From publisher description.
Homosexuality in French History and Culture
Deconstruct changing representations of homosexuality with this important new work of cultural criticism! Homosexuality in French History and Culture explores episodes, patterns, and images of same-sex attraction in France from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, from the essays of Michel de Montaigne to pride parades in contemporary Paris. This groundbreaking book documents the ways homosexuality has been named, experienced, regulated, understood, and imagined. During these centuries, homosexuality has been stigmatized as a sin, crime, or disease, and denounced as a threat to social order and national identity. Yet the rhetoric of condemnation has always co-existed with the reality o...
The Omnibus
The introduction of omnibus services in the late 1820s revolutionised urban life in Paris, London and many other cities. As the first form of mass transportation—in principle, they were ‘for everyone’—they offered large swaths of the population new ways of seeing both the urban space and one another. This study examines how the omnibus gave rise to a vast body of cultural representations that probed the unique social experience of urban transit. These representations took many forms—from stories, plays and poems to songs, caricatures and paintings—and include works by many well-known artists and authors such as Picasso and Pissarro and Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Guy de Maupassant. Analysing this corpus, the book explores how the omnibus and horse-drawn tram functioned in the cultural imagination of the nineteenth century and looks at the types of stories and values that were projected upon them. The study is comparative in approach and considers issues of gender, class and politics, as well as genre and narrative technique.
Theatrical Costume, Masks, Make-Up and Wigs
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Stavovské divadlo 1824-1862, I. a II. svazek
Publikace navazuje na dvoudílnou monografii Prozatímní divadlo 1862–1883 (Academia – Národní divadlo, Praha 2006). Za použití stejné metodologie do podrobností mapuje českojazyčný repertoár pražského Stavovského divadla od roku 1824, kdy se začal utvářet profesionální český soubor, do vzniku Prozatímního divadla v roce 1862. Z cedulí jako prvořadého a unikátního pramene výzkum vycházel, jejich informace byly však ověřovány a doplňovány na základě studia dalších pramenů, dobového tisku a literatury. Využití specializované databáze Elektronický divadelní archiv umožnilo sestavení nejen soupisu inscenací a představení, ale i přehledu činnosti tvůrců, inscenátorů i interpretů Stavovského divadla v uvedeném období.
