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Festivalising!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Festivalising!

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

Throughout the world festivals are growing - in numbers, in size, in significance - and serve as spaces where aesthetic encounters, religious and political celebrations, economic investments and public entertainment can take place. In this sense, festivals are theatrical events. Exploration of the theoretical frames of reference for the discussion about the present festival culture. Survey of 14 festival events throughout the world.

Doing Double Dutch
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 339

Doing Double Dutch

The importance of a minor language in the field of world literature Dutch literature is increasingly understood as a network of texts and poetics connected to other languages and literatures through translations and adaptations. In this book, a team of international researchers explores how Dutch literary texts cross linguistic, historical, geophysical, political, religious, and disciplinary borders, and reflects on a wide range of methods for studying these myriad border crossings. As a result, this volume provides insight into the international dissemination of Dutch literature and the position of a smaller, less-translated language within the field of world literature. The title Doing Dou...

Sublime Historical Experience
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 510

Sublime Historical Experience

Why are we interested in history at all? Why do we feel the need to distinguish between past and present? This book investigates how the notion of sublime historical experience complicates and challenges existing conceptions of language, truth, and knowledge.

The Art of Commedia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 626

The Art of Commedia

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

Italian comedians attracted audiences to performances at every level, from the magnificent Italian, German and French court festival appearances of Orlando di Lasso or Isabella Andreini, to the humble street trestle lazzi of anonymous quacks. The characters they inspired continue to exercise a profound cultural influence, and an understanding of the commedia dell'arte and its visual record is fundamental for scholars of post-1550 European drama, literature, art and music. The 340 plates presented here are considered in the light of the rise and spread of commedia stock types, and especially Harlequin, Zanni and the actresses. Intensively researched in public and private collections in Oxford...

Approaches and Methods in Event Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 230

Approaches and Methods in Event Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-05-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The recent proliferation of events as a subject of study in its own right has signalled the emergence of a new field – event studies. However, whilst the management-inspired notion of planned events, which strives for conceptual slenderness, may indeed be useful for event managers, the moment we attempt to advance knowledge about events as social, cultural and political phenomena, we realise the extent to which the field is theoretically impoverished. Event studies, it is argued, must transcend overt business-like perspectives in order to grasp events in their complexities. This book challenges the reader to reach beyond the established modes of thinking about events by placing them agains...

1894: European Theatre in Turmoil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 149

1894: European Theatre in Turmoil

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-12-14
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  • Publisher: BRILL

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Humanistica Lovaniensia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 460

Humanistica Lovaniensia

Volume 46

Sovereignty as Inviolability
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Sovereignty as Inviolability

Sovereignty was a key issue in the baroque, and especially in the Dutch Republic with its incredibly complicated political organisation. Consequently, sovereignty was explored in and through Joost van den Vondel'S theatre plays. Vondel sensed a fundamental problem in the construction of Europe'S politico-cultural 'House'. The questions he asked with respect to that construction concerned the relationship between theology and politics, including in terms of gender and culture. Because these questions could barely be considered explicitly, let alone actually discussed, they had to be presented through literature theatre. A close reading of a number of plays reveals not only a pivotal discussion that concerns Vondel'S own times, but also an on-going struggle in the European exploration of sovereignty. In that context, power and potency a distinction made by Spinoza determine the status of sovereignty that any body can acquire.

Brussels 1900 Vienna
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 469

Brussels 1900 Vienna

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-11-29
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Brussels 1900 Vienna examines the complex cultural networks between Austria and Belgium (1880-1930), and situates these interrelations within a wider European context. The collection covers various fields, including literature, translation, music, theatre, visual arts, café culture, and architecture.

Rembrandt's Reading
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Rembrandt's Reading

  • Categories: Art

Though Rembrandt's study of the Bible has long been recognized, his interest in secular literature has been relatively neglected. In this volume, Amy Golahny uses a 1656 inventory to reconstruct Rembrandt's library, discovering anew how his reading of history contributed to his creative process. In the end, Golahny places Rembrandt in the learned vernacular culture of seventeenth-century Holland, painting a picture of a pragmatic reader whose attention to historical texts strengthened his rivalry with Rubens for visual drama and narrative erudition.