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...Clarence Gohdes The Interchange of Plays between London and New York, 1910-1939: A Study in Relative Audience Response . By Boyd Alice Katharine . New York : King’s Crown Press , 1948 . Pp. x , 125 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 320 The South...

...B. R. Jerman Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 DISRAELI S AUDIENCE B. R. Jerman BENJAMIN DISRAELI wrote characteristically to Lady Brad­ ford in 1874, I owe everything to woman. Male society, he explained to the same correspondent, was never much to his taste. I require...

...Marcia Lee Anderson The “Twelfth Night” of Shakespeare’s Audience . By Draper John W. . Stanford, California : Stanford University Press , 1950 . Pp. xiv , 280 . $5.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 552 The South Atlantic Quarterly ideas in the nineteenth...

...Juliet Koss Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Juliet Koss Playing Politics with Estranged and Empathetic Audiences: Bertolt Brecht and Georg Fuchs Bertolt Brecht articulated his theory of Verfrem- dung (a dramatic technique of estrangement or alienation ) in 1936, in response...

... figures in order to reform her audience’s relationship to the past. Hall’s play contemplates the ways we know King in order to call our attention to the civil rights movement as an ongoing endeavor whose past, present, and future continues to be under necessary revision, reexamination, and production...

... of “race-specific, race-free language” while also demonstrating the utility of such language to reach out to audiences of all races. Such prose creates a new division between insider and outsider, a split that Morrison capitalizes on by positioning her readers as spectators to a private correspondence...

... itself so as to engage with the work of key postcolonial theorists, a body of films and artworks appeared that expanded this space, maintaining the integrity of a practice that refuted the distinctions between high and low culture, in terms of aesthetics, and rhetorical address, and audiences. Third, I...

... following the speaker’s talk will be more or less hijacked by audience members who insist upon presenting the speaker as one-sided, as having ignored or misrepresented the Israeli viewpoint, and, therefore, as being in need of correction. While such responses are typically coded as demands for fairness...

... policies, prevent these young people from living in dignity, from choosing where they live, and from being actors of change. The letters they share and the movement they found address an international audience and it to listen to their demands. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 migration...

... is not only the stories the films tell about these historical junctures but also the way they implicate or fail to implicate themselves and their audience in those stories; in other words, the depth of the self-scrutiny they propose and the incisiveness of their diagnosis of the Left. Paying special attention...

... audience (the public) when it is enchanted by the spectacle of revolution. The article attempts to show how, as mass society develops, the revolution shifts from action to spectacle. However, if we view mass society itself as an effect of the revolutionary process of long duration, then freedom, equality...

...—as the subjects of an insurgent universality (Tomba 2019 ). The article explores the international brigades fighting the fascists during the Spanish Civil War, the peasants gathered to affirm the Second Havana Declaration, and the audience that comprised Thomas Sankara's speech in Harlem. The artifacts...

... possibili­ ties, its restlessness, its instability. Self-conscious art achieves at least two important ends: it enables maker and audience to explore the limits of particular forms, and it intermixes the creative with the critical. Film in the United States, where it has had its periods of richest growth...

... public, just as the fiction that we value is only a small portion of fiction as a whole, taking fiction for this purpose to include tele­ vision drama, movies, best-selling novels, stories in mass-circula­ tion magazines, and all the other mimetic arts, whether in language or not. This mass audience...

.... Dmitri Shostakovitch Taking the average audience for major symphony concerts, and speaking personally, I can say that I care no more about them and their reactions than I do about the audience for juke boxes in bars. Charles Wuorinen I There is no single musical term that neatly covers the multiple...

.... Dmitri Shostakovitch Taking the average audience for major symphony concerts, and speaking personally, I can say that I care no more about them and their reactions than I do about the audience for juke boxes in bars. Charles Wuorinen I There is no single musical term that neatly covers the multiple...

... to the fatal thrust. Laertes (myself) had been duly dispatched, and was lying head foremost to the audience. Powrie then made such a rush at Mr. Alexander, that the hilt of the sword coming with tremendous force against the edge of the back of the throne chair, the latter gave way, and tipped up, carrying...

... speak of the gods giving way to unquenchable laughter at the sight of Hephaestus bustling from room to room. That will be against your principles. His distrust seems to be born of an uneasiness in the presence of comedy, a fear of the effect that comedy can have on an audience, even though he...

... convince an audience that it shares some vital involvement in the fates of characters in comic drama.2 An important aspect of those devices may be re- Although best known for his studies of modern drama, especially the plays of Tennessee Williams, Mr. Hurley, director of general studies in English...

... at the University of Chicago exploring the relationship between art, audiences, and the critics who mediate between the two. The eleven papers, which include a keynote speech by Saul Bellow and a final report by William Arrowsmith, were pre­ pared by artists and critics who tried, in Wright Morris words, to tell...