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| 1. |  | Title: Staged narrative: poetics and the messenger in Greek tragedy Author: Barrett, James 1953- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language Publisher's Description: The messenger who reports important action that has occurred offstage is a familiar inhabitant of Greek tragedy. A messenger informs us about the death of Jocasta and the blinding of Oedipus, the madness of Heracles, the slaughter of Aigisthos, and the death of Hippolytus, among other important even . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Tragedy and enlightenment: Athenian political thought, and the dilemmas of modernity  Author: Rocco, Christopher 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Classical History | Classical Literature and Language | Social and Political Thought | Social Theory Publisher's Description: Weaving together ancient Greek texts and postmodernist theory, Christopher Rocco addresses the debate between modernity and postmodernity that dominates contemporary theory. Interpreting Greek drama within a critical framework informed by contemporary theorists Foucault, Habermas, Horkheimer and Ado . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Revenge in Attic and later tragedy Author: Burnett, Anne Pippin 1925- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Modern readings of ancient Athenian drama tend to view it as a presentation of social or moral problems, as if ancient drama showed the same realism seen on the present-day stage. Such views are belied by the plays themselves, in which supremely violent actions occur in a legendary time and place di . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Modern drama and the rhetoric of theater Author: Worthen, William B 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Theatre | Rhetoric Publisher's Description: The history of drama is typically viewed as a series of inert "styles." Tracing British and American stage drama from the 1880s onward, W. B. Worthen instead sees drama as the interplay of text, stage production, and audience.How are audiences manipulated? What makes drama meaningful? Worthen identi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Revealing masks: exotic influences and ritualized performance in modernist music theater Author: Sheppard, William Anthony 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Music | American Music | Contemporary Music | Ethnomusicology | Opera | Musicology | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: W. Anthony Sheppard considers a wide-ranging constellation of important musical works in this fascinating exploration of ritualized performance in twentieth-century music. Revealing Masks uncovers the range of political, didactic, and aesthetic intents that inspired the creators of modernist music t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Music drama at the Paris Odéon, 1824-1828 Author: Everist, Mark Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Opera | French Studies | European History Publisher's Description: Parisian theatrical, artistic, social, and political life comes alive in Mark Everist's impressive institutional history of the Paris Odéon, an opera house that flourished during the Bourbon Restoration. Everist traces the complete arc of the Odéon's short but highly successful life from ascent to t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: The tragedy of Mariam, the fair queen of Jewry Author: Cary, Elizabeth, Lady 1585 or 6-1639 Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Renaissance Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original play by a woman to be published in England, and its author is the first English woman writer to be memorialized in a biography, which is included with this edition of the play. Mariam is a distinctive example of Renaissance drama that serves the des . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Popular theater and society in Tsarist Russia Author: Swift, Eugene Anthony Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Popular Culture | European Literature | European Studies Publisher's Description: This is the most comprehensive study available of the popular theater that developed during the last decades of tsarist Russia. Swift examines the origins and significance of the new "people's theaters" that were created for the lower classes in St. Petersburg and Moscow between 1861 and 1917. His e . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Hellenistic philosophy of mind Author: Annas, Julia Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Classics | Social and Political Thought | Intellectual History | Classical Philosophy | Philosophy | Rhetoric Publisher's Description: Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind is an elegant survey of Stoic and Epicurean ideas about the soul - an introduction to two ancient schools whose belief in the soul's physicality offer compelling parallels to modern approaches in the philosophy of mind. Annas incorporates recent thinking on Hellenistic . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Prayers in stone: Greek architectural sculpture ca. 600-100 B.C.E Author: Ridgway, Brunilde Sismondo 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Art | Art and Architecture | Art History Publisher's Description: The meaning of architectural sculpture is essential to our understanding of ancient Greek culture. The embellishment of buildings was common for the ancient Greeks, and often provocative. Some ornamental sculpture was placed where, when the building was finished, no mortal eye could view it. And unl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: The making of fornication: eros, ethics, and political reform in Greek philosophy and early Christianity Author: Gaca, Kathy L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical Philosophy | Classical Religions | Classical Politics | Christianity | Ethics | Social and Political Thought | Ancient History | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: This provocative work provides a radical reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in Western society since late antiquity. While many scholars, including Michel Foucault, have found the basis of early Christian sexual restrictions in Greek et . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Cleomedes' lectures on astronomy: a translation of The heavens Author: Cleomedes Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Classics | Science | Astronomy | History of Science | Classical Philosophy Publisher's Description: At some time around 200 A.D., the Stoic philosopher and teacher Cleomedes delivered a set of lectures on elementary astronomy as part of a complete introduction to Stoicism for his students. The result was The Heavens (Caelestia), the only work by a professional Stoic teacher to survive intact from . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Interstate arbitrations in the Greek world, 337-90 B.C. Author: Ager, Sheila L 1956- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Classics | Classical History | Ancient History Publisher's Description: A great deal of information has come to light over the past several decades about the role of arbitration between the Greek states. Arbitration and mediation were, in fact, central institutions in Hellenistic public life. In this comprehensive study, Sheila Ager brings together the scattered body of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: Early Greek law Author: Gagarin, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Classics | Classical Politics | Law Publisher's Description: Drawing on the evidence of anthropology as well as ancient literature and inscriptions, Gagarin examines the emergence of law in Greece from the 8th through the 6th centuries B.C., that is, from the oral culture of Homer and Hesiod to the written enactment of codes of law in most major cities. Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Grounds for play: the Nauṭaṅkī theatre of North India Author: Hansen, Kathryn Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: The nautanki performances of northern India entertain their audiences with often ribald and profane stories. Rooted in the peasant society of pre-modern India, this theater vibrates with lively dancing, pulsating drumbeats, and full-throated singing. In Grounds for Play , Kathryn Hansen draws on fie . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Ceremonial costumes of the Pueblo Indians: their evolution, fabrication, and significance in the prayer drama Author: Roediger, Virginia More Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Dance | Art Publisher's Description: When the University of California Press first published Roediger's Ceremonial Costumes of the Pueblo Indians in 1941, it was immediately hailed as both a beautiful book and the most comprehensive description ever of the making and meaning of the Pueblo costumes of New Mexico and Arizona. It has been . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: Catullan provocations: lyric poetry and the drama of position Author: Fitzgerald, William 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Classics | Comparative Literature | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry Publisher's Description: Restoring to Catullus a provocative power that familiarity has tended to dim, this book argues that Catullus challenges us to think about the nature of lyric in new ways. Fitzgerald shows how Catullus's poetry reflects the conditions of its own consumption as it explores the terms and possibilities . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Politics and theater: the crisis of legitimacy in restoration France, 1815-1830 Author: Kroen, Sheryl 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies Publisher's Description: Moliére's anticlerical comedy Tartuffe is the unique prism through which Sheryl Kroen views postrevolutionary France in the years of the Restoration. Following the lead of the French men and women who turned to this play in the 1820s to make sense of their world, Kroen exposes the crisis of legitima . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: The other Greeks: the family farm and the agrarian roots of western civilization Author: Hanson, Victor Davis Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | European History Publisher's Description: For generations, scholars have focused on the rise of the Greek city-state and its brilliant cosmopolitan culture as the ultimate source of the Western tradition in literature, philosophy, and politics. This passionate book leads us outside the city walls to the countryside, where the vast majority . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus Author: Theocritus Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry Publisher's Description: Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century B.C.E., Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. Theocritus's poem in praise of Philadelphus - at once a Greek king and an Egyptian pharaoh - is the only extended poetic tribute to this . . . [more] Similar Items |