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This wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theatre practice, economics, and issues related to identity, politics, and technology contains a snapshot dissection of where theatre is, where it has been and where it might be going.

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Theatre of the Borderlands: Conflict, Violence, and Healing is an enlightening and encompassing study that focuses on how dramatists from the Northern Mexico border territories utilize theater as a means to present the US-Mexico Borderlands in a sociohistorical and political context.

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Theater of the Borderlands: Conflict, Violence, and Healing is an enlightening and encompassing study that focuses on how dramatists from the Northern Mexico border territories utilize theater as a means to present the US-Mexico Borderlands in a sociohistorical and political context.

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This study succinctly views some works of nine black women playwrights, who flourished between 1916 and 1935, and explores--in some detail--some characteristics of selected plays of Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, and Ntozake Shange.

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This unique poetry resource offers interpretations of 250 poems, representing the work of 86 poets from a wide spectrum of historical, contemporary, ethnic, and canonical writers.

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Each chapter cites works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.

Each chapter discusses the biblical significance of the theme, provides scriptural citations and quotations, and relates the theme to frequently read literary works.

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This thematic guide offers interpretations of 415 poems, representing the work of over 110 poets spanning seven centuries of British poetry.

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The uniquely thematic approach of this resource will help teachers and librarians identify pertinent works of modern drama for students, and will enhance readers' understanding of these works.

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Providing access to information on 450 short stories, this guide surveys a wide spectrum of world literature, canonical works and contemporary fiction. It has full annotations, identifies thematic elements and has bibliographic information on the anthologies where the stories can be found.

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This unique resource provides readers with a systematic guide to the central themes in 150 of the most commonly taught American novels.

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Focusing primarily on fiction, this guide provides an overview of the young adult literature. It includes 32 chapters on particular themes of significance to young adults, including Abuse, Sexual Violence, and Healing; Families, Traditional and Redefined; Imagined Futures; Supernatural and Alien Beings: Confronting the Other; and War's Impact.

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This text sets out to illuminate all the central themes of Roman satire. It offers a synchronic assessment of different aspects of the work of Lucilius, Horace, Persius and Juvenal: their aims; their styles; and their views on freedom of speech, class patronage, Greeks and sex.

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A work which discusses Storm's significance and artistic stature as a champion of democratic humanitarian traditions and aspirations in 19th century Germany. It highlights his critique of Christianity, his vision of capitalism and his analysis of class relationships.

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James S. Baumlins Theologies of Language in English Renaissance Literature offers a revisionist history of discourse, taking Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton as its touchstones. Their works mark stages in die Entzauberung or disenchantment, as Max Weber has termed it: that is, in the elimination of magic from the world.

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Theology in the Early British and Irish Gothic, 17641832 reassesses the relationship between contemporary theology and the Gothic. Investigating Gothic aesthetics, depictions of the supernatural and portrayals of religious organisations, it explores how the Gothic engages with contemporary theologies, both Dissenting and Anglican.

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"This theological reading of canonical texts of the 19th-century Gothic posits the religious themes of the Gothic as essential to understanding the form as a whole"--

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"This theological reading of canonical texts of the 19th-century Gothic posits the religious themes of the Gothic as essential to understanding the form as a whole"--

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An analysis that concentrates in particular on problems of genesis and intertextuality, and highlights the thematic continuity of the aspect of Theophile Gautier's work.

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Constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective. This book provides the solution to different intellectual questions from staging any other canonical drama in the form of an interdisciplinary dialogue, inspired by a conference held at the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama.