Between France and Germany: René Schickele and “Geistiges Elsässertum” by Áine McGillicuddy

“…Schickele’s bicultural heritage and the turbulent times he lived through when Alsace was annexed to the Second German Empire, before returning to live under French rule after the traumatic experience of World War I, had a deep and lasting influence on him. …”
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Pink Stockings, Yellow Stockings: the Use of Pink-Yellow in Marston and Shakespeare by Anita BUTLER

“…Marston’s use of pink colour in extant drama of the period presents a curious incident in chromatic history: other dramatists do not use it until the mid 17th century. …”
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La història en present, històries del present: una aproximació a la dramatúrgia mallorquina contemporània by Aymeric Rollet

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Corps mécanique et pensée-mouvement : les marionnettes animales de la Handspring Puppet Company by Noémie Lorentz

“…Exposed mechanisms, artificial life, animated objects: this paper aims to question the specificity of the medium at the heart of two performances: The chimp project (2000) and War Horse (2007). What does the staging of puppets entail regarding the question of porosity between the animal and the human? …”
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Commerce and Sentiment in Tales of Barbary Encounter: Cathcart, Barlow, Markoe, Tyler, and Rowson by Andrew S. Gross

“…A number of American sailors were taken hostage by Barbary Corsairs and held as slaves in North Africa in the years following the Revolutionary War.  The crisis would ultimately lead to open warfare, but many Americans were optimistic that international commerce and common sympathy might overcome religious differences.  …”
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Biographie et autobiographie dans le Livre du Courtisan de Baldassare Castiglione by Guillaume Alonge

“…The concrete case from which the reflection develops is that of the generation of the Courtisan, the generation of those men, aristocrats and gentlemen of Italy at the beginning of the Sixteenth Century who were confronted with the dramas of the Italian wars and the collapse of the small states of the peninsula. …”
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Violence et vision : The Dynasts de Thomas Hardy by Laurence Estanove

“…The Dynasts, Thomas Hardy’s « epic-drama of the war with Napoleon, » is remarkable in its use of poetic and literary stage directions. …”
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Une promise pour la licorne : quand Denis Johnston crève l’horizon de la scène irlandaise by Virginie Girel-Pietka

“…Examining the way Johnston turned his back on the Aristotelian tradition so as to usher Modernism onto the stage, this paper aims at showing that the play was rather meant to open up new aesthetic prospects for the Irish drama of its time. In the wake of World War I and the worldwide Great Depression, mimesis was out of fashion. …”
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Shakespeare en prison : le cas d’Avignon by Florence March

“…It will first deal with the decisive encounter of Shakespeare’s drama with prison in Avignon’s Papal Palace in 1947 – an encounter that acts as a catalyst for the festival’s ethos and aesthetics. …”
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Felix Aderca – scriitorul sub vremuri by Mihaela Iancu

“…Aderca was well known by the inter-war Romanian readers especially for his articles and polemics published in some of the most important newspapers, magazines and reviews of the age. …”
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Kościół na drodze ku „Nostra Aetate”.Zarys relacji chrześcijańsko-żydowskich w XX w. przed II wojną światową by Andrzej Tulej

“…The historical context were the Russian revolutions, World War I, the fascist movements. The Church's statements intensified when, at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s, the National Socialist Party grew stronger, taking over power in Germany in 1933, leading to the tragedy of World War II and the drama of the Holocaust (Heb. …”
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"The Tube is Flickering Now": Aesthetics of Authenticity in Good Night, and Good Luck by Sina Nitzsche

“…Its unusual visual style (cinematography, mise-en-scène, etc.) enables an immediate aesthetic viewing experience of Cold War America. Drawing on Fluck's discussion about aesthetics and its socio-cultural function, the "docu-drama" (Doherty 53), while referring to the era of McCarthyism, serves as an instance of articulation for the dissatisfaction with contemporary American politics.…”
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Pierre Miremont (1901-1979) : un félibre oublié du félibrige ? by Cecile Noilhan

“…Half of them were written in the prisoner of war camps.…”
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Histoire, mémoire et tribus ou les aarch de 2001 en Kabylie by Nassim Amrouche

“…The riots that have bloodstained Kabylie in the spring of 2001 have raised different problematics. Beyond the human drama which has resulted in more than a hundred deaths and a thousand wounded, this contestation formulated itself around an anachronic organization: the aarch. …”
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The Impossibility of Representing the Sacrifice of Abraham and Isaac in Barnett Newman’s Painting by Hoványi Márton

“…In the course of theology and comparative literature and cultural studies interpretations, the visualization of the drama of Abraham and Isaac gradually emerges, deconstructing again and again the approaches that seemed to be predictable before. …”
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Affective Amazement. At the World, People and Literature. Interpretation of the "Prolegomena do wszelkich nauk hermetycznych" by Michał Choromański by Daniel Natkaniec

“…Descriptions of this impulse, of course, often appear in scientific dissertations devoted to novels, drama or poetry, but most of them rarely go beyond the scheme of laconic, casual generalizations. …”
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Non-Fiction from a Historical Perspective: Situation of Lithuanian Statemen Amid Tragic Events of 1940–1941 by Юрате Ландсберґіте-Бехер

“… Non-fiction literature has become the crucial historical drama of the present, with its power to change the fate of the state and its interpretations. …”
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Un document: Deziluziile mele în Rusia by Emma Goldman, Cristina Deutsch

“…From her works, we mention: Anarchism and Other Essays (1911), The Social Significance of Modern Drama (1914), Living My Life (first volume–1931, second volume – 1933), My Disillusionment in Russia (1922), My Further Disillusionment in Russia (1924).…”
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Gli otia di un giurista filologo: il Philargyrus di Andrea Alciato by Antonio Nogara

“…The unpublished Latin comedy Philargyrus, written by Andrea Alciato (1492-1550) between 1523-1527, is a remarkable work in the field of humanistic drama in Latin, regarding the historical period of the Duchy of Milan during the Wars in Italy between France and Spain in the first thirty years of 15th century. …”
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La gran Semíramis de Cristóbal de Virués : une méditation humaniste de l’histoire by Mercedes Blanco

“…The few incidents of the drama that do not arise from the ancient legend suggst a political interpretation : the Macchiavellian prince is the corollary of a state which tends to an unlimited expansion and therefore to world empire. …”
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