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Author : Al Alvarez
Release : 2002-01-01
Genre : Suicide
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Book Rating : 058/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Savage God by : Al Alvarez
Download or read book The Savage God written by Al Alvarez. This book was released on 2002-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'To write about suicide . to transform the subject into something beautiful - this is the foreboding task that Alvarez set for himself . he has succeeded.' The New York Times
Author : Paul Kingsnorth
Release : 2019-09-17
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 86X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Savage Gods by : Paul Kingsnorth
Download or read book Savage Gods written by Paul Kingsnorth. This book was released on 2019-09-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Chicago Tribune "Fall literary preview: books you need to read now" * Vulture "The Best and Biggest Books to Read This Fall" * The Guardian "A best book of 2019" After moving with his wife and two children to a smallholding in Ireland, Paul Kingsnorth expects to find contentment. It is the goal he has sought — to nest, to find home — after years of rootlessness as an environmental activist and author. Instead he finds that his tools as a writer are failing him, calling into question his foundational beliefs about language and setting him at odds with culture itself. Informed by his experiences with indigenous peoples, the writings of D.H. Lawrence and Annie Dillard, and the day-to-day travails of farming his own land, Savage Gods asks: what does it mean to belong? What sacrifices must be made in order to truly inhabit a life? And can words ever paint the truth of the world — or are they part of the great lie which is killing it?
Author : Ralf Remshardt
Release : 2016-08-16
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 782/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Staging the Savage God by : Ralf Remshardt
Download or read book Staging the Savage God written by Ralf Remshardt. This book was released on 2016-08-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this broadly conceived study, Ralf Remshardt delineates the theatre’s deep connection with the grotesque and traces the historically extensive and theoretically intensive relationship between performance and its “other,” the grotesque. Staging the Savage God: The Grotesque in Performance examines the aesthetic complicity shared by the two in both art and theatre and presents a general theory of the grotesque. Performing the grotesque is both a challenge to a culture’s order and the affirmation of certain ethical principles that it recognizes as its own. Remshardt investigates the aesthetics and ideology of grotesque theatre from antiquity—in works such as The Bacchae and Thyestes—to modernity—in Ubu Roi and Hamletmachine—and opens up new critical possibilities for the analysis of both classical and avant-gardetheatre. Divided into three sections, Staging the Savage God first interrogates the grotesque as primarily a visual artistic and theatrical mode and then inventories various critical approaches to the grotesque, establishing the outlines of a theory with regard to drama. In the most extensive part of the study, Remshardt shifts his emphasis to the theatre of the grotesque, from self-consuming tragedies and the modernist trope of the artificial human figure to the characterology of the grotesque. Remshardt’s conclusion takes bold steps toward unraveling the paradox inherent in the grotesque theatre. Written in an engaging style and aided by nine illustrations, Staging the Savage God is a comprehensive and rigorous study that incorporates critical approaches from disciplines such as philosophy, psychoanalysis, art history, literature, and theatre to fully investigate the historical function of the grotesque in performance.
Author : Robert Charles Zaehner
Release : 1975
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Our Savage God by : Robert Charles Zaehner
Download or read book Our Savage God written by Robert Charles Zaehner. This book was released on 1975. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Alvarez
Release : 1996
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 342/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Night by : Alfred Alvarez
Download or read book Night written by Alfred Alvarez. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a powerfully written book, the author of The Savage God examines night in all its aspects. From the neon-lit brilliance of Las Vegas to the shadowy underworld patrolled by the police to a scientific sleep laboratory, Alvarez shows how "night horrors" inspired and terrified Coleridge, how dreams liberated the minds of Stevenson and the Surrealists, and how his own childhood fears provided a gateway to the secret world of the unconscious. Illustrations.
