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Philosophy as Farce, or Farce as Philosophy
Philosophy, 1984Tom Stoppard's Jumpers is a play rich in philosophical material.1 Clearly anyone seeking to understand and evaluate Jumpers has to come to terms with this material, so it seems natural to suppose that philosophers should be at some advantage here.
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Fascism as a Farce of Farce: Totalitarian Propaganda
2021In his study, Kracauer—leaning on the definitions developed by Marx and Trotsky—analyses fascism as a form of Bonapartism; namely: as an atypical bourgeois regime in which the State, placed in the hands of a presumably charismatic leader, acquires relative autonomy such that it provides its services to the ruling classes without appearing to be subject
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French Politics, Culture & Society, 2021
This article explores the appropriation and translation of historical notions of “empire” into the modern era through close examination of the short-lived Central African Empire, imagined and brought to life by the flamboyant Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa.
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This article explores the appropriation and translation of historical notions of “empire” into the modern era through close examination of the short-lived Central African Empire, imagined and brought to life by the flamboyant Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa.
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1985
For this last main chapter I have brought together two further short works which Stoppard created for Inter-Action, Dirty Linen (first performed in 1976) and Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth (first staged in 1979), together with the ‘adaptation’ On the Razzle, which opened at the National Theatre in 1981.
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For this last main chapter I have brought together two further short works which Stoppard created for Inter-Action, Dirty Linen (first performed in 1976) and Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth (first staged in 1979), together with the ‘adaptation’ On the Razzle, which opened at the National Theatre in 1981.
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2005
Clearly, Miss Lowe was not going to be content to leave Del in the Strack household. Until that point Del’s previous employer would have been unaware that she had said anything to anybody, presumably secure in the assumption that she would be too frightened to do so.
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Clearly, Miss Lowe was not going to be content to leave Del in the Strack household. Until that point Del’s previous employer would have been unaware that she had said anything to anybody, presumably secure in the assumption that she would be too frightened to do so.
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1989
Jonathan Culler, in Structuralist Poetics, argues that part of the basis on which we make sense of texts is ‘by the existence of the genre, which the author can write against … (and) which is the context within which his activity takes place’.1 Genre helps to create the contract between reader or spectator and writer, the frame of acceptance which ...
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Jonathan Culler, in Structuralist Poetics, argues that part of the basis on which we make sense of texts is ‘by the existence of the genre, which the author can write against … (and) which is the context within which his activity takes place’.1 Genre helps to create the contract between reader or spectator and writer, the frame of acceptance which ...
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The Tulane Drama Review, 1963
In this issue TDR celebrates Molière the farceur. Lest we seem in this to be claiming credit for original insight, we are also printing the essay which “started the trend“—that is, the trend away from the nineteenth-century view of Molière as a writer of drames and towards a view which recognizes the key role of farce even in Molière's most serious ...
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In this issue TDR celebrates Molière the farceur. Lest we seem in this to be claiming credit for original insight, we are also printing the essay which “started the trend“—that is, the trend away from the nineteenth-century view of Molière as a writer of drames and towards a view which recognizes the key role of farce even in Molière's most serious ...
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This chapter analyses the aftermath of the Emergency and the fragile experiment of the Janata Party. It shows how Indira Gandhi’s defeat stimulates democratic revival through grassroots activism, caste and labor movements, and a revitalized press, while the formal political system falters. The chapter explains Janata’s internal disputes over leadership,
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