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The Existential Implications of Ageism: A Comparative Study of Edward Albee’s The Sandbox and Tawfik Al-Hakim’s The Tree Climber [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Al-FayūmThe paper examines the implications of ageism and its relationship to absurdism through the characters in Edward Albee’s The Sandbox (1959) and Tawfik Al-Hakim’s The Tree Climber (1962).
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The Theatre of the Absurd as professional network in Pinter’s early career [PDF]
, 2021 As is well-known, Harold Pinter’s work first gained widespread attention in connection with Martin Esslin’s critical construct ‘the Theatre of the Absurd’; over time this contextualisation was contested, not least by the playwright himself, and gradually
Derbyshire, Henry
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British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract Business schools are often criticized for reproducing growth‐oriented norms, but alternative pedagogies remain difficult to normalize. Drawing on Butler's theory of subversive performativity, this study examines how art‐based pedagogy enables academics to challenge growth logics in business schools by transforming their identities over time ...
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Understanding Existentialism on Stage: The Theatre of the Absurd
, 2022 The Theatre of the Absurd represents one of the many shifts in the art forms of the second half of the 20th century. In a world that was searching for meaning, the Theatre of the Absurd was able to stage the universal situation of humanity in a new light.
Murray, Joshua
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Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2023 Martin Esslin emphasizes that ‘‘instead of being in suspense as to what will happen next, the spectators are, in the Theatre of the Absurd, put into suspense as to what the play may mean.
Nesrin Degirmencioglu
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article studies the post‐1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar‐era success, eventually
Katharina Friege
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Approaching the Absurd: A Physical Theatre-Based Acting Methodology for Theatre of the Absurd
, 2021 https://rdc.reed.edu/v1/resources/5592fa94-e727-4d55-8450-cec31b512fcc/thumb/128.jpgThis thesis explores the theatrical periodization of the Theatre of the Absurd and attempts to establish the foundation for a Physical Theatre-based acting methodology ...
Andrews, Kieran
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Animalization of the human world. Eugène Ionesco, "Rhinoceros"
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2016 The article presents the originality and the timeless meaning of the 1959 Eugène Ionesco play, Rhinoceros which is situated, despite its unambiguous ‘animal’ parable, within the Theatre of the Absurd. In the perspective of the author of the article it is
Anna Wolska
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Collingwood's Everyday Aesthetics
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Any adequate account of aesthetic experience must be able to accommodate the pervasiveness of aesthetic experiences in everyday life. While writers on everyday aesthetics have frequently taken inspiration from John Dewey's Art as Experience, my aim in this article is to show that there is another work in the history of the discipline that ...
Mark Windsor
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