The Editor and the Text
Published on 20. September 1990
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-7486-0154-7 (ISBN)
Description
14 scholars in Old and Middle French language and literature tackle the complex problems of editing medieval French texts in this collection of essays. They discuss such works as "Le Pelerinage de Charlemagne", "Le Bel Inconnu", "Le Roman de Renart" and "La Chanson de Roland".
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Language
English
French
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
378 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-0154-7 (9780748601547)
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Content
Part 1 History and context: terror, the modern state and the dramatic imagination, Daniel Gerould; terrorism as social drama and dramatic form, John Orr; the inverted world of spectacle - social and political responses to terrorism, Aida Hozic; aspects of terrorism in the work of Piscator, Michael Patterson; individual and collectivist models of terror in German expressionism, Lado Dralj. Part 2 Contemporary drama: state terror and dramatic counter-measures, Mary Karen Dahl; utopianism and terror in contemporary drama - the plays of Dusan Jovanovic, Dragan Klaic; politics and terror in the plays of Howard Brenton, Richard Boon; images of terrorism in contemporary British drama, David Ian Rabey; the bomb in the baby carriage - women and terrorism in contemporary drama, Suzanne Greenhalgh.