Literary Criticism
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When Life Gives You Risk, Make Risk Theatre
Three Tragedies and Six Essays by Edwin Wong, Gabriel Jason Dean and Nicholas Dunn & Emily McClain
Creators, Innovators, and Theatremakers: Defy the Smallness of the Stage With the Greatness of Your Daring Wong’s first book upended tragic literary theory by arguing that risk is the dramatic fulcrum of the action. It also launched an ...
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The Time Machine and the Domaine
Origins and Functions of Imaginative Literature by Richard W. Bevis
Why have so many cultures created what we call imaginative literature in the past, and still do? What prompts so many people to read literature? And how are we to understand the economy that links these producers and consumers? These and related ...
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The Poetry
by Chris Stafford
This book was written about Chris Stafford’s thoughts with a hand from God. Chris’ family was involved with the reading of this book and thought it would be nice to be published so others could read it.
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A Parade of Dreams
Poetry Illustrated with Photographs by Christopher Wheeler
A Parade of Dreams: Poetry Illustrated with Photographs is a collection of poetry divided by form into ten parts. The work is a lifelong dream made possible through the surplus of “free time” enforced as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. It ...
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A Bloody Song
How Anime and Literature Collide by Caroline Kerjean
Growing up in a fractious household in working-class Brooklyn, my mother dreamt of living in France, of experiencing “civilization.” As for myself, molded by the gloomy obsessions of the adults around me, I sought refuge as a child in a Japanese ...
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What Is Shakespeare?
by Ted van Griethuysen
At the heart of this book written by the renowned American actor, Ted van Griethuysen, is a fundamental idea: Shakespeare is only what he says and how he says it. How he says it, of course, is poetry, and what poetry is, why we need it, is central ...
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The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy
Gambling, Drama, and the Unexpected by Edwin Wong
WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, BIRNAM WOOD COMES TO DUNSINANE HILL The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial ...
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Transformational Images
by Adeleri Onisegun
Transformational Images is replete with messages of hope and the possibilities for life’s marvelous changes. Dr. Adeleri Onisegun was inspired by observations of dynamic personal growth, community challenges, and changing yet unwavering family ...
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Mars Greening
by Mark A. Benvenuto
Human colonies have been established on Mars, after the first manned mission inadvertently began to terraform it. Young Tony Rust, a geosurveyor in the New Europa colony, has made a curious discovery, which at first glance seems to be of little ...
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Unpredictable Observations
by William S. Dazey
Within these pages are the trail markings of a leader finding himself and uncovering his wisdom. You may hear the fine voice whisper as you read, sharing kindness with your spirit, and music with your temple.