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• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Introduction
• Writings and Speeches by and about Ben Fletcher
• 1 Soapboxer
• 2 On the Importance of the IWW Press
• 3 The Seventh Convention of the IWW
• 4 Philadelphia Organizing
• 5 The Strike at Little Falls
• 6 The Eighth Convention of the IWW
• 7 War on the Waterfront
• 8 Solidarity Wins in Philadelphia
• 9 Free Ford and Suhr!
• 10 Transport Workers Strike in Philadelphia
• 11 Philadelphia Strike Ends
• 12 The Struggle in Baltimore
• 13 IWW Growing in Baltimore

• 14 Providence MTW
• 15 Boston Organizing
• 16 Federal Investigation of Fletcher Begins
• 17 A Bad Man or Gun Fighter
• 18 The Rebel Girl Remembers
• 19 Fletcher Indicted
• 20 Fletcher Investigation Continues
• 21 Fletcher and Cape Verdeans
• 22 The Search for Fletcher Continues
• 23 The Chase Is On
• 24 Fletcher Arrested (Finally)
• 25 Fletcher on Trial
• 26 Fletcher and Haywood Cutting It Up
• 27 Fletcher Sentenced
• 28 Fletcher Holding Court
• 29 We Won't Forget
• 30 Fletcher in Forma Pauperis
• 31 Du Bois on Fletcher and the IWW
• 32 The Messenger on Ben Fletcher

• 33 Fletcher's Prison Letters
• 34 Fletcher's Black Radical Networks
• 35 Fletcher Reflects on Past and Future
• 36 Fletcher Out on Bond-Still Troublemaking
• 37 The Price of Progress
• 38 The Abolition Movement of the Twentieth Century
• 39 Organizing the Atlantic Coast
• 40 On the Baltimore Waterfront
• 41 Fletcher's Sterling Honesty and Humor
• 42 Solving the Race Problem
• 43 The Forum of Local 8
• 44 The Task of Local 8
• 45 Advice from a Black, Radical Friend
• 46 A Miscarriage of Justice
• 47 Feds Oppose Releasing Fletcher
• 48 A Call to Solidarity

• 49 Free the Local 8 Four!
• 50 Feds Can't Figure Out Why They Imprisoned Fletcher
• 51 Why Should These Men Be Released?
• 52 Free at Last!
• 53 Longshoremen Fighting for Life
• 54 Philadelphia's Waterfront Unions
• 55 The Negro and Organized Labor
• 56 Solidarity-Black & White
• 57 Fletcher Speaks in Philadelphia
• 58 Fletcher Won't Give Up the Waterfront
• 59 Communist Praises Wobbly
• 60 Defy the Blacklist
• 61 Speaking Tour
• 62 Hello, Detroit
• 63 Speaking to Finnish Workers in Canada
• 64 Fletcher Visits Work People's College
• 65 Fifteen Hundred Have Listened, Spellbound

• 66 Claude McKay on Local 8
• 67 Fletcher Thrills Crowd in Philadelphia
• 68 Industrial Unionism & Black Workers
• 69 The IWW & Negro Wage Workers
• 70 Race Consciousness
• 71 Heartache
• 72 A Thousand Join in One Day!
• 73 Fletcher Recalls Nearly Being Lynched
• 74 Cuts to the Bone of Capitalist Pretension
• 75 Fletcher Knows Which Side He's On
• 76 IWW Attempts a Comeback
• 77 A Communist Cynically Exploits Fletcher's Story
• 78 Fletcher Corresponds with Anarchist Archivist
• 79 The IWW Celebrates Fletcher's Life
• 80 Fletcher's Obituary in the New York Times

• Volume 1 Eternal Ifs: Infant, Boy, and Man (1819-1840) 0
• Introduction
• 5347
• 1 Manhattan and Albany (1819-1832) 0
• Chap 1 Last Leaves, New Leaf 5085
• Chap 2 Commerce and Providence 3248
• Chap 3 Home and Street 6921
• Chap 4 Awakenings 6487
• Chap 5 The Secret of Our Paternity 7042
• Chap 6 Marriage of New England and New York 2647
• Chap 7 Recuperations 2588
• Chap 8 School Boy and Reader 4694
• Chap 9 The Birth of Ishmael 3166
• 2 Growing up Gansevoort (1832-1836) 0
• Chap 10 Patriarch and Hero 4153
• Chap 11 Gansevoort and the Indians
• 3373
• Chap 12 Broken Temple
• 4576
• Chap 13 Jackson and the Negro
• 2706
• Chap 14 Albany and Africa 4625
• Chap 15 Black Gansevoort 3092
• Chap 16 Mourning and Arousal 4922
• Chap 17 Summer of Plague 5104
• Chap 18 Spoils and Debt 1811
• Chap 19 Working Boy: Steam & Temptation 4525
• Chap 20 Moving Up 3433
• 3 Sibling Coterie (1836) 0
• Chap 21 Brother Gansevoort 6562
• Chap 22 Happiness and Power 4568
• Chap 23 Sister Helen 4116
• *Chap 24 Emancipated School Girl 7423
• Chap 25 Sister Augusta 6307
• Chap 26 Dark-eyed Darling 5368
• Chap 27 Composing Yourself 4830
• 4 Inland Identities:
• Farmer, Teacher, Debater, Lover, Writer (1836-1839) 0
• *Chap 28 "Deep Inland There I" 4327
• Chap 29 Uncle Thomas 5732
• Chap 30 Schoolmaster 6065
• Chap 31 Debater and Cosmopolite 8335
• Chap 32 Lansingburgh: River Banks & Bankruptcy 2911
• Chap 33 The Intimacy of Reading 6206
• Chap 34 Occasional Writting & Reading 5813
• *Chap 35 Love is then our Duty 6862
• Chap 36 Published Writer 4784
• 5 The Imperative of Travel (1839) 0
• Chap 37 On the Go Off 4607
• Chap 38 Circumambulating Manhattan 3617
• Chap 39 Heading Out to Sea 2892
• Chap 40 Brotherhood of Outcasts 4860
• Chap 41 Secret Sympathy 3448
• 6 First Voyage (1839) 0
• Chap 42 Along the Marge 1941
• Chap 43 His First Crew 3472
• Chap 44 Learning the Ropes 4414
• Chap 45 No School Like a Ship
• for Studying Human Nature 4512
• Chap 46 Irish Sea and Liverpool 5461
• 7 Liverpool and Back (1839-1840) 0
• Chap 47 The Liverpool of His Father 5458
• Chap 48 Roscoe and the Picture of Liverpool 6584
• Chap 49 What Melville Saw in Liverpool 4035
• Chap 50 The Moment of Liverpool 4460
• Chap 51 Home Again: Teacher Again 5005
• Chap 52 Rent 5153
• Chap 53 Maria's Boys 7029
• Volume 2 Melville at Sea (1840-1846)
• 8 Out West (1840) 0
• Chap 54 On the Road 3253
• Chap 55 On the Canal 3653
• Chap 56 Up in Michigan 2303
• Chap 57 Chicago and Galena 2670
• Chap 58 Versions of Prairie 2731
• Chap 59 The Falls of St. Anthony 1464
• Chap 60 Lonely Watcher 3168
• Chap 61 Rivers and Scars 6134
• 9 The Atlantic (1841) 0
• Chap 62 Four Weeks' Residence in Manhattan 4139
• Chap 63 Mean Streets 5723
• Chap 64 New Bedford 4669
• Chap 65 Ready for Sea 3842
• Chap 66 Ship and Space 6203
• Chap 67 First Lowering 6155
• Chap 68 Unimaginable Accidents 4642
• Chap 69 Tornadoed Atlantic of My Being 5235
• 10 The Pacific (1841-1842) 0
• Chap 70 My Dear Pacific 4568
• Chap 71 Work and Love 5237
• Chap 72 This Thing of the Essex 6500
• Chap 73 Forecastle Conversation 6267
• Chap 74 Lover of the Picturesque
• 3791
• Chap 75 Versions of Picturesque
• 2772
• 11 The Marquesas (1842) 0
• Chap 76 Nuku Hiva 5488
• Chap 77 Jumping Ship 6280
• Chap 78 Island Masculinities 5918
• Chap 79 Taipi and Typee
• 6187
• Chap 80 Escaping Paradise 6413
• 12 Tahiti, Eimeo, Hawai'i (1842-1843) 0
• Chap 81 Good and Faithful Seaman 4839
• Chap 82 Reluctant Mutineer 4490
• Chap 83 Resistance and Vulnerability 4323
• Chap 84 Comic Consciousness 5039
• Chap 85 Tahiti As Is 5916
• Chap 86 Cosmopolitan Polynesia 4629
• Chap 87 Not Until Honolulu Was I Aware 5633
• Chap 88 Colonial Consciousness 4412
• 13 In the Navy (1843-1844) 0
• Chap 89 Herman Melville O. S. 6074
• Chap 90 Ordinary Seamen 5030
• Chap 91 Miracle of Art 4840
• Chap 92 Tearless in Lima 3259
• Chap 93 Humiliation and Riot 5137
• Chap 94 Theater of War 4752
• 14 Sailor Come Home (1844-1845) 0
• Chap 95 Beloved Brother 8027
• Chap 96 Tableaux Vivants 7189
• Chap 97 First Unfoldings 5811
• 15 Writing Typee (1845-1846) 0
• Chap 98 Tinker, Alter, Erupt 4982
• Chap 99 The Language of My Companion 6225
• Chap 100 Translating Taipi 5358
• Chap 101 Melville in Eruption 5192
• Chap 102 Smuggling Verbalist 4450
• 16 Practiced Writer (1846) 0
• Chap 103 Brothers Together 7857
• Chap 104 Broken Sword 4900
• Total
• 253761
• vol. 1
• 256702
• vol. 2 253761.
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A comprehensive exploration of Melville's formative years, providing a new biographical foundation for today's generations of Melville readers Herman Melville: A Half Known Life, Volumes 1 and 2, follows Herman Melville's life from early childhood to his astonishing emergence as a bestselling novelist with the publication of Typee in 1846. These volumes comprise the first half of a comprehensive biography on Melville, grounded in archival research, new scholarship, and incisive critical readings. Author John Bryant, a distinguished Melville scholar, editor, critic, and educator, traces the events and experiences that shaped the many-stranded consciousness of one of literature's greatest writers. This in-depth and innovative biography covers Melville's family history and literary friendships, his father-longing, god-hunger, and search for the hidden nature of Being, the genesis of his liberal politics, his empathy for African Americans, Native Americans, Polynesians, South Americans, and immigrants. Original perspectives on Melville's earliest identities-orphaned son, sibling, farmer, teacher, debater, lover, actor, sailor-provide the context for Melville's evolution as a writer. The biography presents new information regarding Melville's reading, his early orations and acting experience, his life at sea and on the road, and the unsettling death of his older, rival brother from mercury poisoning. It provides insights on experiences such as Melville's trauma at the loss of his father, his learning to write amidst a coterie siblings, his struggles to find work during economic depression, his journey West, his life in whaling and in the navy, and his vagabondage in the South Pacific during the moment of American and European imperial incursions. A significant addition to Melville scholarship, this important biographical work: Explores the nature and development of Melville's creative consciousness, through the lens of his revisions in manuscript and print Assesses Melville's sexual growth and exploration of the spectrum of his masculinities Highlights Melville's relevance in contemporary democratic society Discusses Melville's blending of dark humor and tragedy in his unique version of the picturesque Examines the 'replaying' of Melville's life traumas throughout his entire works, from Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, Pierre, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man to his shorter works, including "Bartleby, " his epic Clarel, his poetry, and his last novella Billy Budd Covers such cultural and historical events as the American revolution of his grandparents, the whaling industry, New York slavery, street life and theater in Manhattan, the transatlantic slave trade, the Jacksonian economy, Indian removal, Pacific colonialism, and westward expansion Written in an engaging style for scholars and general readers alike, Herman Melville: A Half Known Life, Volumes 1 and 2 is an indispensable new source of information and insights for those interested in Melville, 19th-century and modern literature and culture, and readers of general American history and literary culture.
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• 1: Choosing Church
• 2: Student Marriage
• 3: Coming of Age
• 4: Bread and Wine
• 5: War Work
• 6: Building the World New
• 7: Back to Church
• 8: Margaret Mead Answers
• 9: Spiritual Significance
• 10: For the Joy of the Working Selected Bibliography.
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For 50 years, Margaret Mead told Americans how cultures worked, and Americans listened. While serving as a curator at the American Museum of Natural History and as a professor of anthropology at Columbia University, she published dozens of books and hundreds of articles, scholarly and popular, on topics ranging from adolescence to atomic energy, Polynesian kinship networks to kindergarten, national morale to marijuana. At her death in 1978, she was the most famous anthropologist in the world and one of the best-known women in America. She had amply achieved her goal, as she described it to an interviewer in 1975, "To have lived long enough to be of some use." As befits her prominence, Mead has had many biographers, but there is a curious hole at the center of these accounts: Mead's faith. Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith introduces a side of its subject that few people know. It re-narrates her life and reinterprets her work, highlighting religious concerns. Following Mead's lead, it ranges across areas that are typically kept academically distinct: anthropology, gender studies, intellectual history, church history, and theology. It is a portrait of a mind at work, pursuing a unique vision of the good of the world.
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• Nebraska, New England, New York : mapping the foreground of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis's creative partnership
• Office Bohemia : At home in Greenwich Village, at work in the magazines
• "Our wonderful adventures in the Southwest" : Willa Cather and Edith Lewis's southwestern collaborations
• "The thing not named" : Edith Lewis's advertising career and Willa Cather's fiction and celebrity in the 1920s
• "Edith and I hope to get away to Grand Manan" : work, play, and community at Whale Cove
• "We are the only wonderful things" : The late lives and deaths of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis
• Epilogue : the Edith Lewis ghost

A groundbreaking new look at American novelist Willa Cather's creative process What would Willa Cather's widely read and cherished novels have looked like if she had never met magazine editor and copywriter Edith Lewis? In this groundbreaking book on Cather's relationship with her life partner, author Melissa J. Homestead counters the established portrayal of Cather as a solitary genius and reassesses the role that Lewis, who has so far been rendered largely invisible by scholars, played in shaping Cather's work. Inviting Lewis to share the spotlight alongside this pivotal American writer, Homestead argues that Lewis was not just Cather's companion but also her close literary collaborator and editor. Drawing on an array of previously unpublished sources, Homestead skillfully reconstructs Cather and Lewis's life together, from their time in New York City to their travels in the American Southwest that formed the basis of the novels The Professor's House and Death Comes for the Archbishop. After Cather's death and in the midst of the Cold War panic over homosexuality, the story of her life with Edith Lewis could not be told, but by telling it now, Homestead offers a refreshing take on lesbian life in early twentieth-century America.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction
• Chapter 1 "Epitome of America"
• Chapter 2 "A Deep Craving, A Keen Urge"
• Chapter 3 "I Must Change My Life"
• Chapter 4 Art and Adler
• Chapter 5 "Courageous Evolution"
• chapter 6 Toward the "Unconditional Realm"
• Chapter 7 "I will not become a professional Christian"
• Chapter 8 "Rasputin, Shelley, Van Gogh and Fosdick in One"
• Chapter 9 "The Choice of a Mate"
• Chapter 10 Paul Tillich
• Chapter 11 "Life Affirming Religion"
• Chapter 12 "Therapist for Humanity"
• Chapter 13 "The More Difficult War Within"
• Chapter 14 "Such a Blow Just Now"
• Chapter 15 Saranac
• Chapter 16 "The Most Important Thing"
• Chapter 17 Embracing a New Profession
• Chapter 18 Existential Calling
• Chapter 19 Freedom in the Face of Fate
• Chapter 20 Kairos and Void
• Chapter 21 The Dizziness of Freedom
• Chapter 22 Love and Will
• Chapter 23 Power and Innocence
• Chapter 24 "I Don't Have Time to Die" Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index.
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In post-World War II America and especially during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s, the psychologist Rollo May contributed profoundly to the popular and professional response to a widely felt sense of personal emptiness amid a culture in crisis. May addressed the sources of depression, powerlessness, and conformity but also mapped a path to restore authentic individuality, intimacy, creativity, and community. A psychotherapist by trade, he employed theology, philosophy, literature, and the arts to answer a central enduring question: "How, then, shall we live?" Robert Abzug's definitive biography traces May's epic life from humble origins in the Protestant heartland of the Midwest to his longtime practice in New York City and his participation in the therapeutic culture of California. May's books-Love and Will, Man's Search for Himself, The Courage to Create, and others-as well as his championing of non-medical therapeutic practice and introduction of Existential psychotherapy to America marked important contributions to the profession. Most of all, May's compelling prose reached millions of readers from all walks of life, finding their place, as Noah Adams noted in his NPR eulogy, "on a hippy's bookshelf." And May was one of the founders of the humanistic psychology movement that has shaped the very vocabulary with which many Americans describe their emotional and spiritual lives. Based on full and uncensored access to May's papers and original oral interviews, Psyche and Soul in America reveals his turbulent inner life, his religious crises, and their influence on his contribution to the world of psychotherapy and the culture beyond. It adds new and intimate dimensions to an important aspect of America's romance with therapy, as the site for the exploration of spiritual strivings and moral dilemmas unmet for many by traditional religion.
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• Preface
• Chapter 1. An Unconventional Student and Rabbi
• Chapter 2. Restoring the Dignity of Judaism
• Chapter 3. Rabbi in the World War
• Chapter 4. A Thinker Engaged
• Chapter 5. The Burden of Leadership
• Chapter 6. Enmeshed
• Chapter 7 Theresienstadt
• Chapter 8. Reality After Catastrophe
• Epilogue. The Icon and the Person
• Notes Bibliographic Essay Index Acknowledgments.
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Rabbi, educator, intellectual, and community leader, Leo Baeck (1873-1956) was one of the most important Jewish figures of prewar Germany. The publication of his 1905 Das Wesen des Judentums (The Essence of Judaism) established him as a major voice for liberal Judaism. He served as a chaplain to the German army during the First World War and in the years following, resisting the call of political Zionism, he expressed his commitment to the belief in a vibrant place for Jews in a new Germany. This hope was dashed with the rise of Nazism, and from 1933 on, and continuing even after his deportation to Theresienstadt, he worked tirelessly in his capacity as a leader of the German Jewish community to offer his coreligionists whatever practical, intellectual, and spiritual support remained possible. While others after the war worked to rebuild German Jewish life from the ashes, a disillusioned Baeck pronounced the effort misguided and spent the rest of his life in England. Yet his name is perhaps best-known today from the Leo Baeck Institutes in New York, London, Berlin, and Jerusalem dedicated to the preservation of the cultural heritage of German-speaking Jewry. Michael A. Meyer has written a biography that gives equal consideration to Leo Baeck's place as a courageous community leader and as one of the most significant Jewish religious thinkers of the twentieth century, comparable to such better-known figures as Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and Abraham Joshua Heschel. According to Meyer, to understand Baeck fully, one must probe not only his thought and public activity but also his personality. Generally described as gentle and kind, he could also be combative when necessary, and a streak of puritanism and an outsized veneration for martyrdom ran through his psychological makeup. Drawing on a broad variety of sources, some coming to light only in recent years, but especially turning to Baeck's own writings, Meyer presents a complex and nuanced image of one of the most noteworthy personalities in the Jewish history of our age.
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• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• 1. STANISLAVSKI (1863-1938) - Bella Merlin
• 1.1 BIOGRAPHY IN SOCIAL AND ARTISTIC CONTEXT
• 1.2 DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF THE SEAGULL
• 2. MEYERHOLD (1874-1940) - Jonathan Pitches
• 2.1 A LIFE OF CONTRADICTIONS
• 2.2 MEYERHOLD'S KEY PRODUCTION: THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR
• 3. COPEAU (1879-1949) - Mark Evans
• 3.1 THE LIFE OF JACQUES COPEAU
• 3.2 COPEAU'S IDEAS IN PRODUCTION: LES FOURBERIES DE SCAPIN
• 4. LABAN (1879-1958) - Karen K. Bradley
• 4.1 LABAN'S CORE: BIOGRAPHY
• 4.2 THE TANZTHEATER AND ANALYSIS OF A WORK: DIE GRUENEN CLOWNS
• 5. WIGMAN (1886-1973) - Mary Anne Santos Newhall
• 5.1 MARY WIGMAN: A LIFE IN DANCE
• 5.2 MARY WIGMAN AS CHOREOGRAPHER: CHOOSING THE FOCUS
• 6. CHEKHOV (1891-1955) - Franc Chamberlain
• 6.1 BIOGRAPHY AND CONTEXT
• 6.2 CHEKHOV AS DIRECTOR
• 7. BRECHT (1898-1956) - Meg Mumford
• 7.1 A LIFE IN FLUX
• 7.2 THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE: A PRODUCTION MODEL
• 8. DECROUX (1898-1991) - Thomas Leabhart
• 8.1 A PROMETHEAN LIFE
• 8.2 DECROUX AS DIRECTOR/CREATOR: HOW DID DECROUX MAKE A PERFORMANCE?
• 9. OHNO (1906-2010) and HIJIKATA (1928-1986) - Sondra Fraleigh and Tamah Nakamura
• 9.1 BUTOH SHAPESHIFTERS
• 9.2 DANCES OF DEATH, SACRIFICE, AND SPIRIT
• 10. LITTLEWOOD (1914-2002) - Nadine Holdsworth
• 10.1 BIOGRAPHY IN POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND ARTISTIC CONTEXT
• 10.2 DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS OF OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR
• Index.
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The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks. Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular figure, from Stanislavsky and Brecht to Laban and Decroux, and places their work in its social and historical context. Summaries and analyses of their key productions indicate how each practitioner's theoretical approaches to performance and the performer were manifested in practice. All 22 practitioners from the original series are represented, with this volume covering those born before the end of the First World War. This is the definitive first step for students, scholars and practitioners hoping to acquaint themselves with the leading names in performance, or deepen their knowledge of these seminal figures. .
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• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• 11. KANTOR (1915-1990) - Noel Witts
• 11.1 BIOGRAPHY AND CONTEXT
• 11.2 KEY PERFORMANCES
• 12. HALPRIN (1920-) - Libby Worth and Helen Poynor
• 12.1 LIFE AND WORK
• 12.2 THE MOUNTAIN PERFORMANCES, CIRCLE THE EARTH AND THE PLANETARY DANCE
• 13. LECOQ (1921-1999) - Simon Murray
• 13.1 THE LIFE OF JACQUES LECOQ
• 13.2 TRACES OF JACQUES LECOQ: THEATRE DE COMPLICITE'S STREET OF CROCODILES AND THE WORK OF MUMMENSCHANZ
• 14. BOAL (1931- 2009) - Frances Babbage
• 14.1 BIOGRAPHY AND CONTEXT
• 14.2 FORUM THEATRE IN PRODUCTION
• 15. GROTOWSKI (1933 - 1999) - James Slowiak and Jairo Cuesta
• 15.1 BIOGRAPHY AND CONTEXT
• 15.2 GROTOWSKI AS DIRECTOR
• 16. BARBA (1936-) - Jane Turner
• 16.1 BUILDING A 'SMALL TRADITION'
• 16.2 A SPECTATOR'S VIEW OF EGO FAUST
• 17. MNOUCHKINE (1939 -) - Judith G. Miller
• 17.1 INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC BIOGRAPHY: NOMAD OF THE IMAGINATION
• 17.2 FOUR KEY PRODUCTIONS: MNOUCHKINE'S "FANATICALLY THEATRICAL"
• 18. BAUSCH (1940 - 2009) - Royd Climenhaga
• 18.1 AN ARTISTIC AND CONTEXTUAL HISTORY
• 18.2 KONTAKTHOF IN CONTEXT
• 19. WILSON (1941-) - Maria Shevtsova
• 19.1 A WORKING LIFE
• 19.2 EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH AND PUSHKIN'S FAIRYTALES
• 20. ABRAMOVIC (1946-) - Mary Richards
• 20.1 BIOGRAPHY AND CONTEXT
• 20.2 KEY WORKS
• 21. LEPAGE (1957-) - Aleksandar Sasa Dundjerovic
• 21.1 CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC BIOGRAPHY: ROBERT LEPAGE IN-BETWEEN WORLDS
• 21.2 PERFORMANCE TEXT: THE DRAGONS' TRILOGY
• Index.
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The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks. Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular figure, from Stanislavsky and Brecht to Laban and Decroux, and places their work in its social and historical context. Summaries and analyses of their key productions indicate how each practitioner's theoretical approaches to performance and the performer were manifested in practice. All 22 practitioners from the original series are represented, with this volume covering those born after 1915. This is the definitive first step for students, scholars and practitioners hoping to acquaint themselves with the leading names in performance, or deepen their knowledge of these seminal figures.
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• Preface-- List of Contributors-- List of Abbreviations-- Part I. Russia and Identity:
• 1. Memory and truth: Stravinsky's childhood (1882-1901) Catriona Kelly--
• 2. Religion, life and death in St Petersburg Natalia Braginskaya--
• 3. Kashperova and Stravinsky: the making of a concert-pianist Graham Griffiths--
• 4. Reminiscences of Rimsky-Korsakov, his family and artistic circle Lidia Ader--
• 5. Orthodoxies and unorthodoxies: Stravinsky's spiritual journey Ivan Moody--
• 6. The Russian soul Rowan Williams-- Part II. Stravinsky and Europe:
• 7. Sergei Diaghilev and Stravinsky: from world of art to ballets russes John E. Bowlt--
• 8. Paris and the Belle Epoque Davinia Caddy--
• 9. Paris, Art Deco, and the spirit of Apollo Jonathan Cross--
• 10. Stravinsky's Spain: fan or mirror? Graham Griffiths--
• 11. 'It is Venice that he loves...' Mauricio Dottori-- Part III. Partnerships and Authorship:
• 12. Stravinsky's sphere of influence: Paris and beyond Inessa Bazayev--
• 13. Stravinsky and his literary collaborators Maureen Carr--
• 14. Assuming co-authorship: Stravinsky and his 'ghost-writers' Valerie Dufour--
• 15. Nadia Boulanger and Stravinsky: the transition to America Kimberly Francis--
• 16. Conversations with craft Anna Schmidtmann-- Part IV. Performance and Performers:
• 17. Challenges to realism and tradition: Stravinsky's modernist theatre Massimiliano Locanto--
• 18. Igor Stravinsky and ballet as modernism Stephanie Jordan--
• 19. Stravinsky's ear for instruments Chris Dromey--
• 20. Towards a conductor-proof ideal Hannah Baxter--
• 21. The pianist in the recording studio: re-imagining interpretation Daniel Barolsky--
• 22. The legacy of Stravinsky as recorded history Per Dahl-- Part V. Aesthetics and Politics:
• 23. Stravinsky versus literature Emily Frey--
• 24. Stravinsky and Greek antiquity Katerina Levidou--
• 25. Stravinsky's response to 'Japonisme' Mai Ikehara--
• 26. Stravinsky, modernism and mass culture Ross Cole--
• 27. Perspectives on Schoenberg and Stravinsky: Adorno and others Alan Street--
• 28. Stravinsky's 'problematical' political orientation during the 1920s and 1930s Erik Levi-- Part VI. Reception and Legacy:
• 29. The Apollonian clockwork re-wound Elmer Schoenberger--
• 30. Stravinsky reception in the USSR Philip Ewell--
• 31. The Stravinsky/Craft conversations in Russian and their reception Olga Manulkina--
• 32. Publishing Stravinsky Nigel Simeone-- 33.Copyright, the Stravinsky estate, and the Paul Sacher foundation Heidy Zimmermann--
• 34. Evoking the past, inspiring the future Lynne Rogers--
• 35. 'Music is, by its very essence, powerless to express anything at all' Daniel K L Chua-- Index.
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Stravinsky in Context offers an alternative to chronological biography. Thirty-five short, specially commissioned essays explore the eventful life-tapestry from which Stravinsky's compositions emerged. The opening chapters draw on new research into the composer's childhood in St. Petersburg. Stravinsky's early, often traumatic upbringing is examined in depth, particularly in the context of his brother Roman's death, and religious sensibilities within the family. Further essays consider Stravinsky's years in exile at the centre of dynamic and ever-evolving cultural environments, the composer constantly refining his idiom and re-defining his aesthetics against a backdrop of world events and personal tragedy. The closing chapters review new material regarding Stravinsky's complicated relationship with the Soviet Union, whilst also anticipating his legacy from the varied perspectives of publishing, research and even - in the iconic example of The Rite of Spring - space exploration. The book includes previously unpublished images of the composer and his family.
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• Contents and AbstractsIntroduction: Introduction: From Limbo to Childhood chapter abstractThis
• chapter introduces the book's approach of situating a cultural giant within several intersecting histories and minority discourses, as well as analyzing the artist's work as an embodied testament to a complex historical and cultural experience. Contextualizing Sendak's sensitive but convoluted subjectivity within histories of modern childhood, Jewish American acculturation, and enduring affiliations between queer difference and children's literature, it offers a roadmap for the book and orients the project within broader studies of childhood, Jewishness, queerness, and affect.
• One: Where the Wild Things Acculturate: Roots and Wings in Interwar Brooklyn chapter abstract
• Chapter 1 situates Sendak's artistic vision within intertwined histories of immigrant acculturation and the emergence of modern childhood. Early twentieth-century immigrants' children were in some ways socialized out of their own families of origin. Sendak was born into a zeitgeist of speed and mobility in a culture that celebrated mechanical innovation, youth, capitalism, and superhero fantasies. Popular consumerism exploded alongside the solidification of child psychology, surges in global antisemitism, and rising anxieties about fascism. Social commentators envisioned minorities and cityscapes as potentially threatening to the American child's healthy development. Sendak grew up sensitive to his parents' anxieties as Jewish immigrants and mesmerized by gritty urban spectacles and mass media. His youth clashed with dominant conceptions of childhood as a time of rose-colored, protected innocence. His creative work would instead convey the culturally fraught separation anxieties experienced between immigrant parents and American children in the interwar urban landscape.
• Two: Love in a Dangerous Landscape: Queer Kinship and Survival chapter abstractFocusing on the years of World War II,
• Chapter 2 examines Sendak's creative notions of kinship in dialogue with literature of Jewish families in contexts of migration, collective mourning, and survival. Sendak spent the war years as a young adolescent, aware that his relatives were being murdered in Nazi-occupied Poland. Tumultuous, but tight-knit relationships within his mourning family elucidate the almost divine significance his work would attribute to ruptured parent-child boundaries, creative sibling bonds, and queer yearnings. His work took elements characteristic, if stereotypic, of twentieth-century Yiddish-speaking Jewish families and transformed them into nursery rhyme and fairy tale archetypes. Sendak's childhood location within a milieu repeatedly targeted for violent destruction and shrouded in traumatic losses reverberates in his work. His mythical and cosmic fusions convey feelings about growing up with precarious identifications and emotional investment in familial pasts that he did not directly experience.
• Three: Surviving the American Dream: Early Childhood as Queer Lens at Midcentury chapter abstractIn the immediate postwar years, the young Sendak continued to negotiate competing realities. The dominant "American Dream" idealized childhood innocence, heterosexual marriage, and the suburban nuclear family-- his parents' Jewish Brooklyn community mourned destroyed communities of origin-- and his own relocation to Manhattan offered fraught realms of discreet exploration as a gay man. This chapter examines how the artist preserved his sense of self apart from a mainstream culture that devalued ethnically and sexually atypical people. Sendak's beginnings as an illustrator and picture-book artist reflect an unassimilable subjectivity that separated him from dominant social meanings and encouraged his investment in excavating his early childhood self. With the help of queer and Jewish mentors, including picture-book author Ruth Krauss and a gay Jewish therapist named Bertram Slaff, Sendak solidified his creative vision and began to subvert the limitations of the American Dream with queer and ethnically marginal elements.
• Four: "Milk in the Batter" and Controversy in the Making: "Camp, " Stigma, and Public Spotlight in the Era of Social Liberation chapter abstractFocusing on the 1960s and 1970s,
• Chapter 4 connects Sendak's use of child's play to the challenges and triumphs of excluded and stigmatized outsiders. Sendak participated in a tradition historically employed by insider-outsider minorities, including Jews and queer people, whose difference could be selectively hidden in order "to pass." This chapter examines Sendak's relationship to costume, to the dramatic arts, and to spaces of social liberation, including Fire Island, as well as his use of child's play, theatricality, and "Camp" sensibilities in correspondences and picture books to work through feelings of queer shame and social incoherence. It reads his creative process in dialogue with sociological writing on the creativity of stigmatized individuals, queer theories of time and space, and psychoanalytic writings on the "creative personality." Sendak harnessed a stigmatized subjectivity to create messages that spoke to those disenchanted with the homogenous, middle-class ideals of midcentury America.
• Five: Inside Out: Processing the AIDS Crisis and Holocaust Memory Through the Romantic Child chapter abstract
• Chapter 5 focuses on Sendak's life and work in the years following his move to Ridgefield, Connecticut, in 1972, exploring how notions of "inside"' and "outside" intensified in his creative vision. As late twentieth-century Jews became, generally speaking, more enfranchised in middle-class America and were increasingly essentialized as complacent beneficiaries of "White privilege, " anxiety about the need to preserve Jewish distinctiveness increased. Meanwhile, America institutionalized Holocaust memory and became more comfortable with Old World nostalgia. Mainstream culture in the 1980s also retreated from social liberation movements, empowering homophobia and social conservatism. Considering these contextual shifts, this chapter studies the aging Sendak's creative handling of boundary violations and "unnatural, " death-infused relations, including visual mergers of the Holocaust with the AIDS crisis. It asks how he reconciled a political calling he felt during that crisis, which took many of his loved ones, with an impulse to turn inward.
• Conclusion: Conclusion: A Garden on the Edge of the World chapter abstractThis section reflects broadly on social and cultural influences that shaped Sendak's art, as well as on his legacy as a critic of collectively imposed simplifications of childhood. It connects the concerns of his art to contemporary creative representations of childhood, as well as to enduring social inequities. Childhood continues to operate as a cultural site contributing to definitions of deviance, as well as to the inclusion and exclusion of various minority populations, including Black Americans. Sendak celebrated the sensitivity, ferocity, and playful liminality of childhood, cultivating his own "inner child" as a position from which to articulate the complexity of a displaced queer subjectivity in a displaced immigrant family unit, as well as the dangers of puritanism and social coercion in the public sphere.
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Wild Visionary reconsiders Maurice Sendak's life and work in the context of his experience as a Jewish gay man. Maurice (Moishe) Bernard Sendak (1928-2012) was a fierce, romantic, and shockingly funny truth seeker who intervened in modern literature and culture. Raising the stakes of children's books, Sendak painted childhood with the dark realism and wild imagination of his own sensitive "inner child, " drawing on the queer and Yiddish sensibilities that shaped his singular voice. Interweaving literary biography and cultural history, Golan Y. Moskowitz follows Sendak from his parents' Brooklyn home to spaces of creative growth and artistic vision-from neighborhood movie palaces to Hell's Kitchen, Greenwich Village, Fire Island, and the Connecticut country home he shared with Eugene Glynn, his partner of more than fifty years. Further, he analyzes Sendak's investment in the figure of the endangered child in symbolic relation to collective touchstones that impacted the artist's perspective-the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and the AIDS crisis. Through a deep exploration of Sendak's picture books, interviews, and previously unstudied personal correspondence, Wild Visionary offers a sensitive portrait of the most beloved and enchanting picture-book artist of our time.
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