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Bernard Shaw’s Bridges to Chinese Culture (Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries)

This book explores the cultural bridges connecting George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, such as Charles Dickens and Arthur Miller, to China. Analyzing readings, adaptations, and connections of Shaw in China through the lens of Chinese culture, Li details the negotiations between the focused and culturally specific standpoints of eastern and western culture while also investigating the simultaneously diffused, multi-focal, and comprehensive perspectives that create strategic moments that favor cross-cultural readings.With sources ranging from Shaw's connections with his contemporaries in China to contemporary Chinese films and interpretations of Shaw in the digital space, Li relates the global impact of not only what Chinese lenses can reveal about Shaw's world, but how intercultural and interdisciplinary readings can shed new light on familiar and obscure works alike.

Bernard Shaw’s Fiction, Material Psychology, and Affect: Shaw, Freud, Simmel (Bernard Shaw And His Contemporaries Ser.)

This book traces the effects of materiality - including money and its opposite, poverty - on the psychical lives of George Bernard Shaw and his characters. While this study focuses on the protagonists of the five novels Shaw wrote in the late 1870s and early 1880s, it also explores how materialism, feeling, and emotion are linked throughout his entire canon. At the same time, it demonstrates how Shaw's conceptions of human subjectivity parallel those of two of his contemporaries, Sigmund Freud and Georg Simmel. In particular, this book explores how theories of so-called 'marginal economics' influence fin de siècle thought about human psychology and the sociology of the modern metropolis, particularly London.

Bernard Shaw’s Irish Outlook (Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries)

Using close readings of Shaw's plays and letters, as well as archival research, David Clare illustrates that Shaw regularly placed Irish, Irish Diasporic, and surrogate Irish characters into his plays in order to comment on Anglo-Irish relations and to explore the nature of Irishness.

Bernard Shaw's Marriages and Misalliances (Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries)

This book combines the insights of thirteen Shavian scholars as they examine the themes of marriage, relationships and partnerships throughout all of Bernard Shaw’s major works. It also connects Shaw’s own experiences of love and marriage to the themes that emerge in his works, showing how his personal relationships in and out of matrimonial bonds change the ways his characters enter and exit marriages and misalliances. While providing a wealth of new analysis, this collection of essays also leaves lingering questions for the reader to spark continuing dialogue in both individual and academic settings.

Bernardin De St Pierre, 1737-1814: A Life of Culture

"Bernardin de St Pierre (1737-1814) was a major figure of the late French Enlightenment. In this first full-length critical biography of the author in English, Malcolm Cook seeks to understand the importance of Bernardin's major works. Drawing heavily on unpublished manuscript material, he provides a fresh account of the writer's significance and status in a period of French history which, during Bernardin's lifetime, saw the transition from monarchy to republic and empire. The book is both a critical account of a major author and a source of new insights into the cultural revolution taking place around him."

Bernardin De St Pierre, 1737-1814: A Life of Culture

"Bernardin de St Pierre (1737-1814) was a major figure of the late French Enlightenment. In this first full-length critical biography of the author in English, Malcolm Cook seeks to understand the importance of Bernardin's major works. Drawing heavily on unpublished manuscript material, he provides a fresh account of the writer's significance and status in a period of French history which, during Bernardin's lifetime, saw the transition from monarchy to republic and empire. The book is both a critical account of a major author and a source of new insights into the cultural revolution taking place around him."

Bernhard-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung

Das unverwechselbare Werk Thomas Bernhards hat weit über den deutschsprachigen Raum hinaus Resonanz gefunden. Im Zentrum dieses Handbuchs stehen seine Texte von den journalistischen Arbeiten über die Prosawerke und Theaterstücke bis zu Reden und Interviews. Aufschlussreiche Querschnitte durch dieses vielschichtige Œuvre bieten die Kapitel zu „Kontexten und Diskursen“: Sie widmen sich u.a. der österreichischen Literatur, den Verlagen, dem Theater sowie Bernhards Stellung in der zeitgenössischen Öffentlichkeit. Diskurse, die sich durch das ganze Werk ziehen, sind etwa Krankheit/Tod, Österreichkritik, Natur/Künstlichkeit, Musik, Geschlechterrollen und Philosophie. Beiträge zur deutschsprachigen und internationalen Rezeption und ein Anhang mit ausführlichen Informationen zur Lebens- und Publikationsgeschichte sowie zur Sekundärliteratur runden den Band ab.

Berryman and Lowell: The Art of Losing

PMContents: Introduction: Tumbles and Leaps; Beginning in Wisdom; Towards a Rhetoric of Destitution; Excellence and Loss; History and Seduction; Defeats and Dreams; Notes and References; Index

Bertolt Brecht (Sammlung Metzler)

Brecht als Dramatiker, Lyriker, Erzähler und Theoretiker. Brechts Werke werden nach einer allgemeinen Einführung verschiedenen Werkgruppen und Phasen zugeordnet, z.B. Musikdramen, Wirtschaftsdramen, Lehrstücke, Bearbeitungen. Ergänzt werden die Werkerläuterungen um Angaben zu Entstehung, Fassungen, Erstdruck, verarbeiteten Quellen, MitarbeiterInnen, Inszenierungen, etc.

Bertolt Brecht (Routledge Performance Practitioners)

Bertolt Brecht’s methods of collective experimentation, and his unique framing of the theatrical event as a forum for change, placed him among the most important contributors to the theory and practice of theatre. His work continues to have a significant impact on performance practitioners, critics and teachers alike. Now revised and reissued, this book combines: an overview of the key periods in Brecht’s life and work a clear explanation of his key theories, including the renowned ideas of Gestus and Verfremdung an account of his groundbreaking 1954 production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle an in-depth analysis of his practical exercises and rehearsal methods. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are an invaluable resource for students and scholars.

Bertolt Brecht (Routledge Performance Practitioners)

Bertolt Brecht’s methods of collective experimentation, and his unique framing of the theatrical event as a forum for change, placed him among the most important contributors to the theory and practice of theatre. His work continues to have a significant impact on performance practitioners, critics and teachers alike. Now revised and reissued, this book combines: an overview of the key periods in Brecht’s life and work a clear explanation of his key theories, including the renowned ideas of Gestus and Verfremdung an account of his groundbreaking 1954 production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle an in-depth analysis of his practical exercises and rehearsal methods. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are an invaluable resource for students and scholars.

Bertolt Brecht (Modern Dramatists)

Brecht's reputation, which is now world-wide, rests principally on his contribution to political theatre in the twentieth century. He is known, not only for such major plays as Mother Courage and her Children, The Life of Galileo, The Good Person of Szechwan, or The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and for the concepts of 'Epic Theatre' or the 'alienation effect', but also for the exemplary productions with which the Berliner Ensemble scored successes both at its home in East Berlin and on its influential tours throughout Europe. However, Brecht also produced important work in the 1920s, before he became a committed political dramatist. This study therefore surveys his whole development, considering both the continuities and the discontinuities between his earlier and his later, Marxist, work examining critically the relations between theory and practice, and studying the major plays in detail. It argues that Brecht's procedures both of writing and production are better understood as rhetorical strategies than as 'scientific' demonstrations. '...Dr Speirs provides a balanced amount of description and of analysis, which together with details of productions (supported by eight pages of illustrations) will stimulate students of Brecht's drama as literature, as well as those interested in performance. A valuable addition to any school or college library, it is also at its very reasonable paperback price, a book which all Brecht enthusiasts will be able to purchase.' Times Educational Supplement.

Bertolt Brecht und Dario Fo: Wege des epischen Theaters

In einem programmatischen Dokument hat Dario Fo die epische Dramatik Bertolt Brechts für die Praxis seines politischen Theaters als die geeignetste erklärt. So bedient er sich der Brechtschen Verfremdungsmethoden, aber auch der traditionellen Formen des Volkstheaters, von der Farce und der Commedia dell´arte über die Pantomime bis zum Puppen- und Marionettenspiel. Während jedoch Brecht die Bühne in einen Ort der Reflexion verwandeln will, ist für Fo das Theater ein politisches Kampfmittel. Ende der sechziger Jahre betritt der Theatermann den Boden des Happenings und der direkten Aktion und stellt sich in den Dienst der Massenbewegungen der italienischen Linken. Damit verändert sich auch die Bindung des Theaters an die Wirklichkeit: Theater wird zur Lebensform.

Bertolt Brechts Erfolgsmarke: Dreigroschen für Fressen & Moral

Das Buch vor dem Film. – Am 31. August 1928 schlug Brechts Dreigroschenoper im Berliner Theater am Schiffbauerdamm wie eine Bombe ein und beendete die Herrschaft der hohen Kultur in Deutschland. Doch Brechts größter Erfolg ging bald in der Unterhaltungsindustrie auf: der Haifisch verlor seine Zähne. 1930 entwarf Brecht einen Dreigroschenfilm, nannte ihn Die Beule und versuchte dem Dreigroschenstoff mit den avantgardistischen Film-Techniken der Zeit seinen gesellschaftskritischen Biss wiederzugeben. Den möglichen Film verhinderten die Apparate der schwergewichtigen Filmproduzenten sowie die Politik. – Jan Knopfs Buch erzählt die dornenreiche wie ruhmgekrönte Story, die zu Brechts Erfolgsmarke führte, und bezieht dabei unbekannte Dokumente wie die Urfassung des Schlüsselstücks der Weimarer Republik, Mann ist Mann, ein. Darüber hinaus legt Knopf ein Treatment für einen Dreigroschenfilm vor, den Brecht womöglich im digitalen Zeitalter gern realisiert hätte.

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Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian Philosophers: Constructing the World (History of Analytic Philosophy)

The author demonstrates the significant role that some of the Edwardian philosophers played in the formation of Russell's work on the problem of the external world done at the tail-end of a controversy which raged between about 1900-1915.

Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions: A History and Defence of the Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy)

Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions offers the first book-length defence of the Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement (MRTJ). Although the theory was much maligned by Wittgenstein and ultimately rejected by Russell himself, Lebens shows that it provides a rich and insightful way to understand the nature of propositional content. In Part I, Lebens charts the trajectory of Russell’s thought before he adopted the MRTJ. Part II reviews the historical story of the theory: What led Russell to deny the existence of propositions altogether? Why did the theory keep evolving throughout its short life? What role did G. F. Stout play in the evolution of the theory? What was Wittgenstein’s concern with the theory, and, if we can’t know what his concern was exactly, then what are the best contending hypotheses? And why did Russell give the theory up? In Part III, Lebens makes the case that Russell’s concerns with the theory weren’t worth its rejection. Moreover, he argues that the MRTJ does most of what we could want from an account of propositions at little philosophical cost. This book bridges the history of early analytic philosophy with work in contemporary philosophy of language. It advances a bold reading of the theory of descriptions and offers a new understanding of the role of Stout and the representation concern in the evolution of the MRTJ. It also makes a decisive contribution to philosophy of language by demonstrating the viability of a no-proposition theory of propositions.

Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions: A History and Defence of the Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy)

Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions offers the first book-length defence of the Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement (MRTJ). Although the theory was much maligned by Wittgenstein and ultimately rejected by Russell himself, Lebens shows that it provides a rich and insightful way to understand the nature of propositional content. In Part I, Lebens charts the trajectory of Russell’s thought before he adopted the MRTJ. Part II reviews the historical story of the theory: What led Russell to deny the existence of propositions altogether? Why did the theory keep evolving throughout its short life? What role did G. F. Stout play in the evolution of the theory? What was Wittgenstein’s concern with the theory, and, if we can’t know what his concern was exactly, then what are the best contending hypotheses? And why did Russell give the theory up? In Part III, Lebens makes the case that Russell’s concerns with the theory weren’t worth its rejection. Moreover, he argues that the MRTJ does most of what we could want from an account of propositions at little philosophical cost. This book bridges the history of early analytic philosophy with work in contemporary philosophy of language. It advances a bold reading of the theory of descriptions and offers a new understanding of the role of Stout and the representation concern in the evolution of the MRTJ. It also makes a decisive contribution to philosophy of language by demonstrating the viability of a no-proposition theory of propositions.

Bertrand Russell, Language and Linguistic Theory (Continuum Studies in British Philosophy)

Although there has been a significant revival in interest in Bertrand Russell's work in recent years, most professional philosophers would still argue that Russell was not interested in language. Here, in the first full-length study of Russell's work on language throughout his long career, Keith Green shows that this is in fact not the case. In examining Russell's work, particularly from 1900 to 1950, Green exposes a repeated emphasis on, and turn to, linguistic considerations. Green considers how 'linguistics' and 'philosophy' were struggling in the twentieth century to define themselves and to create appropriate contemporary disciplines. They had much in common during certain periods, yet seemed to continue in almost total ignorance of one another. This negative relation has been noted in the past by Roy Harris, whose work provides some of the inspiration for the present book. Taking those two aspects, Green's aim here is to provide the first full-length consideration of Russell's varied work in language, and to read it in the context of developing contemporary (i.e. with Russell's work) linguistic theory.The main aims of this important new book, in  focusing exclusively on Russell's work on language throughout his career, are to place Russell within the changing contexts of contemporary linguistic thought; to read Russell's language-theories against the grain of his own linguistic practice; to assess the relationship between linguistic and philosophical thought during Russell's career, and to reassess his place in the history of linguistic thought in the twentieth century. As such, this fascinating study will make a vital contribution to Russell studies and to the study of the relationship between philosophy and linguistics.

Bertrand Russell, Language and Linguistic Theory (Continuum Studies in British Philosophy)

Although there has been a significant revival in interest in Bertrand Russell's work in recent years, most professional philosophers would still argue that Russell was not interested in language. Here, in the first full-length study of Russell's work on language throughout his long career, Keith Green shows that this is in fact not the case. In examining Russell's work, particularly from 1900 to 1950, Green exposes a repeated emphasis on, and turn to, linguistic considerations. Green considers how 'linguistics' and 'philosophy' were struggling in the twentieth century to define themselves and to create appropriate contemporary disciplines. They had much in common during certain periods, yet seemed to continue in almost total ignorance of one another. This negative relation has been noted in the past by Roy Harris, whose work provides some of the inspiration for the present book. Taking those two aspects, Green's aim here is to provide the first full-length consideration of Russell's varied work in language, and to read it in the context of developing contemporary (i.e. with Russell's work) linguistic theory.The main aims of this important new book, in focusing exclusively on Russell's work on language throughout his career, are to place Russell within the changing contexts of contemporary linguistic thought; to read Russell's language-theories against the grain of his own linguistic practice; to assess the relationship between linguistic and philosophical thought during Russell's career, and to reassess his place in the history of linguistic thought in the twentieth century. As such, this fascinating study will make a vital contribution to Russell studies and to the study of the relationship between philosophy and linguistics.

Berufs- und Karriereplaner Medien und Kommunikation 2003/2004: Für die Medienmacher von morgen

Der "Berufs- und Karriereplaner Medien und Kommunikation" beantwortet die meisten Fragen rund um den richtigen Berufseinstieg in die Medien- und Kommunikationsbranche.

Berufserfolg in der PR-Branche: Expressivität, Instrumentalität, Motivation

Katrin Hassenstein stellt die nach gängiger These den Frauen zugesprochenen besseren kommunikativen, empathischen und sozialen Fähigkeiten, die im feminisierten Berufsfeld Public Relations (PR) angeblich zu einem beruflichen Vorteil führen sollen, in den Fokus. Unter welchen konkreten Bedingungen machen Frauen und Männer im Berufsfeld Public Relations Karriere? Befragt wurden Pressesprecherinnen und Pressesprecher in Deutschland. Damit liefert die Autorin Erkenntnisse zum Zusammenhang zwischen geschlechtsspezifischen Persönlichkeitseigenschaften, der beruflichen Motivation und dem Berufserfolg weiblicher und männlicher PR-Praktiker.

Berufswege von Alumni einer Filmhochschule: Arbeitsmarktsituation und Spezifika des Studiums

​Die Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen „Konrad Wolf“ ist die einzige Kunsthochschule in Brandenburg. Sie nimmt nach wie vor mit ihrer vielfältigen Fächerstruktur unter den Filmhochschulen eine Sonderstellung ein, was die Diversifizierung auf unterschiedliche Bereiche der Medien angeht. Alle Bereiche filmkünstlerischen Schaffens sind in den Studienfächern vertreten und alle Anforderungen innerhalb des Herstellungs- und Distributionsprozesses können prinzipiell durch Absolventen dieser Hochschule bedient werden. Marion Jenke untersucht, ob sich dies in der Medienbranche wiederfindet. Da in den Nachwendejahren mehr Veränderungen an der HFF „Konrad Wolf“ im Vergleich zu den anderen Filmhochschulen stattfanden, ist die Frage nach der Karriereentwicklung der Absolventen dieser Hochschule von besonderer Relevanz.

Berufsziel Journalismus: Aufgaben, Anforderungen und Ansprechpartner

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Beryl (Modern Plays)

I had a constant battle to get where I am today. Scrimping and scraping, people telling me not to do it, I couldn't do it. That my life wouldn't amount to very much. Now I might have had a bit of natural talent but I got here because of pure determination and persistence. Stubbornness you might say. I always went that extra mile, pushed myself that bit harder than anyone else and never took anything for granted.It was 1954 when Beryl Charnock met keen cyclist Charlie Burton. In those days they cycled in clubs and once Beryl started she was smitten, not only with Charlie, but by the thrill and freedom found on two wheels. Beryl was better than good, she was the best, and she was determined to stay that way.Beryl Burton was five times world-pursuit champion, thirteen times national champion, twice road-racing world champion and twelve times national champion. Her accolades include time trials, former world-record holder, former British record-holder, numerous sports awards an MBE and an OBE. Burton was one of the most astonishing sports people ever to have lived, but she remains something of a mystery.Beryl, which celebrates the extraordinary sporting achievements of this inspirational cyclist, has been specially commissioned as an adaptation from Maxine Peake's acclaimed 2012 Radio 4 play and marks her stage-writing debut. It received its world premiere on 30 June 2014 at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in the Courtyard Theatre.