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This second collection from the 2022 OCM Bocas Poetry Prize winner
re-imagines Shakespeare's Othello for the modern age, intertwining
the identities of 'immigrant' and 'Black'.
Winner of the Poetry Category OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean
Literature 2022. An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021. A White
Review Book of the Year 2021. Jason Allen-Paisant grew up in a
village in central Jamaica. 'Trees were all around,' he writes, 'we
often went to the yam ground, my grandmother's cultivation plot.
When I think of my childhood, I see myself entering a deep woodland
with cedars and logwood all around. [...] The muscular guango trees
were like beings among whom we lived.' Now he lives in Leeds, near
a forest where he goes walking. 'Here, trees represent an
alternative space, a refuge from an ultra-consumerist culture...'
And even as they help him recover his connections with nature,
these poems are inevitably political. As Malika Booker writes,
'Allen-Paisant's poetic ruminations deceptively radicalise
Wordsworth's pastoral scenic daffodils. The collection racializes
contemporary ecological poetics and its power lies in
Allen-Paisant's subtle destabilization of the ordinary dog walker's
right to space, territory, property and leisure by positioning the
colonised Black male body's complicated and unsafe reality in these
spaces.'
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What is the Theatre? (Hardcover)
Christian Biet, Christophe Triau; Translated by Jason Allen-Paisant, Joanne Brueton
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R4,134
Discovery Miles 41 340
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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What is the Theatre? is one of the most coherent and systematic
descriptions and analyses of the theatre yet compiled. Theatre is,
above all, spectacle. It is a fleeting performance, delivered by
actors and intended for spectators. It is a work of the body, an
exercise of voice and gesture addressed to an audience, most often
in a specific location and with a unique setting. This
entertainment event rests on the delivery of a thing promised and
expected - a particular and unique performance witnessed by
spectators who have come to the site of the performance for this
very reason. To witness theatre is to take into account the
performance, but it is also to take into account the printed text
as readable object and a written proposition. In this book,
Christian Biet and Christophe Triau focus on the practical,
theoretical and historical positions that the spectator and the
reader have had in relation to the locations that they frequent and
the texts that they handle. They adopt two approaches: analysing
the spectacle in its theatrical and historical context in an
attempt to seek out the principles and paradigms of approaching the
theatre experience on one hand, and analysing the dramaturgy of a
production in order to establish lines of interpretation and how to
read, represent and stage a text, on the other. This approach
allows us to better understand the ties that link those who
participate in the theatre to the practitioners who create
theatrical entertainment.
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What is the Theatre? (Paperback)
Christian Biet, Christophe Triau; Translated by Jason Allen-Paisant, Joanne Brueton
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R1,315
Discovery Miles 13 150
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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What is the Theatre? is one of the most coherent and systematic
descriptions and analyses of the theatre yet compiled. Theatre is,
above all, spectacle. It is a fleeting performance, delivered by
actors and intended for spectators. It is a work of the body, an
exercise of voice and gesture addressed to an audience, most often
in a specific location and with a unique setting. This
entertainment event rests on the delivery of a thing promised and
expected - a particular and unique performance witnessed by
spectators who have come to the site of the performance for this
very reason. To witness theatre is to take into account the
performance, but it is also to take into account the printed text
as readable object and a written proposition. In this book,
Christian Biet and Christophe Triau focus on the practical,
theoretical and historical positions that the spectator and the
reader have had in relation to the locations that they frequent and
the texts that they handle. They adopt two approaches: analysing
the spectacle in its theatrical and historical context in an
attempt to seek out the principles and paradigms of approaching the
theatre experience on one hand, and analysing the dramaturgy of a
production in order to establish lines of interpretation and how to
read, represent and stage a text, on the other. This approach
allows us to better understand the ties that link those who
participate in the theatre to the practitioners who create
theatrical entertainment.
"Jason Allen's A Meditation on Fire is a fierce, courageous
collection of poems, a ferocious, yet meditative mission to dig for
the truth beneath the surface of all that it means to be human.
Allen's poetry is gritty and lyrical, profound and sardonic, and
his use of language is as precise as a scalpel. Allen is willing to
risk being vulnerable while exploring the darkest moments of his
life, and all the while he straddles the line between compassion
and desire. A must read for anyone who loves poetry, and for those
who don't yet know they love poetry. What an amazing, powerful
book!" --Maria Mazziotti Gillan, American Book Award Winner
This book is just a token of what I truly believe in, And what you
shall soon see Are my thoughts now and foreverAnd it''s only the
beginning.So please journey with me if you willAs I become very
robust while offering much hostilityThru the way of debatfulness.So
from JP and DI to all of youI sayBe real, stay strong, work hardAnd
always trust in the LordHope you enjoy...
Smart Legal Contracts: Computable Law in Theory and Practice is a
landmark investigation into one of the most important trends at the
interface of law and technology: the effort to harness emerging
digital technologies to change the way that parties form and
perform contracts. While developments in distributed ledger
technology have brought the topic of 'smart contracts' into the
mainstream of legal attention, this volume takes a broader approach
to ask how computers can be used in the contracting process. This
book assesses how contractual promises are expressed in software
and how code-based artefacts can be incorporated within more
conventional legal structures. With incisive contributions from
members of the judiciary, legal scholars, practitioners, and
computer scientists, this book sets out to frame the borders of an
emerging area of law and start a more productive dialogue between
the various disciplines involved in the evolution of contracts as
software. It provides the first step towards a more disciplined
approach to computational contracts that avoids the techno-legal
ambiguities of 'smart contracts' and reveals an emerging taxonomy
of approaches to encoding contracts in whole or in part. Conceived
and written during a time when major legal systems began to engage
with the advent of contracts in computable form, and aimed at a
fundamental level of enquiry, this collection will provide
essential insight into future trends and will provide a point of
orientation for future scholarship and innovation.
A call for the extension of hybrid learning urges that it become
not just a quick fix or a boon for the bottom line, but an
educational mode that reenvisions quality teaching and learning for
the 21st century. Hybrid Learning: The Perils and Promise of
Blending Online and Face-to-Face Instruction in Higher Education is
an in-depth exploration of a new learning mode that could radically
change higher education, incorporating emerging trends in
technology and multimedia use-including online gaming, social
networking, and other Web 2.0 applications-to create engaging and
dynamic learning environments. Laying out fundamental challenges
facing higher education today, this book shows how hybrid
instruction can be designed and implemented to deliver excellent
educational value in flexible modes and at moderate costs
well-suited to the circumstances of many students and institutions.
The book lays out the characteristic profiles of students who are
most likely to benefit from and perform well in a hybrid learning
environment, as well as the features and practices of hybrid
courses most likely to produce positive learning outcomes. It also
specifies the obligations of faculty in designing and delivering
best-practice hybrid courses and the support and policy obligations
of institutions. Challenging prima-facie assumptions about hybrid
learning, the author promotes it as nothing less than an
opportunity to reenvision education for the 21st century. Written
in an easy-to-read, bullet-point style Gives practical, real-world
examples of the successful diversity of hybrid learning programs,
drawn from the author's personal hybrid teaching experience and
interviews with faculty and students Includes specific examples of
leading-edge applications, like the virtual world of Second Life
and 3D web browsing with Exit Reality, which could inform
successful hybrid course design Provides interesting and relevant
anecdotes throughout
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