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In this book leading scholars come together to provide a
comprehensive, wide-ranging overview of tragedy in theatre and
other media from 1920 to the present. The 20th century is often
considered to have witnessed the death of tragedy as a theatrical
genre, but it was marked by many tragic events and historical
catastrophes, from two world wars and genocide to the proliferation
of nuclear weapons and the anticipation and onset of climate
change. The authors in this volume wrestle with this paradox and
consider the degree to which the definitions, forms and media of
tragedy were transformed in the modern period and how far the
tragic tradition—updated in performance—still spoke to 20th-
and 21st-century challenges. While theater remains the primary
focus of investigation in this strikingly illustrated book, the
essays also cover tragic representation—often re-mediated,
fragmented and provocatively questioned—in film, art and
installation, photography, fiction and creative non-fiction,
documentary reporting, political theory and activism. Since 24/7
news cycles travel fast and modern crises cross borders and are
reported across the globe more swiftly than in previous centuries,
this volume includes intercultural encounters, various forms of
hybridity, and postcolonial tragic representations. Each chapter
takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of
performance and circulation; communities of production and
consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual and
myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender
and sexuality.
In this book leading scholars come together to provide a
comprehensive, wide-ranging overview of tragedy in theatre and
other media from 1920 to the present. The 20th century is often
considered to have witnessed the death of tragedy as a theatrical
genre, but it was marked by many tragic events and historical
catastrophes, from two world wars and genocide to the proliferation
of nuclear weapons and the anticipation and onset of climate
change. The authors in this volume wrestle with this paradox and
consider the degree to which the definitions, forms and media of
tragedy were transformed in the modern period and how far the
tragic tradition-updated in performance-still spoke to 20th- and
21st-century challenges. While theater remains the primary focus of
investigation in this strikingly illustrated book, the essays also
cover tragic representation-often re-mediated, fragmented and
provocatively questioned-in film, art and installation,
photography, fiction and creative non-fiction, documentary
reporting, political theory and activism. Since 24/7 news cycles
travel fast and modern crises cross borders and are reported across
the globe more swiftly than in previous centuries, this volume
includes intercultural encounters, various forms of hybridity, and
postcolonial tragic representations. Each chapter takes a different
theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and
circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy
and social theory; religion, ritual and myth; politics of city and
nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
Important reforms are taking place in children's services in the
UK, with a move towards greater integration. In England, Scotland
and Sweden, early childhood education and care, childcare for older
children, and schools are now the responsibility of education
departments. This book is the first to examine, cross-nationally,
this major shift in policy. work best, which welfare states are
most effective and the future role of schools; examines why and how
the three countries have integrated departmental responsibility for
these major children's services and explores the very different
consequences; through cross-national comparison, it offers new
perspectives on the integration of children's services and the
different ways in which it can be taken forward; addresses changing
understandings of the child and childhood in each country; provides
an invaluable understanding of current and possible future changes,
including choices to be made about policy, provision and the
workforce. implemented, this book is essential reading for
practitioners, managers, politicians, trainers and researchers in
children's services, including schools, early years, school-age
childcare, leisure and recreation, child welfare and health.
This book provides a narrative account of the experiences of twenty
former scholarship students from historically disadvantaged
communities who attended elite public and private secondary
schools. It draws on in-depth, one-on-one semi-structured
interviews conducted with former scholarship recipients who were
between the ages of 19 and 24 years at the time of the interviews.
Various themes are explored, specifically focusing on elite
schooling in relation to the experiences and navigational practices
of the scholarship recipients and the adjustments that they felt
they needed to make in order to fit into the elite school space.The
book analyses and discusses the reflective experiences of students
who were awarded a scholarship to attend an elite secondary school.
It reveals that accepting the gift of a scholarship is far more
complex, multi-layered, and at times harsh and even painful for the
individual recipients than is possibly realized by those involved
in this practice. This book contributes to academic educational
debates within the sociology of education, elite schools and
schooling in the post-apartheid South African context.
It has been over twenty years since the people of Scotland, Wales
and Northern Ireland voted for devolution. Over that time, the
devolved legislatures have established themselves and matured their
approach to governance. At different times and for different
reasons, each has put wellbeing at the heart of their approach -
codifying their values and goals within wellbeing frameworks. This
open access book explores, for the first time, why each set their
goal as improving wellbeing and how they balance the core elements
of societal wellbeing (economic, social and environmental
outcomes). Do the frameworks represent a genuine attempt to think
differently about how devolved government can plan and organise
public services? And if so, what early indications are there of the
impact is this having on people's lives?
From the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental
warning signs of climate change, this book reflects on the crises
and terrifying events of the early 21st century and argues that a
knowledge of tragedy from the works of Sophocles to Shakespeare to
Samuel Beckett can help us understand them. Jennifer Wallace offers
a cultural analysis of the tragic events of the past two decades
with reference to a litany of key dramatic texts, including
Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripides' Hecuba, Iphigenia in Aulis, Trojan
Women and Bacchae, Homer's Iliad, Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean and
Enemy of the People, and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Macbeth and
King Lear, among others.
"Choosing Your Angle of Defense" ...is a revolutionary and simple
way to defend and position yourself without second guessing your
angle of defense. In other words, if you can get to the optimum
tactical position while protecting properly, it makes NO difference
what type of strike or kick an attacker throws at you. People tend
to hyper-focus or attempt to anticipate or "guess" which hand or
foot technique an assailant might deploy. This causes problems with
reaction times, as well as other issues, when the attacker doesn't
do what was expected. This often causes the defender to "freeze up"
and delays his or her reaction time. This ICATT (Immediate
Combative Assault Techniques & Tactics)system of movement
teaches you to focus on the angle of defense and not worry about
the assailant's attack. Why? Because if you move and protect
properly, and place yourself effectively, it will not matter what
strikes your opponent throws. Learn to effectively position
yourself in the best place for defending, controlling, taking down
and/or handcuffing an assailant without worrying about what strike
he will use and from which side. You will "choose your angle of
defense" based on surrounding conditions, instead of waiting for
your opponent's strike to determine how you might move. Chief
Instructor Wallace has over 15 years of experience in combative
street defense tactics and has evolved the ICATT System to simplify
the angles of defense and attack to your advantage. If you can
master the concepts contained in these pages, all defensive and
counter movements become easier.
In this collection of poems and photographs, Jennifer Wallace
blends two art forms to capture glimpses of a city: its history,
its pride, its squalor, its nature, and its people. Through
graceful verse and haunting photographs, Wallace creates a
psychoecology of this city, Baltimore, that explore the sights,
sounds, and flavors of the its urban ecology. Wallace teaches at
the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is a poetry editor at
The Cortland Review and a founding editor of Toadlily Press.
Rooted in the grit of urban Baltimore and the forests of rural
Massachusetts, these poems remind us that life's tensions and
polarities are energies we carry within ourselves. These are poems
of witness and commentary, conversation and meditation. They offer
moments of close looking, and of looking away; of loving, and of
bungled attempts to be more loving. They call us to look long and
hard- and generously -at our lives. Written with radiant honesty
and fierce tenderness, they suggest a path of inner discovery where
mystery awaits us in the ordinary.
Must-have guides designed to introduce students and teachers to key
topics and authors. Tragedy is the art-form created to confront the
most difficult experiences we face: death, loss, injustice,
thwarted passion, despair. From ancient Greek theatre up to the
most recent plays, playwrights have found, in tragic drama, a means
to seek explanation for disaster. But tragedy is also a word we
continually encounter in the media, to denote an event which is
simply devastating in its emotional power. This introduction
explores the relationship between tragic experience and tragic
representation. After giving an overview of the tragic theatre
canon - including chapters on the Greeks, Shakespeare, Ibsen,
Chekhov, post-colonial drama, and Beckett - it also looks at the
contribution which philosophers have brought to this subject,
before ranging across other art-forms and areas of debate. The book
is unique in its chronological range, and brings a wide spectrum of
examples, from both literature and life, into the discussion of
this emotional and frequently controversial subject.
When Jennifer Wallace travelled round Greece as a student, hiking
through olive groves to hunt out the stones of old temples and lost
cities, she became fascinated by archaeology. It was magical. It
was absurd. Give an archaeologist a few rocks and, like a master
storyteller, he could bring another world to life. Give him a vague
hunch about the past, and he was prepared to spend hours raking
through the soil in search of proof.From the plain of Troy to the
Titanic, and from Britain's Stonehenge to Ground Zero in New York,
Digging the Dirt explores the excavation sites that have exerted
the strongest pull on the public imagination. Some sites, in which
bones are indistinguishable from dust, have driven archaeologists
to despair. Other sites haunt poets with memories of loss and
romance. All reveal the relevance of archaeology to our deepest
cultural anxieties.Passionate and intelligent, Digging the Dirt
engages with the work of philosophers and writers who have been
stirred by the life below the ground, while never losing sight of
the pressing demands of archaeologists today. In a world of
postmodern spin, Wallace calls for a renewed sense of the poetics
of depth and shows how excavation can play a vital role in bringing
powerful political forces to account.
From the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental
warning signs of climate change, this book reflects on the crises
and terrifying events of the early 21st century and argues that a
knowledge of tragedy from the works of Sophocles to Shakespeare to
Samuel Beckett can help us understand them. Jennifer Wallace offers
a cultural analysis of the tragic events of the past two decades
with reference to a litany of key dramatic texts, including
Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripides' Hecuba, Iphigenia in Aulis, Trojan
Women and Bacchae, Homer's Iliad, Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean and
Enemy of the People, and Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Macbeth and
King Lear, among others.
Tragedy is the art-form created to confront the most difficult
experiences we face: death, loss, injustice, thwarted passion,
despair. From ancient Greek theatre up to the most recent plays,
playwrights have found, in tragic drama, a means to seek
explanation for disaster. But tragedy is also a word we continually
encounter in the media, to denote an event which is simply
devastating in its emotional power. This introduction explores the
relationship between tragic experience and tragic representation.
After giving an overview of the tragic theatre canon - including
chapters on the Greeks, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, post-colonial
drama, and Beckett - it also looks at the contribution which
philosophers have brought to this subject, before ranging across
other art-forms and areas of debate. The book is unique in its
chronological range, and brings a wide spectrum of examples, from
both literature and life, into the discussion of this emotional and
frequently controversial subject.
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