Con "La confesiones de un pequeño filósofo" cierra (Azorín) en 1904, la trilogía autobiográfica iniciada en "La voluntad" (1902) y continuada en... "Antonio Azorín" (1903)

Creador visceral, obsesivo, subterraneo, de voz estrangulada y perturbadora densidad, CESAR VALLEJO (1892-1938) forma, junto con Pablo Neruda y Vicente... Huidobro, la triada indiscutible de grandes poetas hispanoamericanos de la primera mitad del siglo xx. Acompanada de un iluminador prologo a cargo de Jose Miguel Oviedo, responsable asimismo de su seleccion, esta ANTOLOGIA POETICA -que recoge integro el desgarrado poemario sobre nuestra guerra civil Espana, aparta de mi este caliz- ofrece una muestra inmejorable de la obra del genial poeta peruano que tan honda huella ha ejercido en la mayoria de los poetas de las ultimas decadas. En esta misma coleccion: Antologia poetica de Pablo Neruda (L 5314 y L5315) y Poesia y Poetica (1911-1948) de Vicente Huidobro.

Chekhov's life was one long battle with his dependants and with the tuberculosis that was to kill him at the age of 44. This biography aims to show him... in the heroism of his short life - at times made hell by a monstrous father, possessive sister and delinquent elder brothers. The drama of Chekhov's life took him all over Russia and the world. Using documents and letters, this work investigates the emotions, conflicts and experiences which Chekhov transmuted into his stories and plays.

With the onslaught of changes brought on by the dissolution of the Soviet Union and other current events, this long-awaited revision provides a... spectacular recreation of a historical culture through a dazzling interplay of text, maps, and illustrations. Linking geography, history, archaeology, anthropology, and the arts, this volume presents a captivating survey of Russian civilization from prehistory to the present dayone that reveals Russia in all its variety and uniqueness.

Jim Volz is one of America's leading theatre consultants with more than three decades of work with theatre, dance, music, museum and arts center... management. In this book Jim Volz brings his expertise to anyone who works in arts management, from novices to middle managers to executive directors. How to Run a Theater is a unique, dynamic, and savvy guide to building an arts institution that works. Drawing on more than 30 years of experience, here is practical advice on a variety of management skills: Financial Management; Personnel Management; Fundraising Development; Board of Trustees Communications; and Marketing & Audience Development. This new edition is thoroughly updated and revised and now includes a Board of Trustee Contract, new budget exercise with ticket income formulae and the use of social networking for marketing and fundraising.

Anton Chekhov revolutionized Russian theater through his inimitable portrayals of characters faced with complex moral dilemmas.This Norton Critical... Edition includes five of Chekhov’s major plays—Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard—and three early one-act farces that inform his later work—The Bear, The Wedding, and The Celebration. Laurence Senelick’s masterful translations closely preserve Chekhov’s singular style—his abundant jokes and literary allusions and his careful use of phrase repetition to bind the plays together. "Letters" is the largest collection of Chekhov’s commentary on his plays ever to appear in an English-language edition. "Criticism" includes eleven essays by leading European and Russian Chekhov scholars, most appearing in English for the first time, including those by Boris Zingerman, Maria Deppermann, and Lev Shestor. This volume also provides discussion of Chekhov’s plays by some of the twentieth century’s great directors, including Konstantin Stanislavsky, Peter Brook, and Mark Rozovsky. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

The thirty-four stories in this volume span Chekhov’s creative career.They present a wide spectrum of comic and serious themes and a variety of... techniques. (His short novels, available in another Norton volume, Seven Short Novels by Chekhov, have been omitted.) Two of the stories have been translated for this edition by Professor Matlaw; the other translations, by Constance Garnett, Ivy Litvinov, and Marian Fell, have been revised in accordance with contemporary usage. Footnotes have been supplied wherever necessary to explain peculiarities of Russian life and the historical era in which Chekhov lived and wrote. "Backgrounds" includes a rich selection of Chekhov’s letters, in new translations by Professor Matlaw, and Gorky’s celebrated essay on Chekhov, translated by Ivy Litvinov. The critical essays offer general views of Chekhov’s art and achievement and detailed analyses of particular stories. The critics are D. S. Mirsky, A. B. Derman (whose essay has been translated from the Russian especially for this edition), Renato Poggioli, Gleb Struve, Donald Rayfield, Karl Kramer, Virginia Llewellyn Smith, and Nils Åke Nilsson. A Selected Bibliography directs readers to resources for further study.

Wendy KesselmanFull Length, Drama New Revised Version Characters: 4 female Combination Interior Set Winner of the Playbill Award. This extraordinary... drama, produced to acclaim at the Actors Theatre of Louisville originally, and at NYC's Second Stage is about a celebrated 1930's French murder case, in which two maids sisters were convicted of murdering their employer and her daughter. This very cinematically structured work explores the motivations which led the sisters to commit murder. "A crucible of psychosexual horror." N.Y. Times "A subtle, almost tender study of four lonely women whose strange and complex relationship ends in an outrage of violence. . . . A haunting beauty of a play." N.Y. Post

For readers encountering Gramsci for the first time, Steve Jones covers key elements of his thought through detailed discussion and studies the... historical context of the theorist's thought, offers examples of putting Gramsci's ideas into practice in the analysis of contemporary culture and evaluates responses to his work. Including British, European and American examples, key topics covered here include: * culture* hegemony* intellectuals* crisis* Americanization. Gramsci's work invites people to think beyond simplistic oppositions by recasting ideological domination as hegemony: the ability of a ruling power's values to live in the minds and lives of its subalterns as a spontaneous expression of their own interests Is power simply a matter of domination and resistance? Can a ruling power be vulnerable? Can subordinates find their resitance neutralized? and What is the role of culture in this? These questions, and many more are tackled here in this invaluable introduction to Gramsci.  

This book provides the first detailed account of Gramsci's work in the context of current critical and socio-cultural debates. Renate Holub argues that... Gramsci was ahead of his time in offering a theory of art, politics and cultural production. Gramsci's achievement is discussed particularly in relation to the Frankfurt School (Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, Bloch, Habermas), to Brecht's theoretical writings and to thinkers in the phenomenological tradition especially Merleau-Ponty. She argues for Gramsci's continuing relevance at a time of retreat from Marxist positions on the postmodern left. Antonio Gramsci is distinguished by its range of philosophical grasp, its depth of specialized historical scholarship, and its keen sense of Gramsci's position as a crucial figure in the politics of contemporary cultural theory.

Antonio Gramsci (1891--1937) was one of the most original political thinkers in Western Marxism and an exceptional intellectual. Arrested and imprisoned... by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci died before fully regaining his freedom, yet he wrote extensive letters while incarcerated, rich with insight into the physical and psychological tortures of prison. In meticulous detail, Gramsci records how political prisoners, himself included, contend with the fear of illness and death and the rules and regulations that threaten to efface their individuality. Forming an incomparable link between Gramsci's intellectual passion and his emotional vulnerability, Letters from Prison shows a man reconstructing his life while being separated from it, struggling to recapture the primary relationships that once defined his identity. Frank Rosengarten divides more than four hundred Gramsci letters into two companion volumes, complete with a chronology of the thinker's crucial life experiences, an introduction that sheds light on the main experiences and themes in the letters, biographical notes on his correspondents, and a bibliography of works cited in his letters.

The cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) embodies - more than that of any otherdirector - the substance of European art cinema. Antonioni's... films are intensely stylized, stylish,demanding, beautiful, daring, frustrating, and gratifying. Antonioni died on 30 July 2007, eerilythe exact same day that his art cinema rival Ingmar Bergman also passed away. Antonioni'sdeath - perhaps too conveniently - seemed to mark a terminal point in film history. Moreimportantly, his death brought home immediately the need to reassess Antonioni's contributionto world cinema.This collection of new essays by leading film scholarsaddresses Michelangelo Antonionias apre-eminent figure in European art cinema, explores his continuing influence and legacy, and engages with his ability to both interpret and shape ideas of modernity and modern cinema.