Literature, Drama & Film
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The making of an artist. Creating the Irishman Micheal MacLiammoir
(The Liffey Press, 2015)The Making of an Artist is a fascinating portrayal of the formative years of Micheál MacLiammóir, actor, playwright, artist, linguist, raconteur and co-founder of the Gate Theatre. Born in Cockney London and christened ... -
The knight on his quest : symbolic patterns of transition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(Associated University Presses, 1996)This book offers an integrated interpretative analysis of the major thematic aspects of the English fourteenth-century romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The chief aim of author Piotr Sadowski is to look at the ... -
Systems theory as an approach to the study of literature : origins and functions of literature
(The Edwin Mellen Press, 1999)This text offers an alternative account of literary reception as communications-based. It seeks an alternative to post-Saussurean theories of language and discourse. The author makes a case for literature as a form of ... -
Dynamism of character in Shakespeare's mature tragedies
(Associated University Presses, 2003)Dynamism of character in Shakespeare's mature tragedies applies the systems theory of character to the analysis of the psychological and dramatic consistence of the main characters from Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. -
Gender and literature : a systems study
(University Press of America, Inc., 2001)A Systems Study addresses the notion of gender as a "social construct," and presents evolutionary reasons for human psycho-behavioural differentiation along the lines of sexual dimorphism of the reproductive and the related ... -
From interaction to symbol : a systems view of the evolution of signs and communication
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009)Sadowski's book offers a comprehensive model of communication based on deductive formulations of systems theory supported by evolutionary thinking. The systems model generates the following types of communication: direct, ...
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