Chinese Shadows
Author: Simon Leys
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780140047875
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Simon Leys
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780140047875
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Publisher: Gregori Navarro
Published: 2022-09-10
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book you are holding in your hands is a dramatization of one of Plato's most widely read Socratic dialogues. After the "Apology of Socrates", published in this same collection, we thought it necessary to adapt this work since it is its continuation. In this dialogue, and after Socrates' trial and condemnation to death narrated in the "Apology of Socrates", his friend Crito maintains the hope of the old philosopher's salvation and makes him a proposal. This work becomes an educational resource to work in the classroom in a multidisciplinary way: we will work on oratory, memorization, emphasis and dramatization of reading, philosophy, ancient history, theatrical performance, handicrafts, group work, structuring tasks and functions,... This book is designed to be read and played.
Author: Gregori Navarro
Publisher: Gregori Navarro
Published:
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book you are holding in your hands is a dramatization of two fables attributed to the Ancient Greek author Aesop. Aesop's fables are short stories that leave us with a moral with values and rules of conduct. They have survived from Ancient Greece to the present day and most of them are still relevant today. This adaptation of the fables becomes at the same time an educational resource to work in class in a multidisciplinary way. This book is designed to be read and played with.
Author: Fan-Pen Li Chen
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0773531971
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan-Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. She argues how a traditional folk theatre reflected and subverted Chinese popular culture.
Author: Martin Quigley
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-07-21
Total Pages: 161
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The art of "magic shadows" which just before the dawn of the twentieth century evolved into the modern motion picture, was born three centuries ago, in Rome. Just at the appointed hour for Kircher's show, a few distinguished Monsignori, in flowing purple were driven to the entrance in their carriages with a mounted escort. Nothing like Kircher's show had ever been presented before. He had chained light and shadow, but the suspicion was held by some of the spectators that there was a dark magic about it all and that Kircher had dabbled in the black arts.
Author: William Vaughan
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 1912706415
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What's the difference between a cast shadow and a form shadow? Why do shadows become increasingly important in Western art? Can we only ever see shadows, not objects themselves, as Plato claimed? In this beautiful little book, printmaker and History of Art Professor William Vaughan presents the history of shadows, from their emergence in the visuals arts to their association with death and the subconscious. Get ready! You may never look at the world the same way again! "e;Fascinating"e; FINANCIAL TIMES. "e;Beautiful"e; LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS. "e;Rich and Artful"e; THE LANCET. "e;Genuinely mind-expanding"e; FORTEAN TIMES. "e;Excellent"e; NEW SCIENTIST. "e;Stunning"e; NEW YORK TIMES. Small books, big ideas.
Author: Harold B. Segel
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014-03-17
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1443857955
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Justinus Kerner (1786–1862) was one of the most celebrated figures in nineteenth-century German culture. A physician by training, he was also a leading member of the Swabian Romantic circle of poets which included, among others, Ludwig Uhland and Gustav Schwab. Kerner’s international fame rests primarily on his contributions to the investigation of paranormal phenomena. The most important of these was his exhaustive case study, Die Seherin von Prevorst (The Seeress of Prevorst, 1829). The book was translated into English in 1849 by the English writer, Catherine Crowe (1803–76). Until the present, this has been the only work of Kerner available in English. Apart from his many scientific publications and his poetry, Kerner was also the author of one of the more intriguing literary works of German Romanticism, Die Reiseschatten (Travel Shadows, 1811). Ostensibly an account of his travels through Germany and Austria following his graduation from the University of Tübingen, the book is a highly imaginative, almost surreal concoction of Romantic, sentimental, grotesque, satirical, and Old German folkloric elements. Attributed by Kerner to an itinerant “shadow performer” named Lux, Travel Shadows was inspired by the tradition of “Chinese Shadows” (ombres chinoises) and represents Kerner’s attempt to create a travel narrative in the form of a grandiose shadow show. In the introduction to his translation of Travel Shadows – the first in English – Harold B. Segel situates Kerner’s work in the context of the emergence of a German shadow show tradition in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.