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The Rhythm of Space and the Sound of Time examines the place of Chekhov’s Technique in contemporary acting pedagogy and practice. Cynthia Ashperger answers the questions: What are the reasons behind the technique’s current resurgence? How has this cohesive and holistic training been brought into today’s mainstream acting training? What separates this technique from the other currently popular methods? Ashperger offers an analysis of the complex philosophical influences that shaped Chekhov’s ideas about this psycho-physical approach to acting. Chekhov’s five guiding principles are introduced to demonstrate how eastern ideas and practices have been integrated into this western technique and how they have continued to develop on both theoretical and practical levels in contemporary pedagogy, thereby rendering it intercultural. The volume also focuses on the work of several contemporary teachers of the technique associated with Michael Chekhov International Association (MICHA). Current teacher training is described as well as the different modes of hybridization of Chekhov’s technique with other current methods. Contemporary practical experiments and some fifty exercises at both beginner and intermediate/advanced levels are presented through analysis, examples, student journals and case studies, delineating the sequences in which units are taught and specifying the exercises that differ from those in Chekhov’s original writing. This book is for practitioners as well as students of the theatre.

Acting --- Study and teaching. --- Technique. --- Chekhov, Michael,

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This long-awaited and much-anticipated volume comprises a carefully collated collection of Robert Louis Jackson's essays on Chekhov.

Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Biblical references. --- Chekhov. --- Close reading. --- Interpretation. --- Late 19th-century Russian literature. --- Non-dogmatic. --- Short story. --- Subtext.

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"Antosha and Levitasha is the first book in English devoted to the complex relationship between Anton Chekhov and Isaac Levitan, one of Russia's greatest landscape painters. Outside of Russia, a general lack of familiarity with Levitan's life and art has undermined an appreciation of the cultural significance of his friendship with Chekhov. Serge Gregory's highly readable study attempts to fill that gap for Western readers by examining a friendship that may have vacillated between periods of affection and animosity, but always reflected an unwavering shared aesthetic. In Russia, where entire rooms of galleries in Moscow and St. Petersburg are devoted to Levitan's paintings, the lives of the famous writer and the equally famous artist have long been tied together. To those familiar with the work of both men, it is evident that Levitan's "landscapes of mood" have much in common with the way that Chekhov's characters perceive nature as a reflection of their emotional state. Gregory focuses on three overarching themes: the artists' similar approach to depicting landscape; their romantic and social rivalries within their circle of friends, which included many of Moscow's leading cultural figures; and the influence of Levitan's personal life on Chekhov's stories and plays. He emphasizes the facts of Levitan's life and his place in late nineteenth-century Russian art, particularly with respect to his dual loyalties to the competing Itinerant and World of Art movements. Accessible and engaging, Antosha and Levitasha will appeal to scholars and general readers interested in art history, late nineteenth-century Russian culture, and biographies"--

Alphabetical cataloguing --- Painters --- Authors --- Levitan, Isaak Ilʹich, --- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, --- Friends and associates.

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"Chekhov's keen powers of observation have been remarked by both memoirists who knew him well and scholars who approach him only through the written record and across the distance of many decades. To apprehend Chekhov means seeing how Chekhov sees, and the author's remarkable vision is understood as deriving from his occupational or professional training and identity. But we have failed to register, let alone understand, just what a central concern for Chekhov himself, and how deeply problematic, were precisely issues of seeing and being seen."-from the IntroductionMichael C. Finke explodes a century of critical truisms concerning Chekhov's objective eye and what being a physician gave him as a writer in a book that foregrounds the deeply subjective and self-reflexive aspects of his fiction and drama. In exploring previously unrecognized seams between the author's life and his verbal art, Finke profoundly alters and deepens our understanding of Chekhov's personality and behaviors, provides startling new interpretations of a broad array of Chekhov's texts, and fleshes out Chekhov's simultaneous pride in his identity as a physician and devastating critique of turn-of-the-century medical practices and ideologies. Seeing Chekhov is essential reading for students of Russian literature, devotees of the short story and modern drama, and anyone interested in the intersection of literature, psychology, and medicine.

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. --- Dreams in literature. --- Evolution (Biology) in literature. --- Self in literature. --- Identity in literature --- Darwin, Charles, --- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, --- Influence. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Chekhov's Children explores Anton Chekhov's stories - dating from his early writings in the 1880s - as a distinct body of work unified by the theme of maturation and by the creation of a literary model of childhood.

Children in literature. --- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, --- Characters. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 1800-1899 --- Russia. --- Chekhov. --- K D Ushinsky. --- Leo Tolstoy. --- Russian education. --- Russian peasant culture. --- S T Aksakov. --- acquisition knowledge. --- child characters. --- child psychology. --- childhood. --- creativity. --- developmental psychology. --- dramatic sketch. --- early. --- games. --- history. --- humanities. --- humor magazines. --- literature. --- medicine. --- psychology. --- short stories. --- trauma.