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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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"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.

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

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This study spans, in a single monograph, the entire life and work of the Russian philosopher Lev Shestov (1866-1938). It offers keys to understanding his thought, while also tracing the historical itinerary of his work. Shestov’s thought is not only interesting in itself, as a “philosophy fighting against philosophy,” but also because it reveals an entire world of cultural connections in its extraordinarily keen exploration of other “souls.” The reader will find in Shestov some of the sharpest analyses of authors such as Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Tolstoi, Dostoevskii, Luther, Plotinus, Pascal, Kierkegaard and many others. This study will better determine the controversial and fascinating philosopher’s place in the history of Russian and Western thought.

Shestov, Lev,-1866-1938. --- Shestov, Lev, --- Chekhov. --- Dostoevsky. --- Ibsen. --- Jewish thought. --- Judaism. --- Kierkegaard. --- Lev Shestov. --- Merezhkovskii. --- Nietzsche. --- Nihilism. --- Russian philosophy. --- Shakespeare. --- Sologub. --- Tolstoy. --- Turgenev.

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Breaking Free from Death examines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately, about their own inevitable finitude. What contributes to creative death are not just crippling diseases that make man defenseless in the face of death, and not just the arguably universal fear of death but, equally important, the innumerable impositions on the part of various outsiders. Many conflicts in the lives of Rylkova's subjects arose not from their opposition to the existing political regimes but from their interactions with like-minded and supporting intellectuals, friends, and relatives. The book describes the lives and choices that concrete individuals and-by extrapolation-their literary characters must face in order to preserve their singularity and integrity while attempting to achieve fame, greatness, and success.

Authors, Russian --- Death in literature. --- Death --- A Confession. --- About Chekhov. --- Anna Karenina. --- Dante. --- Gogol. --- Liberation of Tolstoy. --- Meyerhold. --- Psychology of Creative Personality;Death;Creativity;Sustainability;Chekhov;Bunin;Tolstoy. --- Russian drama. --- Russian literature. --- The Cherry Orchard. --- The Death of Ivan Ilych. --- The Decembrists. --- The Kreutzer Sonata. --- The Life of Arseniev. --- The Seagull. --- The Steppe. --- Uncle Vanya. --- War and Peace. --- Writer's Block. --- anxieties. --- existentialism. --- hypochondria. --- letters. --- literary theory. --- mortality. --- psychoanalysis. --- psychology. --- the Divine Comedy. --- writing. --- Attitudes. --- Psychological aspects. --- Tolstoy, Leo, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Bunin. --- Chekhov. --- Creativity. --- Death. --- Psychology of Creative Personality. --- Sustainability. --- Tolstoy. --- Writer’s Block.