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The Cambridge encyclopedia of state actors and acting
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ISBN: 9780521769549 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge university press

Shakespeare on the German stage
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ISBN: 0521344646 9780521344647 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

Wagner and the Romantic hero
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ISBN: 9780511481741 9780521820080 9780521153447 9780511210617 0511210612 0521820081 0511212380 9780511212383 0511214197 9780511214196 0511481748 0511215983 9780511215988 1280516003 9781280516009 0511210612 0521820081 0521153441 1107145341 0511314965 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Few major artists have aroused the ire and adulation of successive generations as persistently as Richard Wagner. He was the centre of controversy during his lifetime and yet, when he died, he was the most idolized man in Germany. The situation has not changed much since then. Simon Williams explores the reasons for this adulation and antipathy by examining an aspect that may be a fundamental cause for this radical division in the reception of Wagner's work, the phenomenon of heroism. Williams analyses this heroism as a function of Wagner's theatre and music, beginning with a definition and examination of the concept of the heroic. The book also discusses all thirteen stage works by Wagner and the phenomenon of heroism and Wagner's adaptation of the figure of the Romantic hero. Williams offers a theatrical, musical, and cultural re-evaluation of one of the most enduring figures in the arts.


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Disfluency and Proficiency in Second Language Speech Production
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ISBN: 9783031124884 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book explores the concept of disfluency in speech production, particularly as it occurs in the context of second language acquisition. Drawing on examples from learner speech at three levels (beginner, intermediate and advanced), the author argues that acquiring target language norms for performing disfluency is essential to an individual being recognized as fluent in a language by fellow-speakers. Starting with a survey of the psycholinguistic research in this area, he then applies a sociolinguistic lens to examine how a learner's social and educational background impacts the types of disfluencies in their speech. This book will be of interest to readers in fields such as (applied) linguistics and second language acquisition, psychology and education. Simon Williams is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex, UK. As an English language teacher, his work involves communicative activities with second language learners from a wide range of teaching and learning backgrounds, who respond in contrasting ways.

Richard Wagner and festival theatre.
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ISBN: 0313274355 Year: 1994 Publisher: Westport (Conn.) : Praeger,

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Disfluency and Proficiency in Second Language Speech Production
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Disfluency and Proficiency in Second Language Speech Production
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ISBN: 9783031124884 9783031124877 9783031124891 9783031124907 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

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This book explores the concept of disfluency in speech production, particularly as it occurs in the context of second language acquisition. Drawing on examples from learner speech at three levels (beginner, intermediate and advanced), the author argues that acquiring target language norms for performing disfluency is essential to an individual being recognized as fluent in a language by fellow-speakers. Starting with a survey of the psycholinguistic research in this area, he then applies a sociolinguistic lens to examine how a learner's social and educational background impacts the types of disfluencies in their speech. This book will be of interest to readers in fields such as (applied) linguistics and second language acquisition, psychology and education. Simon Williams is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex, UK. As an English language teacher, his work involves communicative activities with second language learners from a wide range of teaching and learning backgrounds, who respond in contrasting ways.

German actors of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: idealism, romanticism, and realism
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ISBN: 0313243654 Year: 1985 Publisher: Westport, Conn.

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A history of German theatre
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ISBN: 9780521833691 0521833698 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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Covering German-language theatre from the Middle Ages to the present day, this study demonstrates how and why theatre became so important in German-speaking countries. Written by leading international scholars of German theatre, chapters cover all aspects of theatrical performance, including acting, directing, play-writing, scenic design and theatre architecture. The book argues that theatre is more central to the artistic life of German-speaking countries than anywhere else in the world. Relating German-language theatre to its social and intellectual context, the History demonstrates how theatre has often been used as a political tool. It challenges the idea that German theatre was undeveloped in contrast to other European countries in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, provides a thematic survey of the crucial period of growth in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and discusses modern and contemporary German theatre by focusing in turn on the directors, playwrights, designers and theatre architecture.

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