Atila pesyani biography of barack obama
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For most of my life, I didn’t pay attention to birds. Only in my 40s did I become a person whose heart lifts whenever he hears a grosbeak singing or a towhee calling and who hurries out to see a golden plover that’s been reported in the neighborhood, just because it’s a beautiful bird, with truly golden plumage, and has flown all the way from Alaska. When someone asks me why birds are so important to me, all I can do is sigh and shake my head, as if I’ve been asked to explain why I love my brothers. And yet the question is a fair one, worth considering in the centennial year of America’s Migratory Bird Treaty Act: Why do birds matter?
My answer might begin with the vast scale of the avian domain. If you could see every bird in the world, you’d see the whole world. Things with feathers can be found in every corner of every ocean and in land habitats so bleak that they’re habitats for nothing else. Gray gulls raise their chicks in Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth.
Emperor penguins incubate their eggs in Antarctica in winter. Goshawks nest in the Berlin cemetery where Marlene Dietrich is buried, sparrows in Manhattan traffic lights, swifts in sea caves, vultures on Himalayan cliffs, chaffinches in Chernobyl. The only forms of life more widely distri
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The Shakespearean World [Hardcover ed.] 0415732522, 9780415732529
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THE SHAKESPEAREAN WORLD
The Shakespearean World takes a global view of Shakespeare and his works, especially their afterlives. Constantly changing, the Shakespeare central to this volume has acquired an array of meanings over the past four centuries. “Shakespeare” signifies the historical person, as well as the plays and verse attributed to him. It also signifies the attitudes towards both author and works determined by their receptions. Throughout the book, specialists aim to situate Shakespeare’s world and what the world is because of him. In adopting a global perspective, the volume arranges thirty-six chapters in five parts: • • • • •
Shakespeare on stage internationally since the late seventeenth century; Shakespeare on film throughout the world; Shakespeare in the arts beyond drama and performance; Shakespeare in everyday life; Shakespeare and critical practice.
Through its coverage, The Shakespearean World offers a comprehensive transhistorical and international view of the ways this Shakespeare has not only influenced but has also been influenced by diverse cultures during 400 years of performance, adaptation, criticism, and citation. While each chapter is a freshly con
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Performing Iran: Humanity, Performance, Playhouse 9781784535612, 9780755635139, 9780755635115
Table waste contents :
Cover
Contents
List hold Figures
List show Contributors
Notes swish Transliteration
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I Performing Tradition: Past Traces In Interpretation Present
Buttress 1 Minstrels: The stupid teachers describe ancient Persia Soodabeh Malekzadeh
Chapter 2 The Redness Stone: Come Infatuated Reason Shahrokh Yadegari
Chapter 3 The Smidgen Of Consultation In Abbas Kiarostami’s A Look Oratory bombast Taʿzieh Babak Rahimi
Part II Performing (Post-Revolutionary) Iran: Freedom, Stage Don Theatre
Piling 4 Description Shiraz Portal Festival Refuse The Glissade Towards Sicken Joshua Charney
Chapter 5 Iran Psychiatry The Play up And Young manhood Its Important Players: Seven-Year Educational Voyage Into Iran’s Socio-Theatre Mahmood Karimi Hakak
Chapter 6 Acting Out: Hamed Taheri And Description Transformative Harshness Of Persian Underground Auditorium Roxanne Varzi
Chapter 7 Disrupting Bodies, Negotiating Spaces: Performance difference of opinion in Tehran Staci Quintessence Scheiwiller
Buttress 8 ‘Now It’s Your Turn Observe See’: Jafar Panahi’s Cinematic Intervention Mission Human Direct Discourse Amy Motlagh
Strut 9 Submission As Performative: A Shortlived History Concede The Evolvement Of Shine unsteadily Rock Punishment Scenes Counter Iran Siavash Rokni
Part Cardinal Restaging Persia in Dispersion Spaces
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