Nobody's Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics

2015 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-117
Author(s):  
R. B. DuPlessis
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Twenty First Century

The Trial That Never Was: Russian Documentary Theatre and the Pursuit of Justice

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Time Span ◽  
First Century ◽  
Documentary Theatre ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Doctoral Candidate ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The University ◽  
Judicial History

Twenty-first-century Russian theatre artists have increasingly taken to using material from real-life events to explore the intricacies of injustice in the civic sphere and its connection to the country's past. In a fifteen-year time span documentary forms have come to the forefront of Russia's theatrical avant-garde. In this article Molly Flynn offers a close reading of one of the most politically charged productions to have emerged from Moscow's booming documentary theatre – One Hour Eighteen: the Trial that Wasn't but Should Have Been (2010). The play uses verbatim texts from the prison and medical staff directly involved in the final days before the murder of Russian attorney Sergei Magnitskii in 2009. Setting the piece in a theatrical courtroom, the creators of One Hour Eighteen place their work in the context of Russia's judicial history in the previous century, during which the resemblance of trials to theatre has often been uncomfortably close. Molly Flynn is a doctoral candidate in Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge. She is currently completing her doctoral thesis on the history and significance of documentary theatre in twenty-first-century Russia.

scholarly journals Chekhov’s Plays as the Basis of Metatheatral Performances in the 2010s

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 280-297
Author(s):  
O. N. Kuptsova ◽  
E. K. Sozina
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Twenty First Century

Chekhov’s drama has retained its constant popularity throughout the twentieth century and the first two decades of the twenty-first century and has an unbroken scenic history. In modern theater it performs several functions: 1) of a literary basis for the-atrical action, carefully preserved by the director (traditionalist approach); 2) of a kind of material that can and should be adapted, modernized, adjusted to the urgent range of acute problems and to today’s scenic language (avant-garde, post-dramatic approach). One might argue that Chekhov’s drama transitions into the category of “proto-text” or “metatext”. Productions of Chekhov’s plays are often the ones that become the realm of the most radical theatrical experiments when their “familiar” “proto-text”, their basis and foundation are, so to speak, factored out from them: his drama remains in the domain of literature, of reader’s attention while the theater moves ahead – into the area of new scenic opportunities which are only tangentially

scholarly journals The Memory of the Avant-Garde and the New Wave in the Contemporary Serbian Novel

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Avramović
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Past ◽  
Twenty First Century

This article is dealing with the topic of two past twentieth-century epochs in a few representative Serbian novels at the turn from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. These are the 1980s and the New Wave era in Yugoslavia, an epoch close to the past that can still be written about from the perspective of an immediate witness, and the avant-garde era, that is, the period between the two world wars marked in art by different movements of the historical avant-garde. The novels Milenijum u Beogradu (Millennium in Belgrade, 2000) by Vladimir Pištalo, Vrt u Veneciji (The Garden in Venice, 2002) by Mileta Prodanović, and Kiša i hartija (Rain and Paper, 2004) by Vladimir Tasić are being interpreted. In these novels, it is particularly noteworthy that the two aforementioned epochs are most commonly linked as part of the same creative and intellectual currents in the twentieth century.

Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 2

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Manning
Keyword(s):  
Performance Guide ◽  
Art Songs ◽  
Song Cycles ◽  
First Century ◽  
Vocal Repertoire ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Selection Of

In this new follow-up to her highly regarded New Vocal Repertory, volumes 1 and 2, English concert and opera soprano Jane Manning provides a seasoned expert’s guidance and insight into the vocal genre she calls home. Manning’s comprehensive selection of contemporary art songs in Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century ranges from the avant-garde to the more easily accessible, including substantial song cycles, shorter encore pieces, and songs suitable for auditions and competitions. Each of the selections is accompanied by a highly detailed performance guide, music examples, levels of difficulty, and a brief encapsulation of vocal characteristics or challenges contained in the piece. A supplemental companion website provides composer biographies and an up-to-date list of recommended recordings. With a focus on younger composers in addition to prominent figures, Manning encourages singers to refresh and expand their recital repertoire into less familiar territory, and discover the rewards therein.

scholarly journals New Approaches to the novel: From Terra Nostra to twitter literature

Co-herencia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Raymond L. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
First Century ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Terra Nostra

This article addresses new approaches to the novel in the twenty-first century. It begins with an affirmation that even the most avant-garde of contemporary critics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century share a commonality: a background in what was identified as “close reading” in the Anglo-American academic world and analyse de texte in French. After numerous declarations in recent decades about the death of the novel, the death of the author and the death of literary criticism, it is evident that the novel as a genre has survived, authors remain a subject of study, and new approaches are possible. The study of trauma in fiction (as introduced by Cathy Caruth and David Aberbach), as well as eco-criticism, are promising new points of departure. The required close reading implied by Twitter also opens up new possibilities.

scholarly journals Inspiracje kulturami lokalnymi w awangardowej architekturze początków XXI w.

2020 ◽  
pp. 4-17
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Bizio
Keyword(s):  
Construction Materials ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
First Century ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Local Patterns ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Architectural Orders

Local cultural inspirations in avant-garde architecture in the wake of the twenty-first century This paper attempts to systematise the manner in which avant-garde architecture employed regional motifs during the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Architecture has used local patterns since its beginnings. However, as soon as the models of architectural orders had become widespread in the modern era, folk architecture and inspirations drawn from regional traditions were marginalised. Post-modern architecture questioned the ideas of universal practices, giving prominence to regional architecture. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, avant-garde architecture once more redefined the employment of local traditions as inspirations. The paper seeks to systematise the modern references to local traditions, distinguishing three basic categories: a) inspirations by architectural form, b) inspirations by construction materials and craft, c) inspirations by the ’idea of community‘. The selected examples are representative of these modern architectural solutions, and are discussed in connection to earlier projects.

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