This text examines the intersection of religion and theatrical performance in modernity/postmodernity. Religion, no longer sequestered in the 'private sphere,' has become an explicitly public force. It stimulates and complicates public actions; it is a crucial component of perfo…
The intersections of religion, politics, and performance form the loci of many of the most serious issues facing the world today, sites where some of the world's most pressing and momentous events are contested and played out. That this circumstance warrants continued, thoughtfu…
This text examines the intersection of religion and theatrical performance in modernity/postmodernity. Religion, no longer sequestered in the 'private sphere, ' has become an explicitly public force. It stimulates and complicates public actions; it is a crucial component of perf…
"Drawing on the full range of Orwell's public and private writing, Michael Brennan reassesses Orwell's lifelong engagement with religion in his life and work."--
FC -- Half title -- Also Available from Bloomsbury -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Religion and 'Saint George' -- 1 Educating Eric Blair and Burmese Days -- Family religious influences and Sunnylands Catholic Convent School (1903-1…
"Drawing on the full range of Orwell's public and private writing, Michael Brennan reassesses Orwell's lifelong engagement with religion in his life and work."
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1. Childhood, Down and Out in Paris and London and Burmese Days -- 2. A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying and The Road to Wigan Pier -- 3. The Spanish Civil War, Coming Up for Air and the Outbreak of World War II…
"Drawing on the full range of Orwell's public and private writing, Michael Brennan reassesses Orwell's lifelong engagement with religion in his life and work"--
"Drawing on the full range of Orwell's public and private writing, Michael Brennan reassesses Orwell's lifelong engagement with religion in his life and work"--
This collection of essays by leading scholars from France, Great Britain and North America is published in honour of Peter Bayley, former Drapers Professor of French at the University of Cambridge and a leading scholar of early modern France. The volume reflects his scholarly in…
In the midst of a multi-national comparative study of modern Catholic poets, Charles S. Kraszewski was more than a little surprised at the difficulty he encountered in finding a representative poet from that ostensibly most Catholic of European nations, Poland. With but two guid…