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The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill

The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill

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Elaine Aston, Elin Diamond. I. ELAINE ASTON AND ELIN DIAMOND ... and internationally. Hence, wherever one looks the Churchillian landscape is ' frightening'. At Introduction: on Caryl Churchill ELAINE ASTON AND ELIN DIAMOND.
Performance and Cultural Politics

Performance and Cultural Politics

Elin Diamond

Many people offered vital readings and suggestions: Elin Diamond, Ali Behdad, Meaghan Morris, John Tagg, Amelia Jones. I am especially grateful to Janet Wolff and Michael Ann Holly for inviting me to develop a version of the piece for the ...
Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theatre

Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theatre

Elin Diamond

In Unmaking Mimesis Elin Diamond interrogates the concept of mimesis in relation to feminism, theatre and performance.
Pinter's Comic Play

Pinter's Comic Play

Elin Diamond

Diamond argues that the metaphysical fear and emptiness so characteristic of the Pinter situation are inseparable from his use and abuse of literary and popular comic traditions.
Diamond Handbook: A Practical Guide to Diamond Evaluation

Diamond Handbook: A Practical Guide to Diamond Evaluation

Renee Newman

The Diamond Handbook, 2nd edition is a full-color, comprehensive guide to evaluating and identifying diamonds, which is aimed at trade professionals, gemology students, serious diamond buyers, and people who want more diamond evaluation ...
The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance

The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance

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Elin Diamond (London: Routledge, 1996). IN OUR SIMPLEST REFERENCES, AND IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, performance is always a doing and a thing done . On the one hand, performance describes certain embodied acts, in specific sites , ...
Theatre survey

Theatre survey

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17. Canning, 228. 18. Sainer, 112. 19. Elin Diamond, “Brechtian Theory/ Feminist Theory: Toward a Gestic Feminist Criticism,” The Drama Review 32.1 (1988): 82- 94, at 89. 20. Boesing, interview by Lynne Greeley, March 1987, Minneapolis.
Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre

Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre

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Refusing the Romanticism of Identity: Narrative Interventions in Churchill, Benmussa, Duras Elin Diamond Questioned about the relationship between women and textual production, Julia Kristeva commented: ... a woman cannot "be " . . . does ...
The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the ...

The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the ...

Ju Yon Kim

In her reading of Luce Irigaray, Elin Diamond makes a complementary argument about mimesis-mimicry, “in which the production of objects, shadows, and voices is excessive to the truth/illusion structure of [patriarchal] mimesis, spilling into ...
Barefoot: A Novel

Barefoot: A Novel

Elin Hilderbrand

Soon Josh is part of the chaotic household, acting as babysitter, confidant, and, eventually, something more, while the women confront their pasts and map out their futures. eBook now includes a preview of Elin Hilderbrand's The Island.
Critical Theory and Performance

Critical Theory and Performance

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12 Whether with Elin Diamond one theorizes paths of identification that through destabilizing an "I" can produce a "we" or even a productive contradictory dissonance, or with Munoz, concentrates on transforming the terms of the identification ...
Auto/Biography and Identity: Women, Theatre and Performance

Auto/Biography and Identity: Women, Theatre and Performance

Maggie B B. Gale

10 Elin Diamond, 'An Interview with Adrienne Kennedy', p. 148. Red was also the colour of Kennedy's own autograph book as a child. See Adrienne Kennedy, People Who Led To My Plays, p. 20. 11 Helene Cixous, 'The Laugh of the Medusa' ...
"Strange Orphans": Contemporary African American Women ...

"Strange Orphans": Contemporary African American Women ...

Beatrix Taumann

Jeanie Forte merely touches this question in her exploration of how a realistic text can confront ideology through the incorporation of non-realistic, here Brechtian, elements. In "Mimesis, Mimicry, and the True-Real'," Elin Diamond also follows ...
The Betrayal

The Betrayal

Tami Cleckley

“I'm fine,” Diamond answered, smiling. “You don't have to tell me that you're fine.” He grinned. “That I can see.” “Get out of here, Robert!” Diamond wiggled her left hand, displaying her glistering diamond ring. “Now you know I'm getting married  ...
Diamond Ring Buying Guide: How to Evaluate, Identify and ...

Diamond Ring Buying Guide: How to Evaluate, Identify and ...

Renée Newman

The Diamond Ring Buying Guide is a comprehensive full-color guide to selecting and evaluating diamonds and diamond jewelry. This updated 7th edition has 140 new photos of ring styles, colored diamonds and contemporary diamond cuts.
The World's Oldest Subway | The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel | ...

The World's Oldest Subway | The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel | ...

Bob Diamond

1979-1980 - Robert Diamond learns about the tunnel and begins investigating its whereabouts 1981 - Robert Diamond discovers the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel 1982 - Tunnel access improved by Robert Diamond & friends 1982 - BHRA formed ...
Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Prospectus

Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Prospectus

Bob Diamond

Bob Diamond. 3.4%one 7/4-356-6245 %measong &nginee, 226%ca/~ca. 3%ad. 9%aden Asand.see 4x4 /ø/2 February 6, 1985 Mr. Robert Diamond Brooklyn Historical Railway Association 5.99 East 7th Street Brooklyn, New York ll218 Dear ...
The Expanded Red Hook Streetcar Project | A Cure For ...

The Expanded Red Hook Streetcar Project | A Cure For ...

Bob Diamond

Bob Diamond. 3.4%one 7/4-330-6:243 %measony &nzoneer 226%ad, are 3%ad , %aten Asana. Mea &rA /ø/2 February 6, 1985 Mr. Robert Diamond Brooklyn Historical Railway Association 599 East 7th Street Brooklyn, New York ll218 Dear  ...
Quicklet on Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond: ...

Quicklet on Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond: ...

Niko Silvester

Chapter-By-Chapter Commentary & Summary Niko Silvester. ThinkQuest. Africa: The Cradle of Civilization. UCLA Department of Geography. Jared Diamond. UCLA Spotlight. Jared Diamond. About The Author Nicole Silvester Nicole has ...
How to Buy a Diamond: Insider Secrets for Getting Your ...

How to Buy a Diamond: Insider Secrets for Getting Your ...

Fred Cuellar

She then called Ward Landrigan, the head of Parke-Bernet's jewelry department, and explained that because she did not want any publicity, the diamond should be auctioned without her family's name attached to it. This caveat gave the ...
Last Lullaby: An Eve Diamond Novel

Last Lullaby: An Eve Diamond Novel

Denise Hamilton

“Ms. Diamond,” Scott Aiken yelled out. “Don't run.” And before I knew it he was on the porch and had spotted me and was leaping down the stairs, four at a time, his breath coming in jagged rasps. I lunged for the knife and shoved the girl ...
Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-neng

Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui-neng

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The Diamond Sutra, composed in India in the fourth century CE, is one of the most treasured works of Buddhist literature and is the oldest existing printed book in the world.
Theatre for Living: The Art and Science of Community-based ...

Theatre for Living: The Art and Science of Community-based ...

David Diamond

This book relates the experiences of his life in theatre. For what he has already done, is doing, and certainly will do, David Diamond deserves all our support.
Two Against the Underworld - The Collected Unauthorised ...

Two Against the Underworld - The Collected Unauthorised ...

Alan Hayes

It would appear that Max Marquis was a fast worker, since Leonard White's memo of 23rd December 1960 makes no mention of his episode among the list of eight scripts then in development. Diamond Cut Diamond was ultimately transmitted ...
How to Buy a Diamond

How to Buy a Diamond

Fred Cuellar

An easy-to-read insider's guide, How to Buy a Diamond shares the secrets of everything from the ring style to choosing a jeweler, understanding pricing and even "the proposal".
The Diamond Anchor

The Diamond Anchor

Jennifer Mills

An unexpected letter from her childhood friend Grace forces May to relive their extraordinary past and confront the events that drove them apart fifty years earlier .May's father won the Diamond Anchor, a dilapidated pub perched on the ...
The Carlisle Diamond

The Carlisle Diamond

Peter Lawler

This is the third and final novel of the Carlisle Trilogy, titled The Carlisle Diamond.
Diamond Handbook: How to Look at Diamonds & Avoid Ripoffs

Diamond Handbook: How to Look at Diamonds & Avoid Ripoffs

Renée Newman

This handbook expands on the information provided in Newman's companion book, The Diamond Ring Buying Guide and covers additional topics requested by the readers.
Diamonds and War: State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled ...

Diamonds and War: State, Capital, and Labor in British-Ruled ...

David De Vries

... 4 De- cember 1946; Schnitzer, “The Revolution.” 8. On the increasing impact of the US on the world's diamond scene see Newbury, The Diamond Ring; Gerhard Th. Mollin, “Die Alliierte Rüstungspolitik und der Congo-Berg10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Jared Diamond

'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' Daily Mail 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' Observer 'Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it' Economist 'This book ...

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