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Choreographing the folk: the dance stagings of Zora Neale ...

Choreographing the folk: the dance stagings of Zora Neale ...

Anthea Kraut

In Choreographing the Folk, Anthea Kraut traces the significance and influence of Hurston’s little-known choreographic work.
The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies

The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies

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See Anthea Kraut, “'Stealing Steps' and Signature Moves: Embodied Theories of Dance as Intellectual Property,” Theatre Journal 62, no. 2 (May 2010): 173–189, for more on the ways in which a dancer's idiosyncratic movement could serve as  ...
Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender, and Intellectual ...

Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender, and Intellectual ...

Anthea Kraut

As revisionist dance historians like Srinivasan, Yutian Wong, Jane Desmond, and Amy Koritz, building on the work of Edward Said, have pointed out, early modern dancers such as Ruth St. Denis and Maud Allan, whose choreography took on ...
Moving (Across) Borders: Performing Translation, ...

Moving (Across) Borders: Performing Translation, ...

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Anthea Kraut, “'Stealing Steps' and Signature Moves: Embodied Theories of Dance as Intellectual Property,” Theatre Journal 62, no. 2 (May 2010): 174, last accessed 11 May 2016, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40660601. “In 1871 a decree was ...
Watching Weimar Dance

Watching Weimar Dance

Kate Elswit

A comparison to another early 1950s event concerning choreographic copyright is instructive. In “Race-ing Choreographic Copyright,” Anthea Kraut points toward the concealed set of racialized power relations implicit in the United States's first  ...
Hands, Eyes, Butts and Thighs: Women's Labor, Sexuality, and ...

Hands, Eyes, Butts and Thighs: Women's Labor, Sexuality, and ...

Angela D. Gittens

147 Authors such as Anthea Kraut, Katrina Hazzard-Gordon, Omofolabo Soyinka Ajayi, and Robert Nicholls have impacted dance scholarship with their research on specific African and African descendant populations, vernacular dances and ...
Embodying Liberation: The Black Body in American Dance

Embodying Liberation: The Black Body in American Dance

Dorothea Fischer-Hornung

Anthea Kraut Canonization and Obscurity: Zora Neale Hurston's Place in the Academy Over the last two decades, the study of Zora Neale Hurston has flourished, with her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God in particular earning a ...
Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender, and Intellectual ...

Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender, and Intellectual ...

Anthea Kraut

But the book also uncovers a host of marginalized figures--from the South Asian dancer Mohammed Ismail, to the African American pantomimist Johnny Hudgins, to the African American blues singer Alberta Hunter, to the white burlesque dancer ...
Choreographing Asian America

Choreographing Asian America

Yutian Wong

I thank Priya Srinivasan, Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, San San Kwan, Esther Kim Lee, Sean Metzger, Dan Bacalzo, Karen Shimakawa, Josephine Lee, and Anthea Kraut for years of listening. Their insights are reflected on the pages of this ...
Against Absolute Goodness

Against Absolute Goodness

Richard Kraut

"When one reads this, one sees the possibility of real philosophical progress. If Kraut is right, I'd be wrong to say that this book is good, period. Or even great, period.
Socrates and the State

Socrates and the State

Richard Kraut

Focusing on the Crito, Richard Kraut shows that Plato explains Socrates' refusal to escape from jail and his acceptance of the death penalty as arising not from a philosophy that requires blind obedience to every legal command but from a ...
How To Read Plato

How To Read Plato

Richard Kraut

Richard Kraut explores the intellectual milieu that gave rise to Plato's thinking and emphasizes the influence of Socrates, whose devotion to the examined life and death at the hands of Athenian democracy are memorialized in many of Plato's ...
A Mother's Heart

A Mother's Heart

Wendy McCurdy

A collection of holiday tales of romance includes work by Julie Caille, Georgina Devon, Karla Hocker, Anthea Malcolm, Cynthia Richey, and Olivia Sumner. Original.
What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being

What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being

Richard Kraut

What is good, how do we know, and how important is it? In this book, one of our most respected analytical philosophers reorients these questions around the notion of what causes human beings to flourish.
Apeiron

Apeiron

Roger A. Shiner

In an influential article,12 Richard Kraut concedes that some of the things Aristotle says about eudaimonia sound strange or paradoxical when understood as claims about happiness. Nonetheless, he argues that it would be a mistake to  ...
Aristotle on the Human Good

Aristotle on the Human Good

Richard Kraut

This book also emphasizes the philosopher's hierarchy of natural kinds, in which every type of creature achieves its good by imitating divine life.
Aristotle's Politics: Critical Essays

Aristotle's Politics: Critical Essays

Richard Kraut

The essays in this volume aim to address, implicitly or explicitly, this very question about the relevance of Arisotle's thinking in contemporary political philosophy.
The Cambridge Companion to Plato

The Cambridge Companion to Plato

Richard Kraut

This volume contains fourteen new essays discussing Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion.
Aristotle: Political Philosophy

Aristotle: Political Philosophy

Richard Kraut

This book presents a wide-ranging overview of Aristotle's political thought that makes him come alive as a philosopher who can speak to our own times.
Is International Law International?

Is International Law International?

Anthea Roberts

... contemporary examples are also easy to come by, such as the crossover of international law academics who become the legal adviser of their state's foreign ministry.45 In terms of international judicial careers, a 2006 study by Daniel Terris , ...
Variable Grammars: Verbal Agreement in Northern Dialects of ...

Variable Grammars: Verbal Agreement in Northern Dialects of ...

Lukas Pietsch

Among them, Allison Felmy, Tara McCartney, Mhairi Pooler, and Ricky Walla made great contributions to the database. Thanks are also due to Anthea Gupta, Clive Upton, Esther Asprey and Kate Wallace (Leeds) for special assistance with  ...
Physical Review: Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and ...

Physical Review: Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and ...

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Annual Report

Annual Report

National Endowment for the Arts

... Filmmaker New York, New York " Robert Sitton Director Northwest Film Study Center Portland, Oregon Anthea Sylbert Vice President, Special Projects Warner Brothers Studios Los Angeles, California Jesus Trevino Television Producer, ...
Gendering the African Diaspora: Women, Culture, and ...

Gendering the African Diaspora: Women, Culture, and ...

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Women, Culture, and Historical Change in the Caribbean and Nigerian Hinterland Judith Ann-Marie Byfield, LaRay Denzer, Anthea Morrison. 9. Amy. Ashwood. Garvey. and. the. Nigerian. Progress. Union. HAKIM. ADI. Although Britain played ...
Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the ...

Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the ...

Douglas C. Baynton

... Linda Kerber, Cathy Kudlick, Alan Kraut, Lawrence Levine, Beth Linker, Paul Longmore, Lucy Salyer, Kirilka Stavreva, James Trent, and Lauri Umansky. Thanks also to the archivists at the National Archives in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, ...
Plato's Republic: Critical Essays

Plato's Republic: Critical Essays

Richard Kraut

Designed for courses in the history of philosophy, social and political theory, government, and Plato specifically, Plato's Republic: Critical Essays will enrich students' understanding of this profoundly influential work.
Handworterbuch der chemisch-pharmazeutischen, ...

Handworterbuch der chemisch-pharmazeutischen, ...

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Talisman

Talisman

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Barbara Barg, Rochelle Kraut, Elinor Nauen, Alice Nodey, Eileen Myles, & Susie Timmons Lost Roads (1978+), ed. CD Wright & Forrest Gander Remember I Did This For You/ A Power Mad Book (1978-81), ed. Barbara Barg & Steve Levine ...
Heidegger's Being and Time: Critical Essays

Heidegger's Being and Time: Critical Essays

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Critical Essays Richard Polt ... Plato's Republic: Critical Essays edited by Richard Kraut Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito: Critical Essays edited by Rachana Kamtekar Aristotle's Ethics: Critical Essays edited by Nancy Sherman ...

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