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Understanding Theatre
ISBN: PB: 9780857426130, Seagull Books, June 2021
440 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Over the past three decades, theater studies has undergone a radical worldwide development and renewal. This happened through two different yet complementary paths: the first (North American in origin) led to the birth of the discipline of performanc...
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£40,50
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Out of Line and Offline Queer Mobilizations in '90s Eastern India
ISBN: PB: 9780857427434, Seagull Books, June 2020
158 pp., 19x15.2 cm
The 1990s and early 2000s were heady days for Indian queer people and their networks as they emerged from the shadows. They grouped together to deal with covert and overt forms of stigma, discrimination, and violence in different spheres of life. Tra...
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£25,00
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Why Writing Matters
ISBN: HB: 9780300245974, Yale University Press, May 2020
296 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm
In this new contribution to Yale University Press's Why X Matters series, a distinguished writer and scholar tackles central questions of the discipline of writing. Drawing on his own experience with mentors such as John Updike, John Gardner, and Jam...
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£16,99
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Monsoon
ISBN: HB: 9780857426956, Seagull Books, February 2020
176 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
An actor of traditional Hindu dramas meets an adolescent girl who turns out to be his half-sister. A man returns to Goa from Mozambique to father a child for a family whose unmarried daughters has produced no heirs. Another man feels out of place in...
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Suspended Passion Interviews
ISBN: PB: 9780857427564, ISBN: HB: 9780857423290, Seagull Books, February 2020
184 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews – hailed on its French publication as Duras's "secret confession" – offers r...
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£9,99
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£18,50
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Soutine's Last Journey
ISBN: HB: 9780857426925, Seagull Books, February 2020
292 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
August 6, 1943. Chaim Soutine, a Jewish painter from Belorussia and a contemporary of Chagall, Modigliani, and Picasso, is hidden in a hearse that's traveling from a small town on the Loire towards Nazi-occupied Paris. Suffering from a stomach ulcer,...
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Selected Essays
ISBN: PB: 9780857427113, ISBN: HB: 9780857421685, Seagull Books, September 2019
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Friedrich Durrenmatt was one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century, a talent on par with Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Bertolt Brecht. A prolific writer of letters, poems, novels, and shorter fictions,...
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£11,99
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£20,50
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Dancing Other
ISBN: HB: 9780857424792, Seagull Books, December 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"The Dancing Other" takes readers to France and Martinique to reveal the struggles of people who belong both places, but never quite feel at home in either. Suzanne Dracius tells the story of Rehvana, a woman who feels she is too black to fit in when...
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£16,99
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Julius Rosenwald Repairing the World
ISBN: HB: 9780300203219, Yale University Press, February 2018
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) rose from modest means as the son of a peddler to meteoric wealth at the helm of Sears, Roebuck. Yet his most important legacy stands not upon his business acumen but on the pioneering changes he introduced to the practic...
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Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonne of the Monotypes
ISBN: HB: 9780300229370, Yale University Press, October 2017
332 pp., 31.8x24.1 cm, 242 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.
Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is arguably the most important living American artist, and his work is central to any history of postwar art. With extensive new scholarship based on original research and interviews with the artist, "Jasper Johns: Catalogue Ra...
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£120,00
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