Playing Pygmalion
Title | Playing Pygmalion PDF eBook |
Author | Ruthellen Josselson |
Publisher | Jason Aronson, Incorporated |
Total Pages | 165 |
Release | 2007-06-01 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1461630010 |
We create the characters that people our lives. Although others appear to us to be who they just 'are', there are complicated unconscious psychological processes that lead us to experience people in ways that we ourselves construct. This book analyzes how four pairs of people, central in each other's lives, 'create' one another. It demonstrates how each of us is like a theater director, casting others into roles on our stage, even as others are casting us into their dramas.
Playing Pygmalion
Title | Playing Pygmalion PDF eBook |
Author | Ruthellen Josselson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 174 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Philosophy |
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We create the characters that people our lives. Although others appear to us to be who they just 'are', there are complicated unconscious psychological processes that lead us to experience people in ways that we ourselves construct. This book analyzes how four pairs of people...
Pygmalion Illustrated
Title | Pygmalion Illustrated PDF eBook |
Author | George Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | Independently Published |
Total Pages | 136 |
Release | 2021-04-30 |
Genre | |
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Confessions of a Young Man is a memoir by Irish novelist George Moore who spent about 15 years in his teens and 20s in Paris and later London as a struggling artist. The book is notable as being one of the first English writings which named important emer
New York Magazine
Title | New York Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 136 |
Release | 1987-05-11 |
Genre | |
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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Pygmalion's Wordplay
Title | Pygmalion's Wordplay PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Reynolds |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | 246 |
Release | 2018-12-22 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781982055981 |
There's good news for everyone who loves Bernard Shaw: because his works are going out of copyright, we can expect to see many more productions of his wonderful plays - and to be surprised again by his insight, humor, and relevance. Pygmalion (more familiar in its musical form - My Fair Lady) is probably his most popular play - and his most surprising one. In Pygmalion's Wordplay, I argue that long before the postmodernists came along, Shaw intuited their ideas about language and explored them in Pygmalion. This is a book for anyone who loves Shaw and is curious about postmodern ideas about language. In Shaw's hands, Eliza Doolittle's story becomes an enduring work of literature - and the ideas of Derrida, Saussure, and other postmodernists become provocative and accessible.
Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan
Title | Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan PDF eBook |
Author | George Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 545 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Social classes |
ISBN | 0198793286 |
Pygmalion, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan are widely considered to be three of the most important in the canon of modern British theatre.Pygmalion (1912) was a world-wide smash hit from the time of its premiere in Vienna 1913 and it has remained popular to this day. Shaw was awarded an Academy Award in 1938 for his screenplay of the film adaptation. It was, of course, later made into the much-loved musical My Fair Lady.Heartbreak House (1917), which was finally performed in 1920 and published in 1921, bares the hallmarks of European modernism and a formal break from Shaw's previous work. A meditation on the war and the resultant decline in European aristocratic culture, it was perhaps staged too soon after theconflict; indeed, it did not have the success of his earlier works, which was likely due to his experimental aesthetics combined with a war-weary audience that sought lighter fare. However, while this contemporary reception was muted, it is now recognised as a modernist masterpiece.Saint Joan (1923) marked Shaw's resurrection and apotheosis. The first major work written of Joan of Arc after her canonization (1920), the play interrogates the origins of European nationalism in the post-war era. Like Pygmalion, it was an immediate world-wide hit and secured Shaw the Nobel Prizefor Literature in 1925. Drawing upon the transcripts of Joan's trial, Shaw blended his trademark wit to produce a hybrid genre of comedy and history play. Despite the historical setting, Saint Joan is highly accessible and continues to delight audiences.
Pygmalion and Galatea
Title | Pygmalion and Galatea PDF eBook |
Author | Essaka Joshua |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 154 |
Release | 2021-09-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 135174884X |
This title was published in 2001. Pygmalion and Galatea presents an account of the development of the Pygmalion story from its origins in early Greek myth until the twentieth century. It focuses on the use of the story in nineteenth-century British literature, exploring gender issues, the nature of artistic creativity and the morality of Greek art.