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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Ionesco"”.
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The Zen of Ionesco: A production
… running through my approach as a director and Ionesco's approach as a writer and commentator. I wish to follow through on this thread - that of Zen elements which manifested themselves during my research and in the process of production - and to document a way of looking at not only the work …
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The Literature of Verbal Nonsense in Lewis Carroll, Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco
… Beckett in <em>Waiting for Godot</em> and Eugene Ionesco in <em>The Bald Soprano-</em>-are striving to convey directly to the audience their intuition of the human situation which is ultimately absurd.</p> <p>Such is the subject matter of their plays, and it determines their form. The absurdity of …
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'The English Ionesco' : eine komparatistische Untersuchung des absurden Theaters N. F. Simpsons und Ionescos
… Dramatiker N.F. Simpson so sehr an Eugène Ionesco erinnert, dass ihm das 'Etikett' 'the English Ionesco' anhaftet. <br>Zunächst entpuppt sich im ersten Teil dieser Untersuchung eine vermeintliche essenzielle Gemeinsamkeit als fundamentaler Unterschied: Simpson ist, ganz im Gegensatz zu …
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Unpacking the individual : a director's approach to Ionesco's "Rhinoceros".
In 1959, French-Romanian playwright Eugene Ionesco debuted his play, Rhinoceros, and the theatergoing world was captivated by the curious image of people turning into pachyderms. This fable about herd mentality and being comfortable in one's own skin is continually timely, as humans and rhinos …
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The Impact of The Absurd on Modern Arabic Literature: A Study of the Influence of Camus, Ionesco and Beckett (Theater, Ikhlasi, Hakim, Idris, Mahfuz)
One of the most problematic issues in Arabic literature has been the opposition between tajd(')id or innovation, and the two principles which have traditionally governed Arabic literature: turath, or heritage, and asala, roots. Tajd(')id has gradually asserted its own as Arabic literature has …
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Dialogue Structure in Modern French Plays and Spontaneous Conversation
… Les Bonnes by Jean Genet, Les Chaises by Eugene Ionesco, and La Belle de nuit by Pierre Wolff. They were chosen on the basis of their close resemblance to or deliberate deviation from actual dialogue and their limited number of speakers. Recordings were made of native French speakers in Paris, …
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Je est un autre
… en Islande, de la vie et des œuvres d’Eugène Ionesco ainsi que de l’histoire et la conférence de Taiye Selasi. Nous voyons bien ici qu’il réside une différence dans l’accueil des migrants par les populations locales, alimentée par le milieu social d’origine de ses migrants. Cette différence de …
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The Russian in Nabokov's English novels
… Nabokov is one of many recent writers—Conrad, Ionesco, Beckett, to mention a few—who have achieved literary greatness in a second, adopted language. Unlike these others, however, Nabokov has written extensively and successfully in his native tongue. Accordingly, with his work so dependent on …
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L'esthétique du silence dans le théâtre de Samuel Beckett
… Playwrights such as Beckett, Pinter, and Ionesco use it to surface deep tensions through extended pauses, repetitive or trivial actions, and a language emptied of meaning. The body, gestures, and minimalist scenography then take over from speech to express anguish, boredom, or despair. …
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The Performance of implied volatility in forecasting future volatility : an analysis of three major equity indices from 2004 to 2010
In this thesis, we investigate whether implied volatility is an efficient estimator of future one-month volatility from an informational perspective and whether it outperforms historical volatility in this regard. We first compare the predictive powers of implied volatility, simple historical …
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Cultural Stereotypes: From Dracula's Myth to Contemporary Diasporic Productions
… of the surrealist movement in France, and Eugène Ionesco, the most distinguished representative of the Theater of the Absurd, are all figures of global relevance that chose exile as a means of spiritual survival. Finally, a brief historical survey underlines the Romanians' presence on the American …
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Ionesco's Absurd Anthropology
<p>Eugène Ionesco's plays are often thought of only as absurd. This thesis explores another possible interpretation of his plays, including <em>Rhinocèros</em>, <em>Le Roi se meurt</em>, <em>Jeux de massacre</em>, <em>Les Chaises</em>, <em>Victimes du devoir</em>, <em>La Jeune fille à marier</em>, …