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Playwright, actor and director Charles Ludlam (1943-1987) helped to galvanize the Ridiculous style of theater in New York City starting in the 1960s. Decades after his death, his place in the chronicle of American theater has remained constant, but his influence has changed. Although his Ridiculous Theatrical Company shut its doors, the Ludlamesque Ridiculous has continued to thrive and remain a groundbreaking genre, maintaining its relevance and potency by metamorphosing along with changes in the LGBTQ community.
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Enfant, Charles Baudelaire voulait être comédien. Cette fantaisie est très sérieuse : elle révèle toute l'importance que Baudelaire accorde à l'artifice, l'élément fondateur de son dandysme. Loin d'être une mode frivole ou juvénile, le dandysme représente pour lui une philosophie qu'il revendique et manifeste autant par sa vie que par son oeuvre. Voilà, parmi d'autres thèmes, ce qu'apporte cette biographie novatrice de l'auteur des Fleurs du mal : bien des pans de la geste du poète romantique méritaient d'être à nouveau questionnés. Nourrie de sources premières (les oeuvres, la correspondance, les notes autobiographiques, les témoignages directs), Marie-Christine Natta ne se contente pas de réutiliser une matière déjà exploitée. Elle accorde une place nouvelle à l'entourage de Baudelaire et en particulier à son éditeur Poulet-Malassis. Elle montre la pluralité de son talent, celui du poète, du traducteur, du critique littéraire et du critique d'art. Elle n'oublie pas non plus - ce qui est moins connu - l'humour de Baudelaire. Ce faisant, elle met en évidence les contradictions déchirantes de celui qui n'est jamais bien là où il est, qui célèbre les vertus du travail et maudit sa fainéantise, qui rêve d'ordre et de luxe, mais mène une vie de " chien mouillé ". La plume ciselée de Marie-Christine Natta restitue magnifiquement cette existence dont le cours paradoxal a favorisé l'éclosion d'une oeuvre à la fois singulière dans sa conception et universelle par sa portée.
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Playwright, actor and director Charles Ludlam (1943-1987) helped to galvanize the Ridiculous style of theater in New York City starting in the 1960s. Decades after his death, his place in the chronicle of American theater has remained constant, but his influence has changed. Although his Ridiculous Theatrical Company shut its doors, the Ludlamesque Ridiculous has continued to thrive and remain a groundbreaking genre, maintaining its relevance and potency by metamorphosing along with changes in the LGBTQ community.
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A treasure trove of illuminating and entertaining "ations from the legendary naturalistHere is Charles Darwin in his own words-the naturalist, traveler, scientific thinker, and controversial author of On the Origin of Species, the book that shook the Victorian world. Featuring hundreds of "ations carefully selected by world-renowned Darwin biographer Janet Browne, The Quotable Darwin draws from Darwin's writings, letters to friends and family, autobiographical reminiscences, and private scientific notebooks. It offers a multifaceted portrait that takes readers through his youth, the famous voyage of the Beagle, the development of his thoughts about evolution, his gradual loss of religious faith, and the time spent turning his ideas into a well-articulated theory about the natural origin of all living beings-a theory that dangerously included the origin of humans.The Quotable Darwin also includes many of the key responses to Darwin's ideas from figures across the social spectrum, scientists and nonscientists alike-and criticism too. We see Darwin as an innovative botanist and geologist, an affectionate husband and father, and a lively correspondent who once told his cousin that he liked to play billiards because "it drives the horrid species out of my head." This book gives us an intimate look at Darwin at work, at home, as a public figure, and on his travels.Complete with a chronology of Darwin's life by Browne, The Quotable Darwin provides an engagingly fresh perspective on a remarkable man who was always thinking deeply about the natural world.
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Playwright, actor and director Charles Ludlam (1943-1987) helped to galvanize the Ridiculous style of theater in New York City starting in the 1960s. Decades after his death, his place in the chronicle of American theater has remained constant, but his influence has changed. Although his Ridiculous Theatrical Company shut its doors, the Ludlamesque Ridiculous has continued to thrive and remain a groundbreaking genre, maintaining its relevance and potency by metamorphosing along with changes in the LGBTQ community.
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This interesting historical work is an analysis of Darwinism as it related to the political movement of Marxism in the early 20th century.
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