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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.

Busch, Charles.

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Charles-Louis Didelot (1767–1837) was a French balletmaster in the fullest sense of the word: an exacting teacher-director, whose many contributions included dancing en pointe and mime work; a highly imaginative choreographer, who often collaborated with his composers and even instructed the orchestra; an innovative scenographer, whose insistence on authenticity and realism in costuming and staging revolutionized the production of ballet. Above all, he was a perfectionist; and in Revolutionary Paris, in Regency London and in Imperial Petersburg Didelot single-mindedly pursued his career, ignoring royal imperatives and fighting court intrigues and theatrical politics to realize as fully as possible his larger vision of the dance. Based upon extensive research in four languages, Mary Grace Swift’s book is the first biography in English of Didelot. It is a full, impressively documented account of his life and career, in which she brings vividly to life the artistic milieu in which Didelot flourished.

Didelot, Charles Louis, --- Ballet

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With The Sense of Grammar, Peircean studies take a giant step forward, moving from a preoccupation with textual exegesis into the battleground of linguistic analysis. Working along the lines suggested by Peirce's theory of signs, as interpreted within the context of the philosopher's entire oeuvre, Michael Shapiro proposes a major reorientation of linguistic theory and a shift in the ultimate goals of the study of language structure. Part One provides a theoretical dissection of Peirce's semeiotic and evaluates its importance to structural linguistics. In it Shapiro grapples with the main differences between the theory of signs as Peirce held it before and after 1906. He then applies Peirce's semeiotic to the development of a new theory of grammar, which he tests in Part Two. Drawing examples primarily from the Russian language, Shapiro demonstrates how Peircean semeiotics engages the actual problems of linguistic structure subtended by real data and resolves them in the areas of phonology, morphophonemics, and morphology and semantics.

Grammaire comparee et generale. --- Semiotique. --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Semiotics. --- Peirce, Charles S. --- Peirce, Charles S. --- Peirce, Charles S. --- Linguistics

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The prevalent image of the late Carolingian age is one of decline and fall. Charles III the Simple's (893/898−923) rule, which has hardly received any scholarly attention since the late 19th century, is perceived to have been the classic example of this development. Enthroned by rebels as well as cast down by a rebellion he is said to have been a weak ruler, powerless in the face of the ambitions of the nobles of the West Frankish realm. Yet, what do »weak« and »powerless« mean? In modern scholarship, early medieval rule is understood not as a question of command and obedience but as the result of cooperation between rulers and nobles. Thus, royal actions, such as the defence of the realm against the Northmen, interactions with other rulers or in regard to conflicts with or between the nobles, are reflections of the relations between the ruler and the circle of nobles around him. A ruler's power therefore depended on his ability to integrate the most powerful nobles into his rule, to mediate between their interests and to create consensus over the course of action. Based on this view, a new assessment of Charles the Simple's rule, the circle of nobles around him, the actions taken by him and thus his royal power is provided in this study, with the rules of his predecessors since the death of Charles the Bald in 877 serving as a basis for comparison.

Carolingians --- Kings and rulers. --- Charles --- France --- History.

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Avec L’Âge séculier (2007), Charles Taylor couronnait une œuvre consacrée à la genèse de la modernité et à la pensée du multiple. Il reconstituait la diversité des moments et des réflexions qui menèrent à un âge séculier, aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Mais loin de constituer une synthèse humaniste, laissant derrière lui l’âge théologique, celui-ci éclate à son tour aux XIXe et XXe siècles, par un « effet supernova » comme Taylor l’a joliment appelé, en une multitude de galaxies nouvelles, où les athéismes côtoient des humanismes déistes mais aussi des « retours de Dieu » surprenants d’expressivité. Ce sont les diverses facettes remarquables de cet Âge séculier que traitent les auteurs de ce livre : sa place dans l’œuvre de Taylor, sa théorie complexe de la sécularisation, certains de ses moments historiques, son intérêt – ou non – dans l’actualité des religions. Une confrontation à un maître ouvrage, qui contribue à forger des instruments de pensée permettant de dépasser le conflit entre laïcité intransigeante et « accommodements raisonnables ».

Taylor, Charles --- Religion --- Secularization (Theology). --- Sécularisation (Théologie) --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Taylor, Charles, --- Sécularisation (Théologie) --- Taylor, Charles, - 1931 --- -Religion --- -Taylor, Charles, - 1931 --- -Secularism --- Secularization (Theology) --- Religion and culture --- Philosophy & Religion --- Rationalism --- Philosophy --- humanisme --- religion --- sécularisation --- athéisme --- Taylor --- Secularism