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Starfall
Author: Lars Kleberg
language: en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date: 1997
An imaginative tour de force, Starfall consists of three dramatic dialogues among real people in imagined settings. Anchoring each of the dialogues is the great Russian film director and theoretician Sergei Eisenstein, whose artistic theories (in all their formations and reformations) run throughout the book, illustrating the influences that affected the Soviet art world in the period between the two world wars. In The Aquarians Eisenstein meets Bertolt Brecht in the first-class compartment of a train heading from Berlin to Moscow in 1932. They spend the night discussing and arguing about everything from the use of Renaissance magic in art tosome kind of Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk, in which everything in art is connected. The Sorcerer's Apprentices takes place at a meeting held in Moscow on April 14, 1935, on the occasion of performances given during a visit by a noted Chinese actor, Mei Lan-Fang, and his troupe, the prime representatives of early twentieth-century classical Chinese theater. Conceived as a series of speeches by noted members of the Soviet theater and film circles (Eisenstein again), The Sorcerer's Apprentices contrasts the Russian theater with that of the Chinese, the German (antifascist, emigre theater of Brecht and Erwin Piscator), and even the avant-garde British drama (as represented by Gordon Craig). Ash Wednesday has Eisenstein engaged in a dialogue with Mikhail Bakhtin. They speak about German culture -- in particular Eisenstein's desire to stage Wagner's The Valkyrie, which Bakhtin appears to object to on both political and artistic grounds; the influence of astrology in Soviet literary circles; and jazz music as a symbol of pure art. Filledwith references familiar and arcane, biographical and political, steeped in literary history from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth, and peppered with references to the writings of such dissimilar thinkers as Giordano Bruno, Rabelais, Goethe, and Antonin Artaud, Starfall will appeal to all readers interested in the developments of twentieth-century dramatic art.
Starfall
Author: Yolanda Faye Daniel
language: en
Publisher: The Write Dream
Release Date: 2022-06-26
Come away with the perpetual wanderer on a journey through ice! In defiance of her mother, Tierahna (Tierney, if you want to stay in her good graces) runs away from the Keep. For the first time, she strikes out on a journey for self-fulfillment alone. Or else she will become a victim to her mother's machinations. Traditions, restrictions, and oh yeah, a mother stronger than gale-force winds have held her back all her life, making her greener and pricklier than thistledown. A scheme to open the borders of their isolated land is the catalyst to her meeting an exile. One who is an anathema to every rule she’s been taught and sets her on a course no one foresees. The pampered princess of the land has not had enough experience to know how to handle a foreigner who has already snaked across their border. He comes crashing into her life and deceives her in everything he does. On a harrowing trip across the lands, she picks up hangers-on and endures conflicts and other lands with agendas that can kill them, which forces her to rely on him against her better judgment—all while in a body advancing with powers that she has no control over, her family’s secrets unraveling and everything she’s ever known changing. Tierney latches on to the foreigner as the fate of her land is thrown into her hands.
Starfall
Author: Melissa Landers
language: en
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Release Date: 2017-02-04
When Princess Cassia Rose fled her home world of Eturia to escape an arranged marriage, she had no idea her sudden departure would spark a war. Now after two years hiding as a ship hand, she is finally returning to her beloved home but not in the way she imagined. Shackled by bounty hunters, she is violently dragged back to account for her crimes. Her only solace is that the Banshee crew managed to evade capture, including Kane Arric, her best friend...with occasional benefits. Meanwhile, Kane and the rest of the crew of the Banshee plan a desperate rescue mission. But when they arrive on Eturia, Cassia isn't exactly in need of heroics -- she's claimed her birthright as Eturia's queen, but has inherited a war-torn planet simmering with rebellion. Cassia must make alliances, and Kane, the bastard son of a merchant, isn't a choice that will earn her any friends. Kane knows he will never find someone to replace Cassia -- and is certain she returns his feelings -- but how can he throw away his own promising future waiting on a queen? When the outer realm is threatened by the dangerous Zhang mafia, Cassia, Kane and the rest of the Banshee crew uncover a horrifying conspiracy that endangers the entire universe. In the face of unspeakable evil, Cassia must confront her own family's complicated legacy on Eturia and decide once and for all who her real family is.