Background
Fleming, Bruce E. was born on July 25, 1954 in Salisbury, Maryland, United States. Son of Maurice Carl and Jessie K. (Laib) Fleming.
(Sex, Art, and Audience responds to and discusses issues r...)
Sex, Art, and Audience responds to and discusses issues raised by ballet, modern dance, and non-Western performances during the 1980s and 1990s. The essays examine the subject of gender and sexuality in performances, the relationship of the dance performance to its audience, and the important but puzzling fact that dance, alone amongst art forms, lacks a reproducible text. In addition, these essays consider the development of classical style in the works of modern choreographic masters such as George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Paul Taylor, and Merce Cunningham. Through its five chapters, Sex, Art, and Audience develops an aesthetic stance of contextual viewing: dance is most productively seen in its place among other art forms, and the arts collectively as a constituent, if distinct, part of our lives as a whole.
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(Kigali, Rwanda is the fictional autobiography of a young ...)
Kigali, Rwanda is the fictional autobiography of a young American diplomat named Derek Johnston who, in the eerie calm of pre-civil war Rwanda in the early 1980s, learns that he has contracted a new and relatively unknown virus, then called HTLV. Since he was 16, Derek has lived for his sometimes secretive and always tempestuous relations with women. In Kigali, he contracts the disease from the local prostitutes as a love affair shatters. Writing at night, Derek is haunted by his childhood in Paris, his high school years in Illinois, his time as a photographer in New York, his passage through Munich, and the women who have defined his life. Struggling to understand the people and events of his distant and recent past, he both discovers and imposes meaning, as all of us are destined to do.Kigali, Rwanda is a meditation on sex, exile, and the constraints of the social world, on the intensity of life and desire and the vanity of human wishes.
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(For those who both love and have grown weary of the lates...)
For those who both love and have grown weary of the latest adrenaline-pumping escape novel where impossibly beautiful people lead impossibly interesting lives in impossibly interesting places, A Structure Opera asks the question that surges to the surface of our consciousness in the middle of the night when, having fallen asleep with a thriller in our hand and the light still on, we awake abruptly to wonder what might well have plagued the lucid moments of Madame Bovary: How do we make life as lived, rather than the escape from it, interesting? A Structure Opera, following Gertrude Stein’s lead in writing "operas" in words, dares to slay this dragon. It answers: by discovering the structures intrinsic in all things and making art around them. A Structure Opera, in five acts with an Overture and even program notes (the manifesto of a fictional artistic group, the "Structurists,") awakes the structural possibilities slumbering in ordinary things, ranging from the sounds of words, descriptive paragraphs, and scenes to the positions of watch hands, dances for chess pieces on a board, number series, performances of metronome beats, photocopies of photographs, and a piece written for the lights in the windows of an office building in Washington, D.C. Suddenly the most mundane situation is alive with the tension of force fields into which we ourselves may enter. A Structure Opera is a stunning contribution both to art and philosophy, answering the eternal Romantic question: How can the individual, so different from the world, nonetheless interact with it?
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(One of the greatest challenges facing Western society tod...)
One of the greatest challenges facing Western society today is that of coming to terms with societies other than our own. Caging the Lion summarizes the current contradictions surrounding this challenge, considers the ways in which the West expresses its uneasy relationship with the world outside, and offers some clarity regarding a troubling topic. Fleming suggests that neither the right nor the left is able to solve this problem alone. He proposes that the time has come to put polemics aside in favor of a common-sense approach.
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writer English literature educator
Fleming, Bruce E. was born on July 25, 1954 in Salisbury, Maryland, United States. Son of Maurice Carl and Jessie K. (Laib) Fleming.
Bachelor, Haverford College, 1974. Master of Arts, University Chicago, 1978. Doctor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, 1982.
Lecturer University Freiburg, Germany, 1983-1985. Fulbright professor National University Rwanda, Ruhengeri, 1985-1987. From assistant professor to professor United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, since 1987.
(For those who both love and have grown weary of the lates...)
(Kigali, Rwanda is the fictional autobiography of a young ...)
(Offers a theory of art that overturns post-Romantic, pres...)
(Sex, Art, and Audience responds to and discusses issues r...)
(One of the greatest challenges facing Western society tod...)
Member Modern Language Association, Dance Critics Association (president 1992-1993).
Married Margaret Murray. Children: Alexandra, Owen.