Modern German Plays: An Advanced German Textbook

(Modern German Plays: An Advanced German Textbook utilizes...)

Modern German Plays: An Advanced German Textbook utilizes some of the most famous modern plays written in German as vehicles to teach German language, literature, and culture. The featured works are The Three-Penny Opera, The Devil’s General, Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Chinese Wall, Visit, A Sports Play, and Innocence. The authors of these masterpieces include not only world-renowned dramatists such as Brecht, Zuckmayer, Frisch, and Dürrenmatt but also such celebrated contemporary female playwrights such as Nobel-laureate Jelinek and Loher. Designed to meet the instructional needs of advanced German courses, this volume combines a number of pedagogically proven foreign language teaching and learning strategies, primarily the communicative approach and the three-stage reading strategy. The organization of the featured plays by chapter provides the instructor with not only a welcome teaching and learning resource but also a convenient and flexible course management tool so that each instructor can decide how many plays to include in the syllabus and how to proceed in covering the plays.

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2015

Theater ist Theater: Ein Vergleich der Kreidekreisstücke Bertolt Brechts und Li Xingdaos

(Brechts episches Theater, einer der wichtigsten modernen ...)

Brechts episches Theater, einer der wichtigsten modernen Beiträge zur Weltbühne, begeistert weiterhin Theaterbesucher und Leser. Das vorliegende Buch erforscht die formal-ästhetischen Aspekte der Kreidekreisstücke Bertolt Brechts und Li Xingdaos, seines chinesischen Vorgängers aus dem 13. Jahrhundert. Der Autor versucht, sich dadurch mit der Theorie des epischen Theaters auseinanderzusetzen. Er analysiert eingehend die auffälligen theatralischen Darstellungsmittel der beiden Theaterstücke und zeigt, daß die «epischen» Theater Brechts und Lis sich nicht nur durch das Epische, sondern vor allem durch das Theatralische auszeichnen. Dieses Theatralische umfaßt neben dem Epischen alle undramatischen Elemente, die das Dramatische als solches hervorhebt. Es kennzeichnet sich dadurch, das Bewußtsein des Publikums als Zuschauer und das der Schauspieler als Darsteller wachzuhalten und die theatralische Kommunikation zwischen ihnen zu fördern.

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Play is Play: Theatrical Illusion in Chinese Wall by Frisch and Other 'Epic' plays by Brecht, Wilder, Hazleton, and Li

(Although traditional comparative literary research has al...)

Although traditional comparative literary research has always placed 'epic' plays of Brecht, Fisch, Wilder, Hazelton, and Li in the category of the same name, the label 'epic' actually minimizes the nature of these plays and the ways in which they have influenced modern world theatre. The 'epic' plays of these playwrights are not strictly 'epic,' but also theatrical. Because these plays have consciously involved spectators, they have created a double illusion, enhancing the original illusion rather than destroying it.

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Rolling Back the Tide of Climate Change in the USA and China: Renewable Solutions and Policy Instruments

(As the United States and China together currently make up...)

As the United States and China together currently make up around 35 percent of the world economy and 44 percent of the world CO2 emissions, without their serious actions, mankind's battle against global warming would appear as Sisyphus' ceaseless yet vain uphill labor. Worse if either or both economic and environmental giants kept blaming each other of the eco footprint and expecting each other to fight the battle first. This book is a thorough investigation of the two economic powerhouses' environmental and ecological impacts in recent decades as well as their greening responses to the mounting sustainability challenges. It will help us not only answer many difficult yet provoking ethical questions related to sustainability, but also gain insights into the two giants' sustainability challenges, assess the effectiveness of their recent greening efforts, and propose further greening policy innovations. It will help enlighten every sustainability related seminar, empower every eco conscious student, activist, and citizen, and transform every economic and environmental policy and law maker and professional in their decision making.

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Renewables Are Getting Cheaper

(Continuously decreasing installation costs and power gene...)

Continuously decreasing installation costs and power generation prices of renewable energy through accelerated renewable energy deployment, improved grid integration and storage capacities, and increased economies of scale of renewable energy systems are the key to meet the world’s climate protection goals set in the recent Paris Agreement. This book examined the world's renewable energy deployment through analyzing most recent renewable energy and economic data in the period from 1997 to 2014. It found that renewable energy has become an important new component in the world energy supply. It compares the major economies' total renewable energy consumption per capita and their renewable energy intensities with or without hydropower in this period, and discusses the policy implications of these findings. In 2014, renewable energy represented around 59 percent of net additions to global power capacity, more than coal and gas combined. The cost of electricity from wind and solar has fallen dramatically in recent years as a result of technological advancement and market diffusion. The recent success stories of renewable energy deployment, especially the solar power installation and consumption in Germany, presented the nations, especially other economic, social, and ecological giants, an essentially untapped potential for them to make major contributions to the impending energy revolution through innovative reforms of their renewable energy promotion policies. This book is a must read for all policy makers, economists, practitioners, supporters and students of the energy transformation and sustainable development.

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