Dina Sherzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 279333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dina Sherzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dina |
| FAMILY NAME | Sherzer |
| SIGNATURE | SHERZER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Texas Austin Department of French and Italian |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From the Tropical Forest to Caribbean Islands to Cities and Beyond
Travel, migration, and displacement have characterized most of Kuna history, beginning with their arrival in the Darién jungle in Panama and their subsequent move to the Caribbean coast and adjacent islands. Travel to other parts of Panama was formerly largely temporary, for work, education, or visiting other Kuna-speaking communities; recently, however, larger-scale migrations to the major cities of Panama have taken place, with migrants remaini…
Visions of War in France
Remembrance of Things Past
head of the Tunisian Office of the Family and Women, explains that women in Tunisia enjoy many rights, including family planning and education. A succession of progressive presidents and governments have put in place policies which have enabled women to have access to professions traditionally reserved for men, such as judge, policeman, or pilot.' Moufida Tlatli is the product of this society. After she graduated in 1968 from the Institut des hau…
Fear of the Dark
Cinema, Colonialism, Postcolonialism
Cinema, colonialism, postcolonialism
Nations without Nationalism
What of tomorrow's nation? open letter to Harlem Desir the nation and the world concerning The Samurai
Cabaret Performance. Volume I
The New Wave and Its Franco-American Intersections
Beckett Translating/Translating Beckett
Michael Issacharoff, Discourse as performance. Stanford, CA
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A Dictionary of Narratology
Humor and Comedy in Puppetry
This volume is about puppetry, an expression of popular and folk culture which is extremely widespread around the world and yet has attracted relatively little scholarly attention. Puppetry, which is intended for audiences of adults as well as children, is a form of communication and entertainment and an esthetic and artistic creation. Of the many aspects of puppetry worthy of scholarly study, this book's focus is on a central and dominant featur…
Samuel Beckett, Linguist and Poetician
Samuel Beckett demonstrated his sensitivity to language early in his career. In his 1929 essay Dante... Bruno. Vico..Joyce, his'remarks are not about the content of the works he discusses but about the ways in which language is used.2 Several points emerge from this critical essay. Beckett is sensitive to the materiality of language; i.e., he is aware not only of what language says but also of how language says. About Joyce's Work in Progress he …
Representation in Contemporary French Fiction
Representation in Contemporary French Fiction
Representation in Contemporary French Fiction
Representation in Contemporary French Fiction
The Subject in Question
Claire Bretécher
Serial Constructs in the Nouveau Roman
1.1 The Nouveau Roman brought about a radical shift in literary consciousness which was concretized in what has been called the practice of writing. foundation is a profound experience of language and of form and the demonstration of that experience in the writing of the novel which, transgressed, is no longer repetition and self-effacement but work and self-presentation as text. Its 'realism' is not the mirroring of some 'reality' but an attenti…
Didi, Gogo, Pozzo, Lucky
dina sherzer1. En attendant Godot est souvent considérée comme une pièce statique parce qu'elle ne contient pas d'intrigue, parce qu'elle n'a pas de suspense et parce qu'elle ne présente pas un grand intérêt dramatique.Vladimir et Estragon, deux individus perdus au milieu de quelque no man's land, répètent sans cesse qu'ils attendent un homme nommé Godot et ils attendent ce Godot pendant les deux actes de la pièce.Au cours de chacun des actes deu…
Dialogic Incongruities in the Theater of the Absurd
Circus
In the opening pages of La dissemination Derrida notices that: la forme du livre est d6sormais soumise ' une turbulence g6nerale.1 This remark is most fitting for Circus by Maurice Roche.2 At first glance, Circus might appear to be a display of various types of writing (alphabetical, ideographic, and scientific) or perhaps a collection of concrete poems.3 A closer look, however, reveals that the book is an impressive juxtaposition, mixing, and me…
Representation in Contemporary French Fiction
Remembrance of Things Past
head of the Tunisian Office of the Family and Women, explains that women in Tunisia enjoy many rights, including family planning and education. A succession of progressive presidents and governments have put in place policies which have enabled women to have access to professions traditionally reserved for men, such as judge, policeman, or pilot.' Moufida Tlatli is the product of this society. After she graduated in 1968 from the Institut des hau…
Serial Constructs in the Nouveau Roman
1.1 The Nouveau Roman brought about a radical shift in literary consciousness which was concretized in what has been called the practice of writing. foundation is a profound experience of language and of form and the demonstration of that experience in the writing of the novel which, transgressed, is no longer repetition and self-effacement but work and self-presentation as text. Its 'realism' is not the mirroring of some 'reality' but an attenti…
Circus
In the opening pages of La dissemination Derrida notices that: la forme du livre est d6sormais soumise ' une turbulence g6nerale.1 This remark is most fitting for Circus by Maurice Roche.2 At first glance, Circus might appear to be a display of various types of writing (alphabetical, ideographic, and scientific) or perhaps a collection of concrete poems.3 A closer look, however, reveals that the book is an impressive juxtaposition, mixing, and me…
Dialogic Incongruities in the Theater of the Absurd
Claire Bretécher
Serial Constructs in the Nouveau Roman
1.1 The Nouveau Roman brought about a radical shift in literary consciousness which was concretized in what has been called the practice of writing. foundation is a profound experience of language and of form and the demonstration of that experience in the writing of the novel which, transgressed, is no longer repetition and self-effacement but work and self-presentation as text. Its 'realism' is not the mirroring of some 'reality' but an attenti…
Didi, Gogo, Pozzo, Lucky
dina sherzer1. En attendant Godot est souvent considérée comme une pièce statique parce qu'elle ne contient pas d'intrigue, parce qu'elle n'a pas de suspense et parce qu'elle ne présente pas un grand intérêt dramatique.Vladimir et Estragon, deux individus perdus au milieu de quelque no man's land, répètent sans cesse qu'ils attendent un homme nommé Godot et ils attendent ce Godot pendant les deux actes de la pièce.Au cours de chacun des actes deu…
The Subject in Question
Representation in Contemporary French Fiction
Representation in Contemporary French Fiction
Representation in Contemporary French Fiction
Representation in Contemporary French Fiction
Samuel Beckett, Linguist and Poetician
Samuel Beckett demonstrated his sensitivity to language early in his career. In his 1929 essay Dante... Bruno. Vico..Joyce, his'remarks are not about the content of the works he discusses but about the ways in which language is used.2 Several points emerge from this critical essay. Beckett is sensitive to the materiality of language; i.e., he is aware not only of what language says but also of how language says. About Joyce's Work in Progress he …
A Dictionary of Narratology
Humor and Comedy in Puppetry
This volume is about puppetry, an expression of popular and folk culture which is extremely widespread around the world and yet has attracted relatively little scholarly attention. Puppetry, which is intended for audiences of adults as well as children, is a form of communication and entertainment and an esthetic and artistic creation. Of the many aspects of puppetry worthy of scholarly study, this book's focus is on a central and dominant featur…
Beckett Translating/Translating Beckett
Michael Issacharoff, Discourse as performance. Stanford, CA
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Cabaret Performance. Volume I
The New Wave and Its Franco-American Intersections
Nations without Nationalism
What of tomorrow's nation? open letter to Harlem Desir the nation and the world concerning The Samurai
Cinema, Colonialism, Postcolonialism
Cinema, colonialism, postcolonialism
Fear of the Dark
Remembrance of Things Past
head of the Tunisian Office of the Family and Women, explains that women in Tunisia enjoy many rights, including family planning and education. A succession of progressive presidents and governments have put in place policies which have enabled women to have access to professions traditionally reserved for men, such as judge, policeman, or pilot.' Moufida Tlatli is the product of this society. After she graduated in 1968 from the Institut des hau…
Visions of War in France
From the Tropical Forest to Caribbean Islands to Cities and Beyond
Travel, migration, and displacement have characterized most of Kuna history, beginning with their arrival in the Darién jungle in Panama and their subsequent move to the Caribbean coast and adjacent islands. Travel to other parts of Panama was formerly largely temporary, for work, education, or visiting other Kuna-speaking communities; recently, however, larger-scale migrations to the major cities of Panama have taken place, with migrants remaini…
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