Daniel W Pratt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4135414 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel W Pratt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel W |
| FAMILY NAME | Pratt |
| SIGNATURE | PRATT D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5209-7049 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reimagining Theatre History
This article presents the edited volume A History of Polish Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2022) as a welcome addition to the growing English-language scholarship on Polish theatre. The reviewer appreciates the editors and contributors’ strategy to make the past intelligible through the present. He emphasizes that this strategy contributed to developing a coherent set of articles dedicated to a wide range of topics. As a new source in Engli…
Introduction
Introduction:Socialist World Literature Yanli He (bio) and Daniel W. Pratt (bio) This special issue of The Journal of Narrative Theory, "Socialist World Literature," opens a window onto World Literature from the socialist perspective, through a focus on Socialist Realism broadly considered.1 Socialist Realism as a genre has largely been pilloried in Western scholarship, with a few notable exceptions, such as in the work of Katerina Clark and Evge…
Bruno Jasieński, International Literature, and World Literature
Bruno Jasieński, International Literature, and World Literature Daniel W. Pratt (bio) Bruno Jasieński's 1929 novel, I Burn Paris, lives up to the title and destroys the French capital. A disgruntled factory worker, Pierre, releases a new version of the plague into the water supply of the city, and thousands become sick through the waterways and then through airborne transmission of the modified disease, rapidly killing the majority of the inhabit…
Performance Art in Eastern Europe Since 1960
The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture
After ’89
Book Review| October 01 2018 After ’89: Polish Theatre and the Political Bryce Lease, After ’89: Polish Theatre and the Political, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016). 240 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. ISBN 978-1-7849-9295-8. Daniel W. Pratt Daniel W. Pratt The Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2018) 63 (3): 91–93. https://doi.org/10.5406/polishreview.63.3.00…
Michael Wögerbauer et al., V obecném zájmu
Michael Wögerbauer et al., V obecném zájmu: Cenzura a sociální regulace literatury v moderní české kultuře 1749-2014." Canadian Slavonic Papers, 58(3), pp. 310–311
Narrative and Form
Boom! Witold Gombrowicz’s novel Trans-Atlantyk (Transatlantic) ends with the explosion of Form and structure, destroying the foundation of the self. From the ashes of this blast, Gombrowicz’s phoenix self reemerges, only to be destroyed again and again in a never-ending cycle of creation and explosion. The cycle of destruction and creation underlines Gombrowicz’s preoccupation with himself, or, rather, with his self, which spans his entire oeuvre…
Freddy Durkee and Ferdydurke
The title of Witold Gombrowicz's first novel, Ferdydurke, has inspired a great deal of speculation as to its possible meanings since the work was first published in 1937. Even in 1986, when Bodgan Baran discovered that the title came from Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt, the matter was still not put to rest. In this essay, the author attempts to discover the meaning behind Gombrowicz's choice of title through a Gombrowiczian reading of Lewis's popular b…
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Narrative and Form
Boom! Witold Gombrowicz’s novel Trans-Atlantyk (Transatlantic) ends with the explosion of Form and structure, destroying the foundation of the self. From the ashes of this blast, Gombrowicz’s phoenix self reemerges, only to be destroyed again and again in a never-ending cycle of creation and explosion. The cycle of destruction and creation underlines Gombrowicz’s preoccupation with himself, or, rather, with his self, which spans his entire oeuvre…
Freddy Durkee and Ferdydurke
The title of Witold Gombrowicz's first novel, Ferdydurke, has inspired a great deal of speculation as to its possible meanings since the work was first published in 1937. Even in 1986, when Bodgan Baran discovered that the title came from Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt, the matter was still not put to rest. In this essay, the author attempts to discover the meaning behind Gombrowicz's choice of title through a Gombrowiczian reading of Lewis's popular b…
Michael Wögerbauer et al., V obecném zájmu
Michael Wögerbauer et al., V obecném zájmu: Cenzura a sociální regulace literatury v moderní české kultuře 1749-2014." Canadian Slavonic Papers, 58(3), pp. 310–311
After ’89
Book Review| October 01 2018 After ’89: Polish Theatre and the Political Bryce Lease, After ’89: Polish Theatre and the Political, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016). 240 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. ISBN 978-1-7849-9295-8. Daniel W. Pratt Daniel W. Pratt The Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2018) 63 (3): 91–93. https://doi.org/10.5406/polishreview.63.3.00…
The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture
Performance Art in Eastern Europe Since 1960
Reimagining Theatre History
This article presents the edited volume A History of Polish Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2022) as a welcome addition to the growing English-language scholarship on Polish theatre. The reviewer appreciates the editors and contributors’ strategy to make the past intelligible through the present. He emphasizes that this strategy contributed to developing a coherent set of articles dedicated to a wide range of topics. As a new source in Engli…
Introduction
Introduction:Socialist World Literature Yanli He (bio) and Daniel W. Pratt (bio) This special issue of The Journal of Narrative Theory, "Socialist World Literature," opens a window onto World Literature from the socialist perspective, through a focus on Socialist Realism broadly considered.1 Socialist Realism as a genre has largely been pilloried in Western scholarship, with a few notable exceptions, such as in the work of Katerina Clark and Evge…
Bruno Jasieński, International Literature, and World Literature
Bruno Jasieński, International Literature, and World Literature Daniel W. Pratt (bio) Bruno Jasieński's 1929 novel, I Burn Paris, lives up to the title and destroys the French capital. A disgruntled factory worker, Pierre, releases a new version of the plague into the water supply of the city, and thousands become sick through the waterways and then through airborne transmission of the modified disease, rapidly killing the majority of the inhabit…
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