The author addresses the problem of time, treating it in a bi-plane way: as an existential problem (evoking dilemmas presented in the layer of the world presented) and technical (facilitating the playwright to obtain dramatic tension). His analysis allows for deep penetration into the structure and content of a play. The book summarizes the two approaches to the issue of the time: textual-philosophical and technical-dramatic. The author refers to the achievements of literary criticism in both English and German speaking countries. In particular, he analyzes links between the timeline presented in the drama and its function organizing events of the drama.
George Polti's book tells you about the inner workings of the thirty-six dramatic situations he claims to have found. According to him, the possible plots can be reduced to one of these situations or to a variation on them.
History of Indian Literature is a classic work covering the entire gamut of Indian Secular and Religious literature including epic; lyric, dramatic and didactic poetry, as well as Narrative and Scientific prose. It includes not only the large number of works of religious literature-hymns, sacrificial songs, incantations, myths and legends; sermons, Theological treatises; polemical writings, manuals of instruction on ritual and religious discipline but also the lyrical and dramatic works; including the two great epics, the fairy-tales, fables, prose-narratives; the belles-lettres and works on various sciences.
High in the crumbling Palace of Statues, oily Vox Verlix - nominally the Most High Academe but no more than a prisoner in reality - is brewing a terrible plot to destroy the goblins and the shrykes at a stroke, leaving him free to take over once again. Rook Barkwater, a young librarian knight, stumbles upon the truth when he is taken captive and forced to work for Rook. But can Rook foil Vox's plan and save the lives of his librarian colleagues-? A dramatic and menacing new adventure, illustrated throughout with marvellously imaginative black and white illustrations.
