[NEohioPAL]Cleveland Public Library: A(nthology) to Z(ero)

[Donald Boozer]

This week's posting from the Literature Department at Cleveland Publi=
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Library highlights an anthology of new works, looks at politics in=
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film, and looks at performance through the eyes of French philosopher=
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Roland Barthes.
The Literature Department is located on the second floor of the Main=
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Library, downtown Cleveland, at East Sixth Street and Superior Avenue=
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Click on the link provided to access the library=92s catalog to reser=
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any of these titles. For more information, visit our location, call 2=
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623-2881, or email us at =93literature <at> cpl.org.=94

New Downtown Now: An Anthology of New Theater from Downtown New York.
Mac Wellman and Young Jean Lee, Editors.
Univesity of Minnesota Press, 2006.
(PS634.2 .N49 2006)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0816647313
(Link includes table of contents)
"At a time when most serious drama being written and produced for the=
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American stage aspires only to mainstream acceptance and high-toned=
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mediocrity, an innovative new generation of playwrights based in New=
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York City has emerged, crafting words that challenge and undermine th=
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conventional structure, language, and characterization of commercial=
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theater while rejecting outdated notions of the avant-garde. New=20
Downtown Now brings together ten new works that exemplify the=20
playfulness, excitement, and possibilities of the theater." -- from t=
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back cover


Projecting Politics: Political Messages in American Films.
Terry Christensen and Peter J. Haas.
M.E. Sharpe, 2005.
(PN1995.9.P6 C47 2005)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0765614448
(Link includes summary, table of contents, and a brief author biograp=
hy)
"This book offers a decade-by-decade survey of politics in films from=
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Birth of a Nation to Fahrenheit 9/11, and a framework that readers ca=
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use to analyze the political content of films." -- from the back cove=
r.


Performance Degree Zero: Roland Barthes and Theatre.
Timothy Scheie.
University of Toronto Press, 2006.
(PN1708.B37 S34 2006)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0802093876
(Link includes cover art)
"Roland Barthes's life-long ambivalence towards theatre and performan=
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practice provides a singularly rich and subtle site for approaching t=
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live performing body as a conundrum whose interest lies not in any=
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future theoretical resolution, but in its stubborn, anxious, and=20
fascinating persistence in the present." -- from back cover [NOTE: Th=
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title is based on Barthes's 1953 book Writing Degree Zero (Le Degr=
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Z=E9ro de L'=C9criture).]


Remember, books highlighted here can be borrowed through any CLEVNET=
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library with the touch of a button. Whether you're from Shaker Height=
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Cleveland, Peninsula, or Twinsburg, just place a hold through the lin=
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provided and choose your library as the pickup location.
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Donald Boozer, Literature Department
Cleveland Public Library
325 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114
donald.boozer at cpl.org
216-623-2881 / 216-623-7050 (fax)
http://www.cpl.org