Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett's "Ohio Impromptu, Quad," and "What Where:" How It Is in the Matrix of Text and Television

Postmodern drama of the 1980s is often characterized by a selfexamination into textual issues, those semiotic functions involved in structure and in writing and reading processes. Samuel Becketts late work continues to probe these concerns. Plays such as Ohio Impromptu, Quad, and What Where are haunted by problematics of the text, of the self, and of the stage languages. More formal and abstract than the plays of the 1950s and 1960s, these works are nevertheless still textually driven structures that raise, paradoxically, questions of what constitutes a text. Using and examining the writing and reading operations presented in works like Krapps Last Tape, they also go on to explore the image-processing possibilities and contradictions of both visual and verbal forms, and in the cases of Quad and What Where of the medium of television as well.

Ends and Odds: Eight New Dramatic Pieces

In A Call to Heroism, Peter Gibbon argues that the heroes we honor are the embodiment of the ideals that America was founded on: liberty, justice, and tolerance chief among them. Because the very concept of heroism has come under threat in our cynical media age, Gibbon believes that we must forge a new understanding of what it means to be a hero to fortify our ideals as we engage our present challenges and face those that lay ahead. Gibbon examines the types of heroes that we have celebrated throughout our history, and along the way, he contemplates the meanings of seven monuments and artworks dedicated to heroes to examine what these places and things say about the America of their time--and what they mean for Americans today. Full of insight and inspiration, A Call to Heroism is a provocative look at a timeless subject that has never been more important. Chapter One What Is A Hero? A look at the essence of heroism, and how we perceive it today Interchapter: Hall of Fame for Great Americans A contemplation of the Hall monument, built in New York City at the end of the 19th century by architecht Stanford White, and left to decay in the 1970s. Gibbon

Fruits and vegetables

Fruits and vegetables are the parts of plants, except for grain, that are consumed as food. These parts are shown schematically in Figure 14.1.