“tompkins joanne”

Unsettling Space investigates contestations over spatiality in one culturally composite nation, Australia, where contemporary theater stages competing cultural and political agendas through space and place. The book is shaped by three specific representations of space: monuments, contaminated places... More

In 1987 Joanne Tompkins travelled to the Baffin island community of Anurapaqtuq to take on the job of principal at the local school. This is the story of the four years she spent there and the many challenges she faced.On her arrival in the Inuit village, Tompkins found struggling teachers and faili... More

Beginning readers will love this collection of scary poems, rhymes, and short tales . . . "told by a ghost!" Lively words by Rocklin and bright, funny pictures from Adinolfi make this a perfect treat for any time of the year. Full color.We will not scare you... much Children will love this ticklin... More

Theatre, like other subjects in the humanities, has recently undergone quintessential changes in theory, approach, and research. Modern Drama - a collection of twelve essays from leading theatre and drama scholars - investigates the contemporary meanings and the cultural and political resonances of ... More

"Post-Colonial Drama" is the first full-length study to examine how performance practices intersect with and develop an understanding of post-colonial theories. Addressing the specific ways that performance has been instrumental in resisting the continuing effects of imperialism, this study consider... More

This is the first in-depth examination of contemporary intercultural performance by women around the world. Contemporary feminist performance is explored in the contexts of current intercultural practices, theories and debates. Holledge and Tompkins provide ways of thinking about and analysing conte... More

Examining the full scope of digital signal processing in the biomedical field, this guide provides the basics of digital signal processing as well as C-language programs for designing and implementing simple digital filters. The text provides a set of laboratory experiments that can be done using ei... More

The tale of Sleeping Beauty is true. There was actually a princess, and an evil fairy queen, and a terrible cursed spinning wheel. It did happen... so long ago that it's remembered now only as a "fairy tale." In real life, though, there was no magic kiss and no happy ending. The princess just kept s... More

What makes a literary classic? In "Sensational Designs" Jane Tompkins argues that it is not the intrinsic merit of a text, but rather the circumstances of its writing. Against the modernist belief that art, in order to be art, must be free from propaganda, Tompkins contends that writers like Brockde... More