Word: didacticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The play, Grass's first, depicts a caricatured Bertolt Brecht -- The Boss -- rehearsing an adaptation of Coriolanus in East Berlin, June, 1953. Brecht, and here Plebeians tells no lies, has transfigured Shakespeare's tragedy into a didactic tract for revolution. Shakespeare's silly tribunes of the people become radical ideologues...
Like words, numbers have near-occult importance. This is apparent from the ancient Book of Changes, according to which all the laws of nature can be condensed into eight tri-grams and 64 hexagrams, down to such didactic concepts as the five relationships, the six domestic animals, the seven apertures...
Kerr and Barnes should certainly differ. Meticulous and didactic, Kerr writes a tightly organized review, though lately he has been uncharacteristically diffident and even ambivalent-as if he, too, were rather worried about expressing too firm an opinion of a show. Clive Barnes, on the other hand, is a superenthusiastic...
This comic picaresque stuff is so easy to read that the reader might fail to notice Céline's didactic intentions. Courtial is Yongkind, grown up and equipped with a degree from the polytechnic, but the same optimistic cretin. In the person of Courtial, Celine pours all the...
Most Indian art is religious in nature, but even the exceptions (the most noticeable are the Rajput miniatures) are intimately bound up in the philosophical and religious traditions. Unlike Christian art, which exemplifies a didactic theme, Hindu and Buddhist art attempts to directly trigger a religious experience.