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Journal articles on the topic "Theater audiences Australia"
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Sussman, Sally, and Tony Day. "Orientalia, Orientalism, and The Peking Opera Artist as ‘Subject’ in Contemporary Australian Performance." Theatre Research International 22, no. 2 (1997): 130–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s030788330002054x.
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As brochures for the January 1996 Sydney Festival blare out ‘Feel the Beat. Feel the Heat!’ to draw the crowds of summering Sydney folk to performances of the National Dance Company of Guinea (already appropriated and stamped with approval by reviewers in San Francisco and London, who are quoted on the same flyer), the chairman and former artistic director of Playbox Theatre in Melbourne, Carrillo Gartner, worries about the strength of popular Australian opposition to Australia's expanding links with Asia. In an article on the holding of the 14th annual Federation for Asian Cultural Promotion in Melbourne, Gartner fears that ‘there are people in this community […] thinking that […] it is the demise of all they believe in their British heritage’. The focus of the article, though, is not the promotion of Asian culture but how to overcome Asian indifference to Australia and the problem of bringing Australian artists to the notice of Asian impresarios and audiences. Australian cultural cringe wins out over Australian Asia-literate political correctness. In another corner of the continent the director and playwright Peter Copeman has been attempting to replace ‘the Euro-American hand-me-downs and imitations’ of mainstream Australian theatre with a theatre project which explores ‘attitudes of the dominant Anglo-Celtic and the Vietnamese minority cultures towards each other, using the intercultural dialectic as the basis of dramatic conflict’.
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Scollen, Rebecca Jane. "Talking Theatre: Developing Audiences for Regional Australia." International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review 3, no. 3 (2008): 103–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1833-1866/cgp/v03i03/35474.
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WAKE, CAROLINE. "The Politics and Poetics of Listening: Attending Headphone Verbatim Theatre in Post-Cronulla Australia." Theatre Research International 39, no. 2 (June 4, 2014): 82–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883314000029.
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This article analyses Stories of Love & Hate, a headphone verbatim play produced in the aftermath of the Cronulla Riots in Sydney, Australia. While verbatim theatre typically invites audiences to listen therapeutically, Stories of Love & Hate enacts and enables two alternative forms of listening. First, it enacts the paradoxical mode of ‘ethical eavesdropping’; second, it enables the metatheatrical mode of ‘mediatized listening’. In doing so, the play asks spectators to reconsider whom they listen to and how. It also asks scholars to reconsider claims that verbatim theatre gives voice to those who go unheard by the media. Instead, the article argues that in the case of Stories of Love & Hate, headphone verbatim theatre enables the audience to listen to how the media listen.
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Anderson, Margot. "Dance Overview of the Australian Performing Arts Collection." Dance Research 38, no. 2 (November 2020): 149–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/drs.2020.0305.
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The Dance Collection at Arts Centre Melbourne traces the history of dance in Australia from the late nineteenth century to today. The collection encompasses the work of many of Australia's major dance companies and individual performers whilst spanning a range of genres, from contemporary dance and ballet, to theatrical, modern, folk and social dance styles. The Dance Collection is part of the broader Australian Performing Arts Collection, which covers the five key areas of circus, dance, opera, music and theatre. In my overview of Arts Centre Melbourne's (ACM) Dance Collection, I will outline how the collection has grown and highlight the strengths and weaknesses associated with different methods of collecting. I will also identify major gaps in the archive and how we aim to fill these gaps and create a well-balanced and dynamic view of Australian dance history. Material relating to international touring artists and companies including Lola Montez, Adeline Genée, Anna Pavlova and the Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo provide an understanding of how early trends in dance performance have influenced our own traditions. Scrapbooks, photographs and items of costume provide glimpses into performances of some of the world's most famous dance performers and productions. As many of these scrapbooks were compiled by enthusiastic and appreciative audience members, they also record the emerging audience for dance, which placed Australia firmly on the touring schedule of many international performers in the early decades of the 20th century. The personal stories and early ambitions that led to the formation of our national companies are captured in collections relating to the history of the Borovansky Ballet, Ballet Guild, Bodenwieser Ballet, and the National Theatre Ballet. Costume and design are a predominant strength of these collections. Through them, we discover and appreciate the colour, texture and creative industry behind pivotal works that were among the first to explore Australian narratives through dance. These collections also tell stories of migration and reveal the diverse cultural roots that have helped shape the training of Australian dancers, choreographers and designers in both classical and contemporary dance styles. The development of an Australian repertoire and the role this has played in the growth of our dance culture is particularly well documented in collections assembled collaboratively with companies such as The Australian Ballet, Sydney Dance Company, and Chunky Move. These companies are at the forefront of dance in Australia and as they evolve and mature under respective artistic directors, we work closely with them to capture each era and the body of work that best illustrates their output through costumes, designs, photographs, programmes, posters and flyers. The stories that link these large, professional companies to a thriving local, contemporary dance community of small to medium professional artists here in Melbourne will also be told. In order to develop a well-balanced and dynamic view of Australian dance history, we are building the archive through meaningful collecting relationships with contemporary choreographers, dancers, designers, costume makers and audiences. I will conclude my overview with a discussion of the challenges of active collecting with limited physical storage and digital space and the difficulties we face when making this archive accessible through exhibitions and online in a dynamic, immersive and theatrical way.
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Balfour, Michael. "Mapping Realities: Representing War through Affective Place Making." New Theatre Quarterly 28, no. 1 (January 31, 2012): 30–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x12000036.
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One of the most unusual statistics in the study of performance and war is that aesthetic activity often increases in times of conflict. In this article Michael Balfour extends the consideration of performance and war to aesthetic projects that were located far removed from the centres of conflict, but that deeply connected with the affective impact of war. As an illustration of performative practice, the examples demonstrate the ways in which place making can play with documenting and representing war experiences in different ways. The two examples – This is Camp X-Ray in Manchester (a temporary installation) and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC – were designed in separate contexts for very different purposes; but contribute to understanding the kinds of choices that artists make in representing the affective ‘truths’ of war experience. In both cases, the artists were interested in creating spaces that would make the wars more visible for an audience, and provide a tangible place in which experiences of war could be re-conceived and an affective connection made. Michael Balfour is Professor of Applied Theatre, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. His research expertise is in the social applications of theatre, in particular theatre and war, prison theatre, and arts and health. Major Australian Research Council-funded projects include The Difficult Return, on approaches to artsbased work with returning military personnel, and Captive Audiences, on the impact of performing arts programmes in prisons. His books include Theatre and War 1933–1945 and, most recently, Performance in Place of War, co-authored with James Thompson and Jenny Hughes (Seagull Press, 2010).
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Johanson, Katya, and Hilary Glow. "Being and Becoming: Children as Audiences." New Theatre Quarterly 27, no. 1 (February 2011): 60–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x11000054.
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In this article, Katya Johanson and Hilary Glow examine the ways in which performing arts companies and arts policy institutions perceive the needs of children as audiences. Historically, children have been promoted as arts audiences. Some of these represent an attempt to fashion the adults of the future – as audiences, citizens of a nation, or members of a specific community. Other rationales focus on the needs or rights of the child, such as educational goals or the provision of an antidote to the perceived corrupting effect of electronic entertainment. Drawing on interviews with performing arts practitioners, the authors explore some of these themes through case studies of three children's theatre companies, identifying the development of policy rationales for the support of practices directed at children which are primarily based on pedagogical principles. The case studies reveal a shift away from educational goals for children's theatre, and identify a new emphasis on the importance of valuing children's aesthetic choices, examining how these trends are enacted within the case-study organizations, and the implications of these trends for company programming. Hilary Glow is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Arts Management Program at Deakin University, Victoria. She has published articles on cultural policy and the audience experience in various journals, and in a monograph on Australian political theatre (2007). Katya Johanson lectures and researches in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She has published on Australian cultural policy and on the relationship between art, politics and national identity. With Glow she is the author of a monograph on Australian indigenous performing arts (2009).
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Pender, Anne. "Denise Varney, Patrick White’s Theatre: Australian Modernism on Stage, 1960–2018." Modern Drama 65, no. 3 (October 1, 2022): 466–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/md-65-3-br08.
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F. Recher, Harry, and Harry F. Recher. "A Zoological Revolution?" Pacific Conservation Biology 6, no. 1 (2000): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc000001.
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In May, I attended a one-day forum arranged by the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales and The Australian Museum in Sydney, Australia. The purpose of the forum was to discuss proposals to use native fauna to assist in their own survival. The forum was titled A Zoological Revolution. The idea of a revolution in zoology, much less in biological conservation was novel, the proposals to be debated were controversial, and the Hallstrom Theatre was packed. The number of animal activists in the audience promised an enthusiastic exchange of ideas and I was not disappointed.
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Brigden, Cathy, and Lisa Milner. "Radical Theatre Mobility: Unity Theatre, UK, and the New Theatre, Australia." New Theatre Quarterly 31, no. 4 (October 9, 2015): 328–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x15000688.
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For two radical theatres formed in the 1930s, taking performances to their audiences was an important dimension of commitment to working-class politics and civic engagement. Separated by distance but joined ideologically, the New Theatre in Australia and Unity Theatre in the United Kingdom engaged in what they described as ‘mobile work’, as well as being ‘stage curtain’ companies. Based on archival research and drawing on mobility literature, Cathy Brigden and Lisa Milner examine in this article the rationale for mobile work, the range of spaces that were used both indoor (workplaces, halls, private homes) and outdoor (parks, street corners beaches), and its decline. Emerging from this analysis are parallels between the two theatres’ motivation for mobile work, their practice in these diverse performance spaces, and the factors leading to the decline. Cathy Brigden is an associate professor in the School of Management and Deputy Director, Centre for Sustainable Organizations and Work at RMIT University, Australia. Her current research interests include the historical experiences of women in trade unions, gender in performing arts industries, and union strategies and regulation. Lisa Milner is a lecturer in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, Australia. Current research interests include a comparative study of workers’ theatre, representations of workers and trade unions on screen, and labour biography.
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Goldstein, Tara. "The Bridge: The Political Possibilities of Intergenerational Verbatim Theater." Qualitative Inquiry 26, no. 7 (April 15, 2019): 833–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800419843947.
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This article introduces the reader to the work of Australian verbatim theater artists Donna Jackson, Bindi Cole Chocka, and James Henry. It describes the artists’ remount of Vicki Reynolds’s verbatim play The Bridge, which tells the story of the collapse of the Melbourne West Gate Bridge in 1970. I discuss the remount of the play as an intergenerational verbatim theater project which not only tells an important story from Australian working-class history to new audiences who haven’t heard it before, but also deepens the story through additional research and music. I also discuss the play as a project that uses political truths from the past to do new political work in the present.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Theater audiences Australia"
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Scollen, Rebecca. "Building new theatre audiences: Post performance audience reception in action." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2002. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36428/1/36428_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
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The aim of this research is to arrive at an effective method for gathering and analysing nontheatregoers' reception of theatrical performance. It is anticipated that this method will provide insight into non-theatregoers' reasons for non-attendance, their reactions to theatre productions, and the likelihood that they might change their attitudes towards theatregoing and become theatre attenders in the future.
A combined methodical approach to audience reception is created by adapting and combining the methods of Sauter (1986), Lidstone (1996), Knodel (1993) and Krueger (1994), and the model of Miles and Huberman (1984). This approach consists of a collection of questionnaires, a series of post performance group discussions, and analytical methods designed for examining qualitative data. This approach is tested and refined across three studies: a 1997 Pilot Study, a 1998 La Boite Theatre Study, and a 2000 Queensland Theatre Company Study.
The primary result of this research is the emergence of the Scollen Post Performance Audience Reception (SPP AR) method for audience development. This method is the refined final version of the rigorously tested combined approach. Other results include the formation of a non-theatregoer profile; an understanding of how non-theatregoers perceive performances; the discovery that gender, age, and income have no direct impact on theatre attendance or reception of theatrical performance; confirmation that exposure to performance and an arts education increases interest and confidence in theatregoing; and that self and peer education is an effective way for non-theatregoers to learn about theatre.
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Carter, Danielle Catherine. "Envisaged, invited and actual audiences: A new model to approach audience research in Australian community-engaged performance projects." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/127464/1/Danielle_Carter_Thesis.pdf.
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This study investigates different approaches to theatre audience studies to develop a new practical model for examining the embedded and intrinsic audiences in community-engaged performance projects with social orientations. The practical model is empirically tested in two Australian case studies, and augmented and enhanced through its application in three key audience categories: Envisaged Audience, Invited Audience and Actual Audience. This study argues that the proposed model is a useful tool for industry, in particular, to locate, illuminate and disrupt different points of views on audiences held by community stakeholders, and to integrate perceptions on the audience with actual audience experiences.
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Rice, Jeremy F. "My worst ever night at the best school ball ever : creating taboo theatre for teenagers." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2013. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/849.
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My Worst Ever Night at the Best School Ball Ever (School Ball) is a new play for teenage audiences. The action takes place on the night of a ball for final year students. A prank with a goat goes horribly wrong, a photo of a girl pissing in a pot plant is widely circulated, and everyone finds out about the boy in a sexual relationship with a teacher. At the heart of the play are teenagers, armed with mobile phones, trying to find their way in a contradictory and confusing world.
The creative development of School Ball centred on practice-based artistic research into the field of theatre for young audiences (TYA) through my practice as a director. The research question was: how to produce taboo theatre for teenagers?
School Ball was conceived as a production that would tour to schools. The school ball concept was popular with teachers, parents and theatre company board members but I encountered strong resistance to the story of a male student in a sexual relationship with a female teacher. Even though such relationships were being reported weekly in the media, the content was perceived to be taboo for young audiences. Developing School Ball investigated the complex relationships between TYA and the education system, as well as artistic and production strategies to navigate School Ball past school gatekeepers and reach its target audience.
Young people are at the centre of the research practice, participating in workshops, collaborating with artists, and responding to the work. Their involvement helped make School Ball accurately reflect adolescent experiences, such as the centrality of text messaging – another taboo in the school environment.
Australian TYA is considered to be at the forefront of international practice: innovative in creative process and theatrical form, imaginative and daring in content. But TYA practice is neither homogenous nor self-contained. In artistic practice, means of production and competition for audiences, TYA intersects with Theatre in Education (TIE), Young People’s Theatre (YPT), drama education, adult and commercial theatre. Part of the research aimed to understand the TYA landscape and the place of School Ball within it.
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Beaton, Hilary. "Millennium bridge: a contemporary Australian history." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16435/1/Hilary_Beaton_-_Millennium_Bridge.pdf.
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The script, Millennium Bridge, is an investigation into the passions and fears that are shaping contemporary Australia today. Charting the political climate of the past decade, at the play's centre a man is building a bridge from Australia to Asia. The central dramatic question being asked is "In an environment where the emphasis on economic prosperity overrides that of human rights and freedom of speech--what will be the consequences for the Australian people?" The accompanying analysis of the ten-year period it took to write Millennium Bridge illuminates the significance of institutional issues on a play and playwright's development. Written from the perspective of a mid-career playwright, the paper argues that the professional and personal circumstances within which a work of art is created (and their effect on the playwright's confidence and financial capacities) are a significant determinant of the productivity of playwrights.
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Beaton, Hilary. "Millennium bridge: a contemporary Australian history." Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16435/.
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The script, Millennium Bridge, is an investigation into the passions and fears that are shaping contemporary Australia today. Charting the political climate of the past decade, at the play's centre a man is building a bridge from Australia to Asia. The central dramatic question being asked is "In an environment where the emphasis on economic prosperity overrides that of human rights and freedom of speech--what will be the consequences for the Australian people?" The accompanying analysis of the ten-year period it took to write Millennium Bridge illuminates the significance of institutional issues on a play and playwright's development. Written from the perspective of a mid-career playwright, the paper argues that the professional and personal circumstances within which a work of art is created (and their effect on the playwright's confidence and financial capacities) are a significant determinant of the productivity of playwrights.
Books on the topic "Theater audiences Australia"
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Performance, ethics and spectatorship in a global age. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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Aveyard, Karina. “Our Place”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039683.003.0018.
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This chapter examines the role of film and cinema as a force in women's lives by focusing on women as cinema audiences. More specifically, it considers the experiences of a modern-day group of women who patronize and actively support the First Avenue Cinema, a 1950s single-screen film theater located in the coastal town of Sawtell in New South Wales, Australia. The chapter first provides a brief background on the geographic and economic contours of Sawtell before turning to First Avenue Cinema and its women audiences, paying attention to how it positions itself as a social space that local women want to inhabit. It also discusses the practices of a “social audience” and describes cinema-going as an act of sociocultural participation. The chapter concludes with a look at the efforts and activism of a particular group of local residents (almost all women) who rallied together in 2009 in an effort to help save the cinema from permanent closure—a response that offers important insights into into the everyday significance of filmgoing for rural women.
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Grehan, Helena. Performance, Ethics and Spectatorship in a Global Age. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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Houlahan, Mark. Unsettling the Bard. Edited by Michael Neill and David Schalkwyk. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198724193.013.48.
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This article examines the cultural influence of William Shakespeare’s tragedies on Australasia and the Pacific. To this end, it analyses a range of live and filmed performances, along with the adaptive responses of writers, audiences, and critics to the tragedies. It begins by considering the presence of Shakespeare’s Complete Works on Captain James Cook’s Endeavour when it sailed the Pacific in 1769–1770 before turning to the first recorded Australian Shakespeare: a staging of Henry IV in Robert Sidaway’s Sydney theatre in 1800. It then looks at other works such as those by Charles and Ellen Kean, Ngaio Marsh, and John Bell as well as works that have become part of Australasian literature, including Randolph Stow’s Lear-themed 1958 novel To the Island. It also discusses a number of adaptations of Shakespearean tragedy and concludes with a commentary on Australasian and Pacific responses to tragedy that were generated by—or reflecting the perspectives of—indigenous populations.
Book chapters on the topic "Theater audiences Australia"
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"A Quiet Kind of Magic: Performance for Young Audiences in the New Millennium." In Catching Australian Theatre in the 2000s, 123–49. Brill | Rodopi, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401210034_009.
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Archer, Robyn. "A View from Australia." In Focus On Festivals. Goodfellow Publishers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/978-1-910158-15-9-2642.
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Dragan Klaić’s faith in festivals as a uniting cultural force seems to have had much in common with the altruistic beginnings of the Edinburgh Festival. While it is true that post-war Edinburgh desperately needed new economic drivers, there is no reason to doubt the founders’ desires for a cultural framework that might help to pull Europe together again. Klaić’s desire was to deconstruct the silos of national identity and construct in their place platforms on which the differences in language and practice could be better understood and shared. While Melina Mercuri’s desires for better understanding between the different cultures of Europe resulted in many positive collaborations and much-needed sources of mobility for artists through the European Capital of Culture programme, the programme has also bred a kind of necessary civic bragging that I doubt Klaić would have found productive. This account of international arts festivals in Australia is less one of bragging (though that too has had its place) and more one of early ignorance, gradual evolution and a happy present. International arts festivals in Australia were first built entirely on the Edinburgh model. When first Perth in Western Australia, and then Adelaide in South Australia, cloned that model to their relatively isolated cities, the core desire was to bring ‘culture’ to those cities. Not that Perth and Adelaide lacked artists and performances, but those who had been to Edinburgh felt that Australian audiences were rarely exposed to the ‘best’ of culture. The significantly named Elizabethan Theatre Trust and entrepreneurs such as Ken Brodziak, already toured international shows and artists: I myself was taken by our science teacher, along with a few fellow students, to see Vivien Leigh play Portia in The Merchant of Venice, in 1962.
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"Spotlight on the Audience: Collective Creativity in Recent Documentary and Reality Theatre from Australia and Germany." In Collective Creativity, 313–28. Brill | Rodopi, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789042032743_023.
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