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• Author(s): Paul Bouissac • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: CircusA Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2019 This book documents and discusses the meaning(s) of the creative process at play in the c...

• Author(s): Dr. Nisha P R • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralAbout the Book This work is an original and pioneering exploration of not only the social history of the...

• Author(s): Maxime Gaussen • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: European - FrenchLe livre ""Ecuyers et Ecuy�����res Histoire des Cirques d'Europe: 1680-1891"" �����crit par Maxime Gaussen en 1893 e...

• Author(s): David Carlyon • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Circus2017 Freedley Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association 2016 Best Circus Book of the Year, Stuart Thayer Prize, Circus Historical Society Th...

• Author(s): George a. Hamid • Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Literary Licensing, LLC • BISAC: General""Circus"" by George A. Hamid is a fascinating and insightful book that provides an in-depth look at the world of the c...

• Author(s): Nell Gifford • Publisher: History Press • Publisher Imprint: History Press • BISAC: CircusEach summer a small and glamorous part of the 1930s comes back to life, recreating magic from an era long past. Evoking a tradition common in t...

• Author(s): Sakina M. Hughes • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press • Publisher Imprint: University of North Carolina Press • BISAC: African American & BlackBefore the heyday of the Chitlin Circuit and the Harlem Renaissance, Africa...

• Author(s): Micah D. Childress • Publisher: University of Tennessee Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Tennessee Press • BISAC: CircusThe nineteenth century saw the American circus move from a reviled and rejected form of entertainment to ...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: CircusIn its heyday, the American circus was the largest showbiz industry the world had ever seen. From the mid-1800s to mid-1900s, traveling circuses performed for a...

• Author(s): Josephine Demott Robinson • Publisher: Tradd Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Tradd Street Press • BISAC: Women

• Author(s): Paul Bouissac • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsNow available in paperback, this volume presents a theory of the circus as a secular ritual and introduces a meth...

• Author(s): Lois Ehlert • Publisher: HarperCollins • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins • BISAC: Animals - Lions, Tigers, Leopards, etc.From the Back CoverSimple text and brilliantly colored cut-paper illustrations take children into a big top of ...

• Author(s): Marian Murray • Publisher: Hassell Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Hassell Street Press • BISAC: CircusThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we kn...

• Author(s): Paul Bouissac • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: CircusDuring the last 300 years circus clowns have emerged as powerful cultural icons. This is the first semiotic analysis of the range ...

• Author(s): Brenda Assael • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: CircusIt was during the Victorian era that the circus, whose origins lay in the fairground world, emerged as a commerc...

• Author(s): A. J. Griffiths-Jones • Publisher: Next Chapter • Publisher Imprint: Next Chapter • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - CozyThe year is 1985, and O' Hare's Travelling Circus is touring the country.Their spectacular acts mesmerize audien...

• Author(s): Frederic Weinstein • Publisher: iUniverse • Publisher Imprint: iUniverse • BISAC: LiteraryA tour de force of astonishing power and poetry, Circus uses the mystic panorama of a traveling mud show as a metaphor for the neverending cycl...

• Author(s): Peta Tait • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: CircusThe Routledge Circus Studies Reader offers an absorbing critical introduction to this diverse and emerging field. It brings together the work o...

• Author(s): Esse Forrester O'Brien | James T. Jones • Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Literary Licensing, LLC • BISAC: General""Circus: Cinders To Sawdust"" is a fascinating book by Esse Forrester O'Brien that explores th...

• Author(s): Xist Publishing • Publisher: Xist Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Xist Publishing • BISAC: Performing Arts - CircusDiscover Series Books for Babies & Toddlers Step Right Up! It's time to visit the Big Top in the latest book from ...

• Author(s): Franziska Trapp • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Popular CultureThis collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360 view on the circus. The three sections o...

• Author(s): Katie Lavers | Jon Burtt | Emmanuel Bochud • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: CircusIn this volume Social Circus is explored in depth by three Circus Studies scholars working with the aim of creating new w...

• Author(s): S. S. Greene | Charles Landeros • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: Horror - GeneralFor those who are fans of Steven King, Dean Koontz, and the horror/thriller genre: The Circus of Chaos Universe presents Boo...

• Author(s): Paul Bouissac • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book analyses two features of the traditional circus that have come under increasing attack since the...

• Author(s): Katie Lavers • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: CircusIn this volume, twenty-four creators come together with three scholars to discuss Contemporary Circus, bridging the divide between practice ...

• Author(s): Gillian Arrighi | Jim Davis • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe Cambridge Companion to the Circus provides a complete guide for students, scholars, teachers, res...

• Author(s): Sabine Hanke • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Europe - GermanyFrom the Back CoverWorlds of the ring is a groundbreaking exploration of the interwar European circus sce...

• Author(s): Jr. Alger Horatio • Publisher: Anson Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Anson Street Press • BISAC: Performing Arts - CircusExperience the thrill of the big top with "Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus," a classic advent...

• Author(s): Marian Murray • Publisher: Greenwood Press • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood Press • BISAC: Circus

• Author(s): David Wiles | Christine Dymkowski • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismScholars, amateur historians and actors have shaped theatre history i...

• Author(s): Alexander Kluge • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: World Literature - Europe (General)Alexander Kluge explores the madcap, multifaceted world of the circus thro...

• Author(s): Isaac J. 1833-1911 Greenwood • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civili...

• Author(s): Franziska Trapp • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: CircusWhat are the characteristics of contemporary circus? In what way does contemporary circus differ from theater, dance, and performance? Wh...