Intertextuality in American Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intertextuality in American Drama write by Drew Eisenhauer. This book was released on 2012-12-01. Intertextuality in American Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The new essays in this collection, on such diverse writers as Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, Maurine Dallas Watkins, Sophie Treadwell, and Washington Irving, fill an important conceptual gap. The essayists offer numerous approaches to intertextuality: the influence of the poetry of romanticism and Shakespeare and of histories and novels, ideological and political discourses on American playwrights, unlikely connections between such writers as Miller and Wilder, the problems of intertexts in translation, the evolution in historical and performance contexts of the same tale, and the relationships among feminism, the drama of the courtroom, and the drama of the stage. Intertextuality has been an under-explored area in studies of dramatic and performance texts. The innovative findings of these scholars testify to the continuing vitality of research in American drama and performance.
Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction
Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction write by Patrick O'Donnell. This book was released on 1989. Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Staging a Cultural Paradigm
Staging a Cultural Paradigm - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staging a Cultural Paradigm write by Bárbara Ozieblo Rajkowska. This book was released on 2002. Staging a Cultural Paradigm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The conflict between the political and the personal, an opposition which pervades the whole of American Literature, informs the essays on twentieth-century American theater gathered in this volume. Prominent theater scholars from Europe and America address the cultural paradigm created by the clash of private needs with public expectations. The difficulty of reconciling the two has led many dramatists to turn to the complexities of intertextuality in order to express their rebellions and rejections of inherited cultural values and myths. Essays on Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Susan Glaspell, H.M. Koutoukas, Dolores Prida, or Suzan Lori-Parks (to name but a few of the dramatists discussed here) reflect the vibrancy of American drama and the depth of the interaction of the political with the personal.
Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama
Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama write by David Palmer. This book was released on 2018-02-08. Visions of Tragedy in Modern American Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume responds to a renewed focus on tragedy in theatre and literary studies to explore conceptions of tragedy in the dramatic work of seventeen canonical American playwrights. For students of American literature and theatre studies, the assembled essays offer a clear framework for exploring the work of many of the most studied and performed playwrights of the modern era. Following a contextual introduction that offers a survey of conceptions of tragedy, scholars examine the dramatic work of major playwrights in chronological succession, beginning with Eugene O'Neill and ending with Suzan-Lori Parks. A final chapter provides a study of American drama since 1990 and its ongoing engagement with concepts of tragedy. The chapters explore whether there is a distinctively American vision of tragedy developed in the major works of canonical American dramatists and how this may be seen to evolve over the course of the twentieth century through to the present day. Among the playwrights whose work is examined are: Susan Glaspell, Langston Hughes, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson, Marsha Norman and Tony Kushner. With each chapter being short enough to be assigned for weekly classes in survey courses, the volume will help to facilitate critical engagement with the dramatic work and offer readers the tools to further their independent study of this enduring theme of dramatic literature.
The Oxford Handbook of American Drama
The Oxford Handbook of American Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of American Drama write by Jeffrey H. Richards. This book was released on 2014-02. The Oxford Handbook of American Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores the history of American drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It describes origins of early republican drama and its evolution during the pre-war and post-war periods. It traces the emergence of different types of American drama including protest plays, reform drama, political drama, experimental drama, urban plays, feminist drama and realist plays. This volume also analyzes the works of some of the most notable American playwrights including Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller and those written by women dramatists.
