The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism - 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 Cambridge Companion to American Modernism write by Walter Kalaidjian. This book was released on 2005-04-28. The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Original essays by twelve distinguished international scholars offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of scholarship. This Companion also features a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. The introductory reference guide concludes with a current bibliography of further reading organized by chapter topics.
Modern American Drama, 1945-2000
Modern American Drama, 1945-2000 - 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 Modern American Drama, 1945-2000 write by C. W. E. Bigsby. This book was released on 2000-12-21. Modern American Drama, 1945-2000 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New edition of Modern American Drama completes the survey and comes up to 2000.
Bad Pennies and Dead Presidents
Bad Pennies and Dead Presidents - 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 Bad Pennies and Dead Presidents write by Jon Dietrick. This book was released on 2012-11-15. Bad Pennies and Dead Presidents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study closely analyzes key works by five pivotal playwrights: Sidney Kingsley, Arthur Miller, David Mamet, August Wilson, and Suzan-Lori Parks, in a comparison of the treatment of money in a range of American plays from the Great Depression to the early twenty-first century. Money emerges as a site of anxieties regarding the relation of signs to the real: a “monstrous” substance that seems to breed itself from itself; a dangerous abstraction that claims for itself a “hard” reality, transforming lived reality into an abstraction. At the same time, money’s self-generating properties have made it a serviceable metaphor for the American ideal of “self-making”; money’s ability to exchange means for ends, abstract for concrete, representation for real, has made it an emblem of our postmodern condition. Money has been conceived as a malevolent force robbing us of our natural relation to the world and to ourselves, and as an empowering one with which we may remake this relation. This ambivalence about money constitutes an important animating tension of American drama. Furthermore, anxieties surrounding money resemble in important ways anxieties surrounding theatre, and the plays’ treatment of money reveals interesting tensions between a persistent American dramatic realism and naturalism, and a philosophical and aesthetic postmodernism.
Essays on Modern American Drama
Essays on 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 Essays on Modern American Drama write by Dorothy Parker. This book was released on 1987. Essays on Modern American Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This anthology gathers some of Modern Drama's most distinguished pieces on America's four most important playwrights since Eugene O'Neill: Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, and Sam Shepard. While Parker has chosen these authors "as representative of the main stream of American dramatic tradition," she does not offer a general overview of the plays or playwrights, nor any general orientation to aid the reader. These essays are written by scholars for serious students of American drama. The majority of the essays concentrate on a single play, and while they appeared decades ago, all were major articles in the field. Old but solid, they should still be of interest to students and scholars alike.
Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1940s
Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1940s - 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 Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1940s write by Felicia Hardison Londré. This book was released on 2019-11-14. Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1940s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Eugene O'Neill: The Iceman Cometh (1946), A Moon for the Misbegotten (1947), Long Day's Journey Into Night (written 1941, produced 1956), and A Touch of the Poet (written 1942, produced 1958); * Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie (1944), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Summer and Smoke (1948); * Arthur Miller: All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), and The Crucible (1953); * Thornton Wilder: Our Town (1938), The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and The Alcestiad (written 1940s).
