American Drama And The Postmodern
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American Drama And The Postmodern
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language : en
Publisher: Cambria Press
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American Drama And The Postmodern
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Author : David K. Sauer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-14
American Drama And The Postmodern written by David K. Sauer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with American drama categories.
This study seeks to reunite American drama with more of the mainstream of American literature using contemporary literary theories of feminism, Derrida, Lacan, as well as the nature of language. It also focuses on the theatrical ways that plays work through performance and staging. This reveals how contemporary playwrights see themselves not as authors, but as parts of a team of designers, actors, and directors. Stage directions are largely omitted, but knowledge of original productions--both as seen live and recorded on tapes archived at Lincoln Center--reveal aspects of fragmentation of scenery, minimalist acting, emphasis on the "unsayable," which makes these plays far more postmodern than they might seem merely as read. More importantly, the final chapter reveals how these techniques culminate in 1990s play' ability to extend beyond the real in a myriad of ways, all united by a new, postmodern view of the divine as interpenetrating reality.In one sense, this seems to be juggling quite a few different items-poststructural theory, modernist realists, as well postmodern deconstructive realists and theatrical practice. All fit together neatly, however, in each chapter through a focus on performance, staging is seen as central to the dramatic experience, with reviews, photographs, and archival videotapes of productions used to verify and explore the plays' meanings.The plays, taken as a whole, reflect the key issues of American society from reactions to the Vietnam War, through issues of sexual preference, race, and feminism and its backlash, through issues of wealth and poverty to arrive at a new vision of a forgiving divine which accepts without judgment all the issues of diversity.American Drama and the Postmodern is an important book for collections in American literature, drama and theatre, as well as for literary theory.
Postmodern Theatric K S
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Author : Deborah R. Geis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
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Assesses monologue's postmodern disruptions of linear narrative and character development.
The Theater Of Transformation
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Author : Kerstin Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-08-01
The Theater Of Transformation written by Kerstin Schmidt and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-01 with Social Science categories.
The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American Drama offers a fresh and innovative reading of the contemporary experimental American theater scene and navigates through the contested and contentious relationship between postmodernism and contemporary drama. This book addresses gender and class as well as racial issues in the context of a theoretical discussion of dramatic texts, textuality, and performance. Transformation is contemporary drama's answer to the questions of postmodernism and a major technique in the development of a postmodern language for the stage. In order to demonstrate the multi-faceted nature of the postmodern theater of transformation, this study draws on a wide range of plays: from early experimental plays of the 1960s by Jean-Claude van Itallie through feminist plays by Megan Terry and Rochelle Owens to more recent drama by the African-American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American Drama is written for anyone interested in contemporary American drama and theater as well as in postmodernism and contemporary literary theory. It appeals even more broadly to a readership intrigued by the ubiquitous aspects of popular culture, by feminism and ethnicity, and by issues pertaining to the so-called 'society of spectacle' and the study of contemporary media.
Postmodern Drama
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Author : Rodney Simard
language : en
Publisher: Lanham, MD : University Press of America
Release Date : 1984
Postmodern Drama written by Rodney Simard and has been published by Lanham, MD : University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Postmodern Theatric K S
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Author : Deborah R. Geis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Postmodern Theatric K S written by Deborah R. Geis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with American drama categories.
Postmodern Drama
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Author : Stephen Watt
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1998
Postmodern Drama written by Stephen Watt and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Drama categories.
Scrutinizing the critical tendency to label texts or writers as "postmodern", scholar Stephen Watt argues that "reading post modernly" merely implies reading culture more broadly. In contemporary drama, Watt considers postmodernity less a question of genre or media than a mode of subjectivity shared by both playwright and audience. 6 illustrations.
Deconstructing Character
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Author : Jasbir Jain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Deconstructing Character written by Jasbir Jain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Literary Criticism categories.
Contemporary American Drama
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Author : Annette Saddik
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2007-09-13
Contemporary American Drama written by Annette Saddik and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that experiment with form and content, discussing influential playwrights and performance artists such as Tennessee Williams, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Charles Ludlum, Anna Deavere Smith, Karen Finley and Will Power, alongside avant-garde theatre groups. Saddik traces the development of contemporary drama since 1945, and discusses the cross-cultural impact of postwar British and European innovations on American theatre from the 1950s to the present day in order to examine the performance of American identity. She argues that contemporary American theatre is primarily a postmodern drama of inclusion and diversity that destabilizes the notion of fixed identity and questions the nature of reality.
Memory Theater And Postmodern Drama
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Author : Jeanette R. Malkin
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1999
Memory Theater And Postmodern Drama written by Jeanette R. Malkin and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
Provides a new way of defining--and understanding--postmodern drama