Irony And The Modern Theatre
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Irony And The Modern Theatre
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Author : William Storm
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-14
Irony And The Modern Theatre written by William Storm 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 Drama categories.
"Irony, in its contrariness, has gained a reputation for indeterminacy, for being all but ungraspable except perhaps in the most traditional contexts of wittiness, paradox, the assumption of an opposite, or a perspective of stylish but world-weary commentary. Irony in the more complicated view can now be confounding, a perspective that has become more pervasive, or at least more presumed, in connection with postmodernist or deconstructive assumptions regarding the disassociative properties of language in particular. Irony does, in fact, imply opposition, a consistent if at times hidden presence of the alternate view; and when such alternation is reiterated or compounded, the contrary properties of the trope become correspondingly more manifest, leading potentially to progressive negation or even self-cancellation"--
Irony And The Modern Theatre
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Author : William Storm
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-05-05
Irony And The Modern Theatre written by William Storm and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-05 with Drama categories.
Irony and theatre share intimate kinships, not only regarding dramatic conflict, dialectic or wittiness, but also scenic structure and the verbal or situational ironies that typically mark theatrical speech and action. Yet irony today, in aesthetic, literary and philosophical contexts especially, is often regarded with skepticism - as ungraspable, or elusive to the point of confounding. Countering this tendency, William Storm advocates a wide-angle view of this master trope, exploring the ironic in major works by playwrights including Chekhov, Pirandello and Brecht, and in notable relation to well-known representative characters in drama from Ibsen's Halvard Solness to Stoppard's Septimus Hodge and Wasserstein's Heidi Holland. To the degree that irony is existential, its presence in the theatre relates directly to the circumstances and the expressiveness of the characters on stage. This study investigates how these key figures enact, embody, represent and personify the ironic in myriad situations in the modern and contemporary theatre.
Ironic Themes And Techniques In The Drama Of Wiliam Butler Yeats And Their Relationship To The Use Of Irony In Modern Theatre
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Ironic Themes And Techniques In The Drama Of Wiliam Butler Yeats And Their Relationship To The Use Of Irony In Modern Theatre written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with categories.
Ironic Themes And Techniques In The Drama Of William Butler Yeats And Their Relationship To The Use Of Irony In Modern Theatre
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Author : Karin Kathleen Orr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Ironic Themes And Techniques In The Drama Of William Butler Yeats And Their Relationship To The Use Of Irony In Modern Theatre written by Karin Kathleen Orr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Irony in literature categories.
Romantic Quest And Modern Query
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Author : Tom Faw Driver
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Romantic Quest And Modern Query written by Tom Faw Driver and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Literary Criticism categories.
Issue covers ; Romanticism, Vaudeville, Farce, Realism. Playwrights considered ; Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw, Goethe, Kleist, Pirandello, Brecht and Genet.
Irony And Drama
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Author : Bert O. States
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-30
Irony And Drama written by Bert O. States and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Professor States provides nothing less than a new theory of the drama based upon the principles of irony and dialectic. Very close in approach to the Continental structuralists, he treats irony, not as a literary device or as an attitude in the mind of the playgoer, but as a means of confronting reality—a way of testing and resolving conflicting ideas. Pointing out the limitations of conventional categories such as comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy, he views drama instead as a vehicle for perceiving and ordering the possibilities of human experience. After setting forth his thesis boldly and persuasively, Professor States explores other mod es such as the epic and the lyric and shows how they interact with the dramatic principle. He manages to cover, in a minimum amount of space, the entire range of dramatic styles and periods, placing special emphasis on playwrights of universal appeal like Sophocles, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, Shaw, and Beckett.
Historical Affects And The Early Modern Theater
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Author : Ronda Arab
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-05-15
Historical Affects And The Early Modern Theater written by Ronda Arab and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of original essays honors the groundbreaking scholarship of Jean E. Howard by exploring cultural and economic constructions of affect in the early modern theater. While historicist and materialist inquiry has dominated early modern theater studies in recent years, the historically specific dimensions of affect and emotion remain underexplored. This volume brings together these lines of inquiry for the first time, exploring the critical turn to affect in literary studies from a historicist perspective to demonstrate how the early modern theater showcased the productive interconnections between historical contingencies and affective attachments. Considering well-known plays such as Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday together with understudied texts such as court entertainments, and examining topics ranging from dramatic celebrity to women’s political agency to the parental emotion of grief, this volume provides a fresh and at times provocative assessment of the "historical affects"—financial, emotional, and socio-political—that transformed Renaissance theater. Instead of treating history and affect as mutually exclusive theoretical or philosophical contexts, the essays in this volume ask readers to consider how drama emplaces the most personal, unspeakable passions in matrices defined in part by financial exchange, by erotic desire, by gender, by the material body, and by theatricality itself. As it encourages this conversation to take place, the collection provides scholars and students alike with a series of new perspectives, not only on the plays, emotions, and histories discussed in its pages, but also on broader shifts and pressures animating literary studies today.
The Psychology Of Irony
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Author : John Vincent Stoltenberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Psychology Of Irony written by John Vincent Stoltenberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Irony in literature categories.
Irony And Identity In Modern Irish Drama
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Author : Ondrej Pilny
language : en
Publisher: Litteraria Pragensia
Release Date : 2008-09-18
Irony And Identity In Modern Irish Drama written by Ondrej Pilny and has been published by Litteraria Pragensia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Collective identity has been a dominant theme throughout the history of modern Irish drama, from the time of the Irish Literary Theatre up till the cultural changes that have resulted from the economic boom of the late 1990s. This book focuses on playwrights from W.B. Yeats and J.M. Synge to Sean OCasey, Denis Johnston, Brian Friel, Stewart Parker and Martin McDonagh and discusses the variegated ironic interactions of their work with the discourse of Irishness, highlighting the difficulties entailed in essentialist definitions of identity, be they called nationalist, post-colonial or otherwise. At the same time, the book points out the sheer amount of theatrical and thematic innovation the ironic relationship with identity has brought about over the decades.
Theater As Problem
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Author : Benjamin Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-15
Theater As Problem written by Benjamin Bennett and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with Performing Arts categories.
Using examples ranging from nineteenth-century Viennese comedy to Friedrich Dürrenmatt's atomic-age theater, Benjamin Bennett explores what is at stake in the theory of drama; what sort of questioning makes up that theory; and in what direction such questioning leads. Bennett takes as his starting point the inescapably literary nature of theater in the European tradition, theater in its most concrete dimensions: as an institution, as a tradition of ritual or stylized behavior, as a particular type of physical space, as an economic venture. He maintains that, precisely because of its radical categorical disjunction from the domain of the literary, theater in the European tradition has been appropriated as the principal vehicle by which literature repeatedly problematizes itself. Theater, he says, is "the church of literature." Although he is concerned with drama as a literary type, therefore, Bennett does not treat the theory of drama as part of the theory of literature. For the special relation of drama to literature calls into question the whole idea of literary theory as a stable discourse divisible into parts. Bennett considers plays by Nestroy, Schnitzler, Ibsen, Strindberg, Brecht, Ionesco, Genet, Pirandello, Artaud, and Dürrenmatt. He focuses on such theoretical issues as the idea of generic boundaries; the relation between drama and the culture of reading; the relevance between drama and the culture of reading; the relevance of hermeneutic and semiotic views of literature to drama; and the operation of fascism as a literary phenomenon. In conclusion, he frames a problem that his readings have brought to light: at least two separate historical accounts of modern drama are necessary—theories that imply each other, yet remain irreconcilable.