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Myth And Modern American Drama
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Author : Thomas E. Porter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Myth And Modern American Drama written by Thomas E. Porter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Literary Criticism categories.
Modern American Drama
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Author : Narindar S. Pradhan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Modern American Drama written by Narindar S. Pradhan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with American drama categories.
Central Man
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Author : Rupendra Guha Majumdar
language : en
Publisher: P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales
Release Date : 2003
Central Man written by Rupendra Guha Majumdar and has been published by P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with American drama categories.
Central Man traces the evolving dialectic of heroism in modern American drama in the light of the epic tension between the white and the black races. The emergence and subsequent waning of the New England Transcendentalist movement in the nineteenth century provides an apt context for a reappraisal of the heroic impulse in the narrative and dramatic forms that developed in the modern age of American enterprise. Drawing on these theoretical assumptions, this book examines the paradoxical genesis of an indigenous, multicultural and self-reliant voice on the American stage, starting from the beginning of the twentieth century, moving across the tumult of two World Wars and then proceeding on to the Vietnam era in the Sixties. In its refreshingly new approach, Central Man not only demystifies the classical and continental notions of heroism in American drama, but also demonstrates the ironic symbiosis of the historically unequal races of a great nation through and beyond the latter's inherent conflicts on the stage. The idea of the 'heroic' thus vindicates a pragmatic and natural discourse of transcendence at the fundamental level of humanity.
Versions Of Heroism In Modern American Drama
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Author : Julie Adam
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-07-27
Versions Of Heroism In Modern American Drama written by Julie Adam and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-27 with Literary Criticism categories.
Taking as its starting-point the 'death of tragedy' debate, and focusing on the supposed disappearance from the stage of the individual tragic hero, the book views selected plays and writings on the theatre by Miller, Williams, Maxwell Anderson and O'Neill as exemplifying four versions of heroism: idealism, martyrdom, self-reflection and survival. Julie Adam shows that these diverse playwrights share a desire to redefine tragic heroism in individualistic liberal terms.
Myth And Modern American Drama
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Author : Thomas E. Porter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Myth And Modern American Drama written by Thomas E. Porter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with American drama categories.
Myth And Modern American Drama
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Author : Thomas E. Porter
language : en
Publisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 1969
Myth And Modern American Drama written by Thomas E. Porter and has been published by Detroit : Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Literary Criticism categories.
The contemporary student of dramatic criticism in America, unlike his counterparts in poetry and fiction, does not have a well-developed theoretical and analytical foundation from which to proceed. Apart from a "heterogenous collection of aphorisms and traditional tags," dramatic criticism tends toward a discrete focus, based on the shifting ground of personal opinion. Seeking a more integral view, Father Porter persuasively recommends a course suggested by the Cambridge Anthropologists as a means to a more fundamental approach to dramatic criticism. His approach relates drama to the cultural milieu in which it is produced, and creates a basis upon which to examine dramatic structure and meaning in a unified context. In the Introduction, the author examines what is involved in the cultural milieu as it relates to the theater. He includes the immediate American cultural situation as well as the dramatic tradition inherited by the playwright from his predecessors and the heritage of Western culture, "in effect, all those attitudes, ideals and traditions that determine or affect values, supply strategies and pattern human activities." A careful analysis of each of the major components of the cultural milieu utilizes illustrations from the plays subsequently studied in the book. On the basis of this thorough groundwork, Father Porter has selected nine American plays for analysis. Some-Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party, and Archibald MacLeish's J. B.-draw on traditional or conventional literary and dramatic sources which are molded into a new dramatic shape by their fusion with American attitudes. Others-Sidney Kingsley's Detective Story, Miller's Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, and Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?-use popular sub-literary genres or contemporary institutions to forge new patterns of dramatic action. Just as the preceding nine chapters illustrate the utility of a general theoretical approach to dramatic criticism in the analysis of individual works, the concluding chapter vindicates the approach in terms of the light it enables Father Porter to shed on American drama per se. This work combines the virtues of an agreeable style and clarity of presentation with scholarly analysis. It will be valuable to scholars and students and the theatergoing public.
A Critical Introduction To Twentieth Century American Drama Volume 2 Williams Miller Albee
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Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1984-11-15
A Critical Introduction To Twentieth Century American Drama Volume 2 Williams Miller Albee written by C. W. E. Bigsby 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 1984-11-15 with Drama categories.
Dr Bigsby analyses the early unpublished plays and the major works of Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and Edward Albee.
A Critical Introduction To Twentieth Century American Drama Volume 3 Beyond Broadway
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Author : C. W. E. Bigsby
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1985-05-02
A Critical Introduction To Twentieth Century American Drama Volume 3 Beyond Broadway written by C. W. E. Bigsby 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 1985-05-02 with Drama categories.
The final volume of Christopher Bigsby's critical account of American drama in the twentieth century.
Recent American Drama
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Author : Alan Seymour Downer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
Recent American Drama written by Alan Seymour Downer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with American drama categories.
Dramatists included: N. Richard Nash, Thornton Wilder, Paul Green, Leslie Stevens, Archibald MacLeish, Eugene O'Neill, Michael Gazzo, Maxwell Anderson, T.S. Eliot, George B. Shaw, Elmer Rice, Harry Brown, Paddy Chayefsky, Arthur Laurents, William Inge, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, and Lillian Hellman.
Guide To American Drama Explication
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Author : Rosalie C. Otero
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1995
Guide To American Drama Explication written by Rosalie C. Otero and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Criticism categories.
This guide covers theatre as literature and offers listings of scholarly explications from colonial to contemporary, Edward Albee to Tennessee Williams. Arranged alphabetically by playwright and play title, the bibliography covers both periodicals and book-length criticism and reflects a variety of critical methods.