Ackerman Reading Modern Drama

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4426-6148-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Taken together, these essays enter into an ongoing, fruitful debate about the terms 'modern' and 'drama' and build a much-needed bridge between literary studies and performance studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ackerman, Alan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 Gossip Girls: Lady Teazle, Nora Helmer, and Invisible-Hand Drama
2 Vinløv i håret: The Relationship between Women, Language, and Power in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler
3 "Silencio, he dicho!" Space, Language, and Characterization as Agents of Social Protest in Lorca's Rural Tragedies
4 The Money Shot: Economies of Sex, Guns, and Language in Topdog/Underdog
5 The Stage Space and the Circus: e.e. cummings's Him and Frederick Kiesler's Raumbühne
6 How to do Nothing With Words, or Waiting for Godot as Performativity
7 Reinventing Beckett
8 Uncloseting Drama: Gertrude Stein and the Wooster Group
9 Synge's Playboy and the Eugenics of Language
10 The Pillowman and the Ethics of Allegory
11 Cognitive Catharsis in The Caucasian Chalk Circle
12 Jane Harrison and the Savage Dionysus: Archaeological Voyages, Ritual Origins, Anthropology, and the Modern Theatre Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

AckermanAlan:
Alan Ackerman is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.