American Drama And The Postmodern

Author : David K. Sauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : American drama
ISBN : 1624993095

Get Book

American Drama and the Postmodern by David K. Sauer Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621969846

Get Book

American Drama and the Postmodern by Anonim Pdf

Author : Deborah R. Geis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015032879507

Get Book

Postmodern Theatric(k)s by Deborah R. Geis Pdf

Assesses monologue's postmodern disruptions of linear narrative and character development.

Author : Kerstin Schmidt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401202473

Get Book

The Theater of Transformation by Kerstin Schmidt Pdf

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.

Author : Rodney Simard
Publisher : Lanham, MD : University Press of America
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039971861

Get Book

Postmodern Drama by Rodney Simard Pdf

Author : Jeanette R. Malkin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472110373

Get Book

Memory-theater and Postmodern Drama by Jeanette R. Malkin Pdf

Provides a new way of defining--and understanding--postmodern drama

Author : Stephen Watt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0472108727

Get Book

Postmodern/drama by Stephen Watt Pdf

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.

Author : Vesna Bratić,Radmila Nastić
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443888455

Get Book

Highlights in Anglo-American Drama by Vesna Bratić,Radmila Nastić Pdf

This volume represents perspectives on a number of aspects of modern Anglo-American drama and dramatists written by scholars from ex-Yugoslav republics, resulting from long years of common interest and cooperation in the field between the corresponding English Departments in the region. The volume was inspired by the Word across Cultures conference, organised by the Institute of Foreign Languages of the University of Montenegro in Podgorica, Montenegro, in July 2014. The researchers who participated in the conference’s literature section were testament to the growing interest in drama among regional literature scholars. The book will appeal to both an academic and non-academic readership. The former will, certainly, benefit from this book since English and, especially, American drama is not appropriately represented by the number of published books it deserves world-wide. The volume provides a South-East European perspective on Anglo-American drama, and represents a valuable addition to existing drama scholarship, since all the contributors are from the ex-Yugoslav republics and write from a standpoint of multiple othernesses. It will also be of interest to theatre and film scholars, as well as theatre and film enthusiasts, because of the variety of approaches adopted in the papers.

Author : Deborah R. Geis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : American drama
ISBN : 047208352X

Get Book

Postmodern Theatric(k)s by Deborah R. Geis Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621969389

Get Book

Drama and the Postmodern by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susan Belasco,Theresa Strouth Gaul,Linck Johnson,Michael Soto
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1864 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119653356

Get Book

A Companion to American Literature by Susan Belasco,Theresa Strouth Gaul,Linck Johnson,Michael Soto Pdf

A comprehensive, chronological overview of American literature in three scholarly and authoritative volumes A Companion to American Literature traces the history and development of American literature from its early origins in Native American oral tradition to 21st century digital literature. This comprehensive three-volume set brings together contributions from a diverse international team of accomplished young scholars and established figures in the field. Contributors explore a broad range of topics in historical, cultural, political, geographic, and technological contexts, engaging the work of both well-known and non-canonical writers of every period. Volume One is an inclusive and geographically expansive examination of early American literature, applying a range of cultural and historical approaches and theoretical models to a dramatically expanded canon of texts. Volume Two covers American literature between 1820 and 1914, focusing on the development of print culture and the literary marketplace, the emergence of various literary movements, and the impact of social and historical events on writers and writings of the period. Spanning the 20th and early 21st centuries, Volume Three studies traditional areas of American literature as well as the literature from previously marginalized groups and contemporary writers often overlooked by scholars. This inclusive and comprehensive study of American literature: Examines the influences of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and disability on American literature Discusses the role of technology in book production and circulation, the rise of literacy, and changing reading practices and literary forms Explores a wide range of writings in multiple genres, including novels, short stories, dramas, and a variety of poetic forms, as well as autobiographies, essays, lectures, diaries, journals, letters, sermons, histories, and graphic narratives. Provides a thematic index that groups chapters by contexts and illustrates their links across different traditional chronological boundaries A Companion to American Literature is a valuable resource for students coming to the subject for the first time or preparing for field examinations, instructors in American literature courses, and scholars with more specialized interests in specific authors, genres, movements, or periods.

Author : Annette Saddik
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748630660

Get Book

Contemporary American Drama by Annette Saddik Pdf

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.

Author : Hussein Al-Badri
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443870337

Get Book

Tony Kushner's Postmodern Theatre by Hussein Al-Badri Pdf

The book is an insightful and thorough examination of one of the most prominent political dramatists in the US today, Tony Kushner, and his theatricalization of politics. Moreover, it draws heavily on Kushner’s wide range of themes and techniques. As such, it will be beneficial for graduate students and scholars who are concerned with the realm of contemporary American drama at the threshold of the twenty-first century. In addition, the book will appeal to anyone who wants a deeper understanding of Kushner and his major influences such as Bertolt Brecht, and will also be valuable for readers with a general interest in American drama. This book is primarily concerned with exploring and analyzing political discourse as dramatized in the work of Tony Kushner. The author’s point of departure is the concept of political theatre as developed by Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht. This theoretical exploration serves a double purpose: first, it is meant to provide a statement of the definitions and concepts central to this study, such as political discourse, political theatre, and postmodern theatre; second, it offers the tools of analysis by which to read and analyze Tony Kushner’s postmodern, politically-oriented texts. Through this, the book defines the major features of Kushner’s postmodern theatre and explores how he theatricalizes politics. American drama in the 1980s and the 1990s witnessed a noticeable thematic shift from the exclusively personal plays and musicals that once dominated American theatre for a long period of time to an increasing number of plays which put greater emphasis on exploring issues and questions of socio-political interest. As a result of this thematic shift, the predominantly private settings and familial character relationships of the traditional family play have been replaced by a great variety of public settings and non-familial characters. Tony Kushner’s theatre is a pioneering attempt in this respect. In Kushner’s theatre, there is no room for the traditional family plays which dominated the American stage in the 1960s and 1970s. Kushner has found that there is not enough political discourse in contemporary American Theatre. For this reason, he writes his plays to shed special light on the politics of American society in the 1980s, the 1990s, and in the beginnings of the 21st century.

Author : Konstantinos Blatanis
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838640087

Get Book

Popular Culture Icons in Contemporary American Drama by Konstantinos Blatanis Pdf

The discussion addresses the task of theater images in a cultural field where the real is mistaken for its reflection, originality constantly played against seriality, at a moment when simulacra, clones, and emulations of selves and texts become firmly established as the norm. The accommodation of pop icons on stage and the results this framing yields constitute this work's primary interests and aims."--Jacket.

Author : Ric Knowles,Joanne Elizabeth Tompkins,W.B. Worthen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442658639

Get Book

Modern Drama by Ric Knowles,Joanne Elizabeth Tompkins,W.B. Worthen Pdf

Theatre, like other subjects in the humanities, has recently undergone quintessential changes in theory, approach, and research. Modern Drama – a collection of twelve essays from leading theatre and drama scholars – investigates the contemporary meanings and the cultural and political resonances of the terms inherent in the concepts of 'modern' and 'drama,' delving into a range of theoretical questions on the history of modernism, modernity, postmodernism, and postmodernity as they have intersected with the shifting histories of drama, theatre, and performance. Using incisive analyses of both modern and postmodern plays, the contributors examine varied topics such as the analysis of periodicity; the articulation of social, political, and cultural production in theatre; the re-evaluation of texts, performances, and canons; and demonstrations of how interdisciplinarity inflects theatre and its practice. Including work by Sue-Ellen Case, Elin Diamond, Harry J. Elam Jr, Alan Filewod, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Stanton B. Garner Jr, Shannon Jackson, Loren Kruger, Josephine Lee, David Savran, Michael Sidnell, and Ann Wilson, the collection highlights the importance of continuing to investigate not only critical texts but also the terms of the debate themselves. Incorporating both drama history and modern studies, this compilation will be an invaluable work to all scholars of theatre and drama, and as well as those students of the humanities and modernism.