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Author : Henry J. Schmidt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015025186134
Examines the historical, social, and psychological forces that shape dramatic endings and their effects on audiences.
Author : Francis M. Dunn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996-07-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195344776
Euripides is a notoriously problematic and controversial playwright whose innovations, according to Nietzsche, brought Greek tragedy to an early death. Dunn here argues that the infamous and artificial endings in Euripides deny the viewer access to a stable or authoritative reading of the play, while innovations in plot and ending opened tragedy up to a medley of comic, parodic, and narrative impulses. Part One explores the dramatic and metadramatic uses of novel closing gestures, such as aetiology, closing prophecy, exit lines of the chorus, and deus ex machina. Part Two shows how experimentation in plot and ending reinforce one another in Hippolytus, Trojan Women, and Heracles. Part Three argues that in three late plays, Helen, Orestes, and Phoenician Women, Euripides devises radically new and untragic ways of representing and understanding human experience. Tragedy's End is the first comprehensive study of closure in classical literature, and will be of interest to a range of students and scholars.
Author : David J. H. Beldman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781575064970
The last five chapters of the book of Judges (chs. 17-21) contain some shocking and bizarre stories, and precisely how these stories relate to the rest of the book is a major question in scholarship on the book. Leveraging work from literary studies and hermeneutics, Beldman reexamines Judges 17-21 with the aim of discerning the "strategies of ending" that are at work in these chapters. The author identifies and describes a number of strategies of ending in Judges 17-21, including the strategy of completion, the strategy of circularity, and the strategy of entrapment. The temporal configuration of Judges and especially the nonlinear chronology that chapters 17-21 expose also receive due attention. All of this offers fresh insights into the place and function of Judges 17-21 in the context of the whole book.
Author : Barbara Voglino
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838638333
The fact is, nothing in O'Neill's forty-five theatrical endeavors of varying merit prior to 1939 suggests the unmistakable touch of genius which radiates from his last plays - A Touch of the Poet (1939), The Iceman Cometh (1940), Long Day's Journey into Night (1941), Hughie (1942), and A Moon for the Misbegotten (1943)."--BOOK JACKET. "At least one valid explanation for this phenomenon is the greatly improved endings of the late plays."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : David Hill,James N. Hardin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571131744
Carefully focused essays on major aspects of one of the most significant German literary movements, the Storm and Stress.
Author : Friederike Eigler,Susanne Kord
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781567507522
Today, a multiplicity of feminist approaches has become an integral part of the fields of German literary and cultural studies. This comprehensive reference provides a much needed synthesis of the contribution women have made to German literature and culture. In entries for more than 500 topics, the volume surveys literary periods, epochs, and genres; critical approaches and theories; important authors and works; female stereotypes; laws and historical developments; literary concepts and themes; and organizations and archives relevant to women and women's studies. Each entry offers a concise identification of the term, a discussion of its significance, and a bibliography of works for further reading. Today, a multiplicity of feminist approaches has become an integral part of the fields of German literary and cultural studies. While biographical works on women writers exist, this is the first reference to synthesize the wealth of feminist scholarship in German studies. While existing reference works focus exclusively on women authors, this volume contains numerous topical entries and covers the role of women in German literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present day. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on more than 500 topics. While some entries are provided for important women writers and other individuals, the bulk of the volume provides information on literary periods, epochs, and genres; critical approaches and theories; female stereotypes; laws and historical developments; literary concepts and themes; and organizations and archives relevant to women and women's studies. Each entry includes a brief identification of the subject, a discussion of feminist thought on the topic, and a brief bibliography. Entries are written by numerous contributors and reflect a range of critical/theoretical approaches.
Author : Stephen Watt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0472108727
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 : Michael Vanden Heuvel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472082485
Examines how the intertwining paths of avant-garde theater and mainstream drama work to produce provocative new forms
Author : June Schlueter
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838635830
Examples of plays from Oedipus to the present appear throughout the book, and individual chapters are dedicated to sustained discussions of William Shakespeare's King Lear, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arthur Miller's The Ride Down Mount Morgan, and Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire. The author emphasizes Shakespeare and, especially, modern drama in the belief that these plays provide salient models of the theoretical principles of reading toward closure.
Author : Katharina Gerstenberger,Richard E. Schade
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814326803
Author : Andrew Sofer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472068393
Fresh and provocative readings of familiar stage objects provide new ways of understanding theater, dramatic literature, and culture
Author : Stipa Madland
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789004654594
Author : Brian Richardson
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0814208959
This anthology brings together essential essays on major facets of narrative dynamics, that is, the means by which "narratives traverse their often unlikely routes from beginning to end." It includes the most widely cited and discussed essays on narrative beginnings, temporality, plot and emplotment, sequence and progression, closure, and frames. The text is designed as a basic reader for graduate courses in narrative and critical theory across disciplines including literature, drama and theatre, and film. Narrative Dynamics includes such classic exponents as E. M. Forster on story and plot; Vladimir Propp on the structure of the folktale; R. S. Crane on plot; Boris Tomashevsky on story, plot, and, motif; M. M. Bakhtin on the chronotope; and Gerard Genette on narrative time. Richardson highlights essential feminist essays by Nancy K. Miller on plot and plausibility, Rachel Blau Duplessis on closure, and Susan Winnett on narrative and desire. These are complimented by newer pieces by Susan Stanford Friedman on spatialization and Robyn Warhol on serial fiction. Other major contributions include Edward Said on beginnings, Hayden White on historical narrative, Peter Brooks on plot, Paul Ricoeur on time, D. A. Miller on closure, James Phelan on progression, and Jacques Derrida on the frame. Recent essays from the perspective of cultural studies, postmodernism, and artificial intelligence bring this collection right up to the present.
Author : Jeanne Marie Colleran,Jenny S. Spencer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472066714
Fresh perspectives on political theater and its essential contribution to contemporary culture. Focused studies of individual plays complement broad-based discussions of the place of theater in a radically democratic society. This consistently challenging collection describes the art of change confronting the actual processes of change. 17 photos.
Author : Mark Pizzato
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472109146
Investigates the reasons for postmodern theory's fascination with theater
