Postmodern/drama

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472108725
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis Postmodern/drama by : Stephen Watt

Download or read book Postmodern/drama written by Stephen Watt and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Memory-theater and Postmodern Drama

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472110377
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Memory-theater and Postmodern Drama by : Jeanette R. Malkin

Download or read book Memory-theater and Postmodern Drama written by Jeanette R. Malkin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a new way of defining--and understanding--postmodern drama

Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443862932
Total Pages : 135 pages
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Book Synopsis Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama by : Mufti Mudasir

Download or read book Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama written by Mufti Mudasir and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a study of Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard, arguably the two most eminent British playwrights of the past sixty years or so, from a perspective of what it describes as a poetics of postmodern drama. Arguing for the application of Linda Hutcheon’s model of postmodernism to the study of drama, Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama shows that postmodern drama should be seen as a self-consciously contradictory and double-coded phenomenon, one which simultaneously inscribes and subverts the conventional categories of dramatic representation. In spite of its indebtedness to Beckett’s Absurdist and Brecht’s Epic theaters, postmodern drama should not be conflated with either. This is primarily because postmodern drama retains a critical edge towards contemporary reality in a manner which Hutcheon very aptly terms as a ‘complicitous critique’. The book demonstrates that both Pinter and Stoppard are pre-eminently postmodern in their treatment of issues such as the human subject, the notion of truth, historical verifiability and linguistic reference. Pinter’s preoccupation with non-referential modes of language-use, the role of power in the construction of the subject, and unreliable memories is as potent a way of disrupting the representational status of drama as Stoppard’s repeated recourse to devices such as parody, theater-within-theater and the fictional treatment of history.

Postmodern Drama

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Publisher : Lanham, MD : University Press of America
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
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Book Synopsis Postmodern Drama by : Rodney Simard

Download or read book Postmodern Drama written by Rodney Simard and published by Lanham, MD : University Press of America. This book was released on 1984 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drama and the Postmodern

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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 162196938X
Total Pages : 394 pages
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The Theater of Transformation

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401202478
Total Pages : 230 pages
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Book Synopsis The Theater of Transformation by : Kerstin Schmidt

Download or read book The Theater of Transformation written by Kerstin Schmidt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521648400
Total Pages : 260 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism by : Steven Connor

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism written by Steven Connor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism offers a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism. The Companion examines the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant impact on contemporary cultural production and thinking. Topics discussed by experts in the field include postmodernism's relation to modernity, and its significance and relevance to literature, film, law, philosophy, architecture, religion and modern cultural studies. The volume also includes a useful guide to further reading and a chronology. This is an essential aid for students and teachers from a range of disciplines interested in postmodernism in all its incarnations. Accessible and comprehensive, this Companion addresses the many issues surrounding this elusive, enigmatic and often controversial topic.

A Companion to American Literature

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119653355
Total Pages : 1864 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to American Literature by : Susan Belasco

Download or read book A Companion to American Literature written by Susan Belasco and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 1864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Beginning Postmodernism

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719052118
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (521 download)

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Book Synopsis Beginning Postmodernism by : Tim Woods

Download or read book Beginning Postmodernism written by Tim Woods and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Postmodernism" has become the buzzword of contemporary society. Yet it remains baffling in its variety of definitions, contexts and associations. Beginning Postmodernism aims to offer clear, accessible and step-by-step introductions to postmodernism across a wide range of subjects. It encourages readers to explore how the debates about postmodernism have emerged from basic philosophical and cultural ideas. With its emphasis firmly on "postmodernism in practice," the book contains exercises and questions designed to help readers understand and reflect upon a variety of positions in the following areas of contemporary culture: philosophy and cultural theory; architecture and concepts of space; visual art; sculpture and the design arts; popular culture and music; film, video and television culture; and the social sciences.

American Drama and the Postmodern

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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621969843
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Postmodern Theater and the Void of Conceptions

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443806358
Total Pages : 158 pages
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Book Synopsis Postmodern Theater and the Void of Conceptions by : William S. Haney II

Download or read book Postmodern Theater and the Void of Conceptions written by William S. Haney II and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Different symbolic traditions have different ways of describing the shift of awareness toward sacred events. While not conforming to familiar states of phenomenality, this shift of awareness corresponds to Turner's liminal phase, Artaud's metaphysical embodiment, Grotowski's “translumination,” Brook's “holy theater,” and Barba's “transcendent” theater—all of which are linked to the Advaitan taste of a void of conceptions. This book argues that, by allowing to come what Derrida calls the unsayable, the theater of Tom Stoppard, David Henry Hwang, Caryl Churchill, Sam Shepard, Derek Walcott and Girish Karnad induces characters and spectators to deconstruct habitual patterns of perception, attenuate the content of consciousness, and taste the void of conceptions. As the nine plays discussed in this book suggest, the internal observer lies behind all cultural constructs as a silent beyond-ness, and immanently within knowledge as its generative condition of unknowingness. The unsayable (and the language used to convey it) that Derrida finds in literature has clear affinities with the Brahman-Atman of Advaita Vedanta. Derridean deconstruction contains as a subtext the structure of consciousness that it both veils with the undecidable trappings of the mind and allows to come as an unsayable secret through a play of difference. Although Derrida views theater and the text as mutually deconstructing and claims that presence or unity “has always already begun to represent itself,” the six playwrights discussed here show that cultural performance indeed points through its universally ambiguous and symbolic types toward a trans-verbal, trans-cultural wholeness.

The Play Within the Play

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042022574
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis The Play Within the Play by : Gerhard Fischer

Download or read book The Play Within the Play written by Gerhard Fischer and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirty chapters of this innovative international study are all devoted to the topic of the play within the play. The authors explore the wide range of aesthetic, literary-theoretical and philosophical issues associated with this rhetorical device, not only in terms of its original meta-theatrical setting - from the baroque idea of a theatrum mundi onward to contemporary examples of postmodern self-referential dramaturgy - but also with regard to a variety of different generic applications, e.g. in narrative fiction, musical theatre and film. The authors, internationally recognized specialists in their respective fields, draw on recent debates in such areas as postcolonial studies, game and systems theories, media and performance studies, to analyze the specific qualities and characteristics of the play within the play: as ultimate affirmation of the 'self' (the 'Hamlet paradigm'), as a self-reflective agency of meta-theatrical discourse, and as a vehicle of intermedial and intercultural transformation. The challenging study, with its underlying premise of play as a key feature of cultural anthropology and human creativity, breaks new ground by placing the play within the play at the centre of a number of intersecting scholarly discourses on areas of topical concern to scholars in the humanities.

Double Binds

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Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051834192
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (341 download)

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Book Synopsis Double Binds by : Johan Callens

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Zeitgeist in Babel

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253206114
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Book Synopsis Zeitgeist in Babel by : Ingeborg Hoesterey

Download or read book Zeitgeist in Babel written by Ingeborg Hoesterey and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-22 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays which indicate the "complex constellation of greatly differing interpretive formations concerning the term postmodernism."

Cultural Studies - Vol 12.2

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415184267
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (842 download)

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Book Synopsis Cultural Studies - Vol 12.2 by : Lawrence Grossberg

Download or read book Cultural Studies - Vol 12.2 written by Lawrence Grossberg and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998-06-18 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Performing Drama/dramatizing Performance : the Interface Between Experimental Theatre and Postmodern Drama, 1960-present

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Total Pages : 624 pages
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The Public Relations of Everything

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136181024
Total Pages : 248 pages
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Book Synopsis The Public Relations of Everything by : Robert E. Brown

Download or read book The Public Relations of Everything written by Robert E. Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public relations of "everything" takes the radical position that public relations is a profoundly different creature than a generation of its scholars and teachers have portrayed it. Today, it is clearly no longer limited, if it ever has been, to the management of communication in and between organizations. Rather, it has become an activity engaged in by everyone, and for the most basic human reasons: as an act of self-creation, self-expression, and self-protection. The book challenges both popular dismissals and ill-informed repudiations of public relations, as well as academic and classroom misconceptions. In the age of digitization and social media, everyone with a smart phone, Twitter and Facebook accounts, and the will and skill to use them, is in the media. The PR of everything – the ubiquitousness of public relations – takes a perspective that is less concerned with ideas of communication and information than with experience and drama, a way of looking at public relations inside out, upside down and from a micro rather than a macro level. Based on a combination of the research of PR practice and critical-thinking analysis of theory, and founded in the author’s extensive corporate experience, this book will be invaluable reading for scholars and practitioners alike in Public Relations, Communications and Social Media.