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Staging Masculinity

Author : Carla J. McDonough
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786427361
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Staging Masculinity written by Carla J. McDonough and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-07-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The men in plays such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman or Sam Shephard's True West are often presented as universal; little attention is given to the gender dynamics involved in the characters. This work looks at how contemporary playwrights, including Miller, Shepard, Eugene O'Neill, David Mamet, and August Wilson, stage masculinity in their works. It becomes apparent that male playwrights return often to the issues of troubled manhood, usually masked in other issues such as war, business or family. The plays indicate both the attractiveness of the model of traditional masculinity and the illusive nature of this image, which all too often fractures and fails the characters who pursue it. O'Neill's play The Hairy Ape and the character Yank receive much attention.

Staging Masculinity

Author : Erik Gunderson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472111398
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Staging Masculinity written by Erik Gunderson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000-11-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines ancient notions of what constitutes a "good man"

Staging Masculinity

Author : Erik Gunderson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472111396
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Staging Masculinity written by Erik Gunderson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000-11-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines ancient notions of what constitutes a "good man"

Staging Masculinities

Author : Michael Mangan
Publisher : Red Globe Press
ISBN 13 : 9780333720196
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Staging Masculinities written by Michael Mangan and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 2003-01-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man in his time plays many parts/His acts being seven ages', asserts Shakespeare's Jacques, in a speech which foreshadows what has become a commonplace of contemporary gender theory: that masculinity, far from being a secure, unproblematic gender identity, is a site of crisis and contradictions. Staging Masculinities engages with the complex and paradoxical history of masculinities by exploring the ways in which changing concepts of what it means 'to be a man' have been represented, celebrated, examined and critiqued on mainstream Western - and particularly English - stages. Mapping a history of masculinities onto a history of theatre, Michael Mangan analyses a wide range of plays and performances, from Henry V to Peter Pan, and from medieval liturgical drama to contemporary West-End hits. In the process Mangan offers new and gendered readings of several familiar plays, and traces an intricate relationship between theatrical performance and gender performance.

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre

Author : Sean Metzger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350123188
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre written by Sean Metzger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to contemporary debates and theatre practices at a time when gender paradigms are both in flux and at the centre of explosive political battlegrounds. The confluence of gender and theatre has long created intense debate about representation, identification, social conditioning, desire, embodiment, and lived experience. As this handbook demonstrates, from the conventions of early modern English, Chinese, Japanese and Hispanic theatres to the subversion of racialized binaries of masculinity and femininity in recent North American, African, Asian, Caribbean and European productions, the matter of gender has consistently taken centre stage. This handbook examines how critical discourses on gender intersect with key debates in the field of theatre studies, as a lens to illuminate the practices of gender and theatre as well as the societies they inform and represent across space and time. Of interest to scholars in the interrelated areas of feminist, gender and sexuality studies, theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, and globalization and diasporic studies, this book demonstrates how researchers are currently addressing theatre about gender issues and gendered theatre practices. While synthesizing and summarizing foundational and evolving debates from a contemporary perspective, this collection offers interpretations and analyses that do not simply look back at existing scholarship, but open up new possibilities and understandings. Featuring essential research tools, including a survey of keywords and an annotated play list, this is an indispensable scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance.

Masculinity in Opera

Author : Philip Purvis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136182160
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Masculinity in Opera written by Philip Purvis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the ways in which masculinity is negotiated, constructed, represented, and problematized within operatic music and practice. Although the consideration of masculine ontology and epistemology has pervaded cultural and sociological studies since the late 1980s, and masculinity has been the focus of recent if sporadic musicological discussion, the relationship between masculinity and opera has so far escaped detailed critical scrutiny. Operating from a position of sympathy with feminist and queer approaches and the phallocentric tendencies they identify, this study offers a unique perspective on the cultural relativism of opera by focusing on the male operatic subject. Anchored by musical analysis or close readings of musical discourse, the contributions take an interdisciplinary approach by also engaging with theatre, popular music, and cultural musicology scholarship. The various musical, theoretical, and socio-political trajectories of the essays are historically dispersed from seventeenth to twentieth- first-century operatic works and practices, visiting masculinity and the operatic voice, the complication or refusal of essentialist notions of masculinity, and the operatic representation of the ‘crisis’ of masculinity. This volume will not only enliven the study of masculinity in opera, but be an appealing contribution to music scholars interested in gender, history, and new musicology.

Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors

Author : Morwenna Ludlow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192588656
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors written by Morwenna Ludlow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient authors commonly compared writing with painting. The sculpting of the soul was also a common philosophical theme. Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors takes its starting-point from such figures to recover a sense of ancient authorship as craft. The ancient concept of craft (ars, techne) spans 'high' or 'fine' art and practical or applied arts. It unites the beautiful and the useful. It includes both skills or practices (like medicine and music) and productive arts like painting, sculpting and the composition of texts. By using craft as a guiding concept for understanding fourth Christian authorship, this book recovers a sense of them engaged in a shared practice which is both beautiful and theologically useful, which shapes souls but which is also engaged in the production of texts. It focuses on Greek writers, especially the Cappadocians (Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Gregory of Nysa) and John Chrysostom, all of whom were trained in rhetoric. Through a detailed examination of their use of two particular literary techniques—ekphrasis and prosōpopoeia—it shows how they adapt and experiment with them, in order to make theological arguments and in order to evoke a response from their readership.

Acts of Manhood

Author : K. Kippola
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137068779
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Acts of Manhood written by K. Kippola and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularity to intellectual restraint as not a linear journey toward national refinement; but a multitude of masculinities fighting simultaneously for dominance and recognition.

Staging Violence

Author : Tania De Miguel Magro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367757878
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Staging Violence written by Tania De Miguel Magro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Staging Violence the author explores what is common to both the short theater and the comedia: gender violence. Through three main themes, the book deals with violence against women in the entremeses (mainly wife-battering), violence against men in the entremeses (mainly queer and older men), and violence in the jácaras.

The State of Speech

Author : Joy Connolly
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400827949
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The State of Speech written by Joy Connolly and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetorical theory, the core of Roman education, taught rules of public speaking that are still influential today. But Roman rhetoric has long been regarded as having little important to say about political ideas. The State of Speech presents a forceful challenge to this view. The first book to read Roman rhetorical writing as a mode of political thought, it focuses on Rome's greatest practitioner and theorist of public speech, Cicero. Through new readings of his dialogues and treatises, Joy Connolly shows how Cicero's treatment of the Greek rhetorical tradition's central questions is shaped by his ideal of the republic and the citizen. Rhetoric, Connolly argues, sheds new light on Cicero's deepest political preoccupations: the formation of individual and communal identity, the communicative role of the body, and the "unmanly" aspects of politics, especially civility and compromise. Transcending traditional lines between rhetorical and political theory, The State of Speech is a major contribution to the current debate over the role of public speech in Roman politics. Instead of a conventional, top-down model of power, it sketches a dynamic model of authority and consent enacted through oratorical performance and examines how oratory modeled an ethics of citizenship for the masses as well as the elite. It explains how imperial Roman rhetoricians reshaped Cicero's ideal republican citizen to meet the new political conditions of autocracy, and defends Ciceronian thought as a resource for contemporary democracy.

Staging Discomfort

Author : Bretton White
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 1683401816
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Staging Discomfort written by Bretton White and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This visionary volume examines how queer bodies are theatrically represented on the Cuban stage in ways that challenge one of the state’s primary revolutionary tools, the categorization and homogenization of individuals. Bretton White critically analyzes contemporary performances that upset traditional understandings of performer and spectator, as well as what constitutes the ideal Cuban citizenry. Following the 1959 revolution, nonconformists were monitored and reported by local committees and punished or reformed by the government. Censorship was rampant, and Cuban art suffered as the state tried to control the national message. Through the lens of queer theory, White explores how the body has been central to the state’s fear-based marginalization of gay life and looks at the ways these theatrical performances defuse that fear. She highlights the revolutionary model of masculinity and the role it plays in excluding people based upon visible queer difference. White finds that, through experimental performances of sexuality, actors create connections with audiences to evoke shared feelings of discomfort, intimacy, shame, longing, frustration, and failure, which echo the prevalence of these feelings in other Cuban spaces. By performing queerness, these plays question the state’s narrative of heteronormativity and empower citizens to negotiate alternative understandings of Cuban identity.

Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre

Author : Nancy Eileen Copeland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre written by Nancy Eileen Copeland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre studies the representation of gender in four of the most important plays by the leading professional women playwrights of the late Stuart period. Behn's The Rover (1677) and The Luckey Chance (1686) and Centlivre's The Busie Body (1709) and The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret (1714) are first placed in their original theatrical and cultural contexts and then studied through subsequent productions and adaptations extending from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. The detailed analysis of these plays is framed by a discussion of the cultural position of the playwrights and the kind of comedy they wrote. The survival of these plays in the repertoire offers an unusual opportunity to examine the theatrical 'double life' of works by early women playwrights. The lengthy production histories of these comedies placed them in dialogue with radically different ideas of appropriate and permissible behavior for both women and men. The resulting productions, alterations, and adaptations included both feminist reinterpretations and recuperations of the plays' challenges to dominant meanings of gender. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of dramatic literature, theatre, and women's studies.

Remix Multilingualism

Author : Quentin Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472591135
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Remix Multilingualism written by Quentin Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Remixing multilingualism" is conceptualised in this book as engaging in the linguistic act of using, combining and manipulating multilingual forms. It is about creating new ways of 'doing' multilingualism through cultural acts and identities and involving a process that invokes bricolage. This book is an ethnographic study of multilingual remixing achieved by highly multilingual participants in the local hip hop culture of Cape Town. In globalised societies today previously marginalized speakers are carving out new and innovating spaces to put on display their voices and identities through the creative use of multilingualism. This book contributes to the development of new conceptual insights and theoretical developments on multilingualism in the global South by applying the notions of stylization, performance, performativity, entextualisation and enregisterment. This takes place through interviews, performance analysis and interactional analysis, showing how young multilingual speakers stage different personae, styles, registers and language varieties.

Time and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage

Author : Sarah Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108842194
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Time and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage written by Sarah Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original study of the ways in which temporal concepts and gendered identities intersect in early modern theatre and culture.

Staging Governance

Author : Daniel O'Quinn
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801879616
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Staging Governance written by Daniel O'Quinn and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the same time, official speeches and proceedings on colonial practices, such as the public trials of Clive and Hastings, became theatrical events themselves."--Jacket.

Staging Masculinities

Author : Michael Mangan
Publisher : Palgrave
ISBN 13 : 9780333720189
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Staging Masculinities written by Michael Mangan and published by Palgrave. This book was released on 2002-10-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man in his time plays many parts/His acts being seven ages', asserts Shakespeare's Jacques, in a speech which foreshadows what has become a commonplace of contemporary gender theory: that masculinity, far from being a secure, unproblematic gender identity, is a site of crisis and contradictions. Staging Masculinities engages with the complex and paradoxical history of masculinities by exploring the ways in which changing concepts of what it means 'to be a man' have been represented, celebrated, examined and critiqued on mainstream Western - and particularly English - stages. Mapping a history of masculinities onto a history of theatre, Michael Mangan analyses a wide range of plays and performances, from Henry V to Peter Pan, and from medieval liturgical drama to contemporary West-End hits. In the process Mangan offers new and gendered readings of several familiar plays, and traces an intricate relationship between theatrical performance and gender performance.

Figuring the Feminine

Author : Jill Ross
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442691174
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Figuring the Feminine written by Jill Ross and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figuring the Feminine examines the female body as a means of articulating questions of literary authority and practice within the cultural spheres of the Iberian Peninsula (both Romance and Semitic) as well as in the larger Latinate literary culture. It demonstrates the centrality in medieval literary culture of the gendering of rhetorical and hermeneutical acts involved in the creation of texts and meaning, and the importance of the medieval Iberian textual tradition in this process, a complex multicultural tradition that is often overlooked in medieval literary scholarship. This study adopts an innovative methodology informed by current theories of the body and gender to approach Hispanic literature from a femininst perspective. Jill Ross offers new readings of medieval Hispanic texts (Latin, Castilian, and Hebrew) including Prudentius' Peristephanon, Gonzalo de Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Señora, Shem Tov of Carrión's Battle Between the Pen and the Scissors, and several others. She highlights ways in which these texts contribute to the understanding of gender in medieval poetics and foreground questions of literary and cultural import. Figuring the Feminine argues that the bodies of women are crucial to the working out of such questions as the unsettling shift from orality to literacy, textual instability, cultural dissonance, and the resistance to cultural and religious hegemony.