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The Absent Father In Modern Drama
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Author :Paul Rosefeldt Publisher :Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers ISBN 13 : Total Pages :184 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis The Absent Father in Modern Drama by : Paul Rosefeldt
Download or read book The Absent Father in Modern Drama written by Paul Rosefeldt and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the Freudians to the feminists, the role of the absent or hidden father figure has played a part in narrative and cultural theory. This work presents the first full-length examination of the absent father in modern drama. It closely analyzes major works by Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Williams, Miller, Shepard, Rabe, Henley, Norman, Pielmeier, Shaffer, Osborne, Churchill, and Fugard. Using the critical framework of psychological, deconstructive, and myth criticism, this book demonstrates how the consistent focus on an imposing father figure who never physically appears onstage affects the psychological, social, and metaphysical structure of major modern dramas."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis The Absent Father in Modern Drama by : Paul Nagim Rosefeldt
Download or read book The Absent Father in Modern Drama written by Paul Nagim Rosefeldt and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Understanding Beth Henley by : Robert J. Andreach
Download or read book Understanding Beth Henley written by Robert J. Andreach and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beth Henley remains best known for 'Crimes of the Heart', a play that won the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and later was made into a major motion picture. This introduction to the Mississippi-born playwright and her body of work presents Henley's plays as a unified whole.
Book Synopsis Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama by : Graham Saunders
Download or read book Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama written by Graham Saunders and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines British playwrights' responses to the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries since 1945, from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead to Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem. Using the work of Julie Sanders and others working in the fields of Adaptation Studies and intertextual criticism, it argues that this relatively neglected area of drama, widely considered to be adaptation, should instead be considered as appropriation - as work that often mounts challenges to the ideologies and orthodoxies within Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and questions the legitimacy and cultural authority of Shakespeare’s legacy. The book discusses the work of Howard Barker, Peter Barnes, Edward Bond, Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Elaine Feinstein and the Women’s Theatre Group, David Greig, Sarah Kane, Dennis Kelly, Bernard Kopps, Charles Marowitz, Julia Pascal and Arnold Wesker.
Book Synopsis Absent Fathers, Lost Sons by : Guy Corneau
Download or read book Absent Fathers, Lost Sons written by Guy Corneau and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An experience of the fragility of conventional images of masculinity is something many modern men share. Psychoanalyst Guy Corneau traces this experience to an even deeper feeling men have of their fathers' silence or absence—sometimes literal, but especially emotional and spiritual. Why is this feeling so profound in the lives of the postwar "baby boom" generation—men who are now approaching middle age? Because, he says, this generation marks a critical phase in the loss of the masculine initiation rituals that in the past ensured a boy's passage into manhood. In his engaging examination of the many different ways this missing link manifests in men's lives, Corneau shows that, for men today, regaining the essential "second birth" into manhood lies in gaining the ability to be a father to themselves—not only as a means of healing psychological pain, but as a necessary step in the process of becoming whole.
Book Synopsis A History of Modern Drama, Volume II by : David Krasner
Download or read book A History of Modern Drama, Volume II written by David Krasner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Modern Drama: Volume II explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama from 1960 through to the dawn of the new millennium. Features detailed analyses of plays and playwrights, examining the influence of a wide range of writers, from mainstream icons such as Harold Pinter and Edward Albee, to more unorthodox works by Peter Weiss and Sarah Kane Provides global coverage of both English and non-English dramas – including works from Africa and Asia to the Middle East Considers the influence of art, music, literature, architecture, society, politics, culture, and philosophy on the formation of postmodern dramatic literature Combines wide-ranging topics with original theories, international perspective, and philosophical and cultural context Completes a comprehensive two-part work examining modern world drama, and alongside A History of Modern Drama: Volume I, offers readers complete coverage of a full century in the evolution of global dramatic literature.
Book Synopsis A Study Guide for Beth Henley's "The Miss Firecracker Contest" by : Gale, Cengage Learning
Download or read book A Study Guide for Beth Henley's "The Miss Firecracker Contest" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Beth Henley's "The Miss Firecracker Contest," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Book Synopsis Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction by : Kirsten Shepherd-Barr
Download or read book Modern Drama: A Very Short Introduction written by Kirsten Shepherd-Barr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of modern drama is a tale of extremes, testing both audiences and actors to their limits through hostility and contrarianism. Spanning 1880 to the present, Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr shows how truly international a phenomenon modern drama has become, and how vibrant and diverse in both text and performance. This Very Short Introduction explores the major developments of modern drama, covering two decades per chapter, from early modernist theatre through post-war developments to more recent and contemporary theatre. Shepherd-Barr tracks the emergence of new theories from the likes of Brecht and Beckett alongside groundbreaking productions to illuminate the fascinating evolution of modern drama. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Book Synopsis David Mamet and American Macho by : Arthur Holmberg
Download or read book David Mamet and American Macho written by Arthur Holmberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be an American man? Holmberg demonstrates how David Mamet's plays explore complex issues of masculinity.
Book Synopsis Problem Fathers in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama by : Tom MacFaul
Download or read book Problem Fathers in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama written by Tom MacFaul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the central role of fathers in the plays of Shakespeare and a wide range of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.
Book Synopsis Understanding Marsha Norman by : Lisa Tyler
Download or read book Understanding Marsha Norman written by Lisa Tyler and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning play 'night, Mother and her acclaimed adaptations of The Secret Garden and The Color Purple for musical theater, Marsha Norman has produced an impressive oeuvre that includes not only works for the stage but also a novel and several television screenplays. The first book on the Louisville-born writer in twenty years, Understanding Marsha Norman introduces readers to her life and work while making a persuasive case for her preeminence among America's leading dramatic artists. Following a biographical introduction, the book examines such early plays as Getting Out, Third and Oak, and Circus Valentine, which, according to the playwright herself, taught her the skills she needed to write her more successful works—most notably the much-lauded two-character drama 'night, Mother, which centers around an apparently rational young woman's choice to commit suicide. Subsequent chapters examine Norman's underrated novel The Fortune Teller and three mid-career plays that rewrite the traditions of the Western, the biblical story of Sarah and Abraham, and the legend of Daniel Boone. Her more recent plays, including Trudy Blue, 140, and Last Dance, acknowledge the limitations of romantic relationships, while her forays into musical theater and television, including scripts for such programs as Law and Order: Criminal Intent and the Peabody-winning HBO series In Treatment, signal a dramatist who is ever willing to take risks and venture into new genres. At her best when writing about interesting and troubled women and their relationships with each other, Norman has received much less critical attention than male contemporaries such as Sam Shepard and David Mamet. This engaging and edifying book helps rectify that disparity.
Book Synopsis Millennial Masculinity by : Timothy Shary
Download or read book Millennial Masculinity written by Timothy Shary and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film and television scholars as well as readers interested in gender and sexuality in film will appreciate this timely collection.
Book Synopsis Anxious Masculinity in the Drama of Arthur Miller and Beyond by : Claire Gleitman
Download or read book Anxious Masculinity in the Drama of Arthur Miller and Beyond written by Claire Gleitman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the anxious male breadwinner as he is incarnated in Arthur Miller's most celebrated plays and as he resurfaces in different guises throughout American drama, from the 1950s to the present. It offers a compelling analysis of gender dynamics – staunchly homosocial, vaguely or overtly misogynistic, anxiously homophobic – and the legacy of this figure in the works of other American dramatists. Throughout, the book argues that the gendered anxieties exhibited by the anxious male breadwinner are the very ones invoked with such success by Donald Trump. Gleitman examines this figure in the plays of Tennessee Williams, later 20th century writers Lorraine Hansberry, David Mamet, August Wilson, and Sam Shepard (who reposition him in more racially and economically marginalized settings), and in the more recent work of Tony Kushner, Paula Vogel, and Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori, who shift their focus to the next generation, which seeks to escape his clutches and forge new, often gleefully queer identities. The final chapter concerns contemporary Black dramatists Suzan-Lori Parks, Jackie Sibblies Drury, and Jeremy O. Harris, whose plays move us from anxious masculinity to anxious whiteness and speak directly to the current moment.
Book Synopsis The Father-Daughter Plot by : Rebecca L. Copeland
Download or read book The Father-Daughter Plot written by Rebecca L. Copeland and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-07-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative collection of essays is a comprehensive study of the "father-daughter dynamic" in Japanese female literary experience. Its contributors examine the ways in which women have been placed politically, ideologically, and symbolically as "daughters" in a culture that venerates "the father." They weigh the impact that this daughterly position has had on both the performance and production of women's writing from the classical period to the present. Conjoining the classical and the modern with a unified theme reveals an important continuum in female authorship-a historical approach often ignored by scholars. The essays devoted to the literature of the classical period discuss canonical texts in a new light, offering important feminist readings that challenge existing scholarship, while those dedicated to modern writers introduce readers to little-known texts with translations and readings that are engaging and original. Contributors: Tomoko Aoyama, Sonja Arntzen, Janice Brown, Rebecca L. Copeland, Midori McKeon, Eileen Mikals-Adachi, Joshua S. Mostow, Sharalyn Orbaugh, Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen, Edith Sarra, Atsuko Sasaki, Ann Sherif.
Book Synopsis The Dead Father by : Donald Barthelme
Download or read book The Dead Father written by Donald Barthelme and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterious goal. In this extraordinary novel, marked by the imaginative use of language that influenced a generation of fiction writers, Donald Barthelme offered a glimpse into his fictional universe. As Donald Antrim writes in his introduction, "Reading The Dead Father, one has the sense that its author enjoys an almost complete artistic freedom . . . a permission to reshape, misrepresent, or even ignore the world as we find it . . . Laughing along with its author, we escape anxiety and feel alive."
Book Synopsis One Hundred Lectures on the Ancient and Modern Dramatic Poets,... Down to the 19th Century, Commencing with Thespic, 6th Century B.C.: lectures on the Greek poets, Grecian history mythology, Athenian comedy, English tragedy, and burlesque by : Benjamin Charles Jones
Download or read book One Hundred Lectures on the Ancient and Modern Dramatic Poets,... Down to the 19th Century, Commencing with Thespic, 6th Century B.C.: lectures on the Greek poets, Grecian history mythology, Athenian comedy, English tragedy, and burlesque written by Benjamin Charles Jones and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium by : Ya-chen Chen
Download or read book Women in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium written by Ya-chen Chen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and Gender in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium, by Ya-chen Chen, examines underexposed gender issues in more recent films, focusing on the contradictory feminism in the film narratives. Through the lens of Chinese martial arts films, Chen delves into "Chinese cinematic martial arts feminism," highlighting the glass ceiling which marks the maximal exercise of feminism which the patriarchal order is willing to accept.
