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Modern Drama : Defining the Field.

Knowles, Ric.

Modern Drama : Defining the Field. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (227 pages) - Heritage Series . - Heritage Series .

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Modern Drama/Modernity's Drama -- Aesthetic Prejudice in Modern Drama -- Why Modern Plays Are Not Culture: Disciplinary Blind Spots -- Quo Vadis? Theatre Studies at the Crossroads -- Physiologies of the Modern: Zola, Experimental Medicine, and the Naturalist Stage -- Making Sense of Sensation: Enlightenment, Embodiment, and the End(s) of Modern Drama -- Luminous Writing, Embodiment, and Modern Drama: Mme Blavatsky and Bertolt Brecht -- The Haunted Houses of Modernity -- Hauntings: Anxiety, Technology, and Gender in Peter Pan -- Bodies, Revolutions, and Magic: Cultural Nationalism and Racial Fetishism -- Modernism and Genocide: Citing Minstrelsy in Postcolonial Agitprop -- August Wilson, Doubling, Madness, and Modern African-American Drama -- WORKS CITED -- CONTRIBUTORS.

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.

9781442620926


Drama-20th century-History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PN1861 .M553 2003

809.2/04

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