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Modern Drama : Defining the Field.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Heritage SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (227 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442620926
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Modern DramaDDC classification:
  • 809.2/04
LOC classification:
  • PN1861 .M553 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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