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Stage Fright : Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (247 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801877766
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Stage FrightDDC classification:
  • 809.2/9112/0904
LOC classification:
  • PN1851 .P83 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I - The Invention of Theatricality -- Chapter 1 - Richard Wagner: The Theatocracy of the Mime -- Part II - The Modernist Closet Drama -- Chapter 2 - Stéphane Mallarmé: The Theater in the Closet -- Chapter 3 - James Joyce: Novel and Drama in Ulysses -- Chapter 4 - Gertrude Stein: Four Saints in Three Acts- A Closet Drama to Be Performed -- Part III - The Diegetic Theater -- Chapter 5 - William Butler Yeats: Poetic Voices in Theatrical Space -- Chapter 6 - Bertolt Brecht: The Theater on a Leash -- Chapter 7 - Samuel Beckett: Actors in Barrels and Gestures in the Text -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: While offering an alternative history of modernist theater and literature, Puchner provides a new account of the contradictory forces within modernism.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I - The Invention of Theatricality -- Chapter 1 - Richard Wagner: The Theatocracy of the Mime -- Part II - The Modernist Closet Drama -- Chapter 2 - Stéphane Mallarmé: The Theater in the Closet -- Chapter 3 - James Joyce: Novel and Drama in Ulysses -- Chapter 4 - Gertrude Stein: Four Saints in Three Acts- A Closet Drama to Be Performed -- Part III - The Diegetic Theater -- Chapter 5 - William Butler Yeats: Poetic Voices in Theatrical Space -- Chapter 6 - Bertolt Brecht: The Theater on a Leash -- Chapter 7 - Samuel Beckett: Actors in Barrels and Gestures in the Text -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

While offering an alternative history of modernist theater and literature, Puchner provides a new account of the contradictory forces within modernism.

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