Format:
239 S.
,
21 cm
ISBN:
9783631613795
Content:
"This is a collection of ten long essays arranged around the primordial subject of realism and non-realism, or anti-realism, in the drama, as this subject manifests itself in modern Europe and contemporary America from Ibsen to Shaw to the symbolists, expressionists, surrealists, dadaists, futurists, and absurdists. This book treats not only the issue of realism versus anti-realism in theater from a practical as well as a theoretical point of view. It also treats at least two subjects related to this issue: the superfical or bourgeois realism that has long crippled the theater versus the critical and sometimes poetic realism that liberates it; and the avant-garde, the rearguard, and the middle-to-advanced artistic ground in between claimed by Bertolt Brecht and Harold Pinter. Special attention is paid, moreover, to the first thoroughgoing American avant-garde dramatist, Gertrude Stein. In sum, this book treats the subject of realism and non-realism from the point of view of the theater's ability to create not only the illusion of reality onstage, but also the reality of illusion"--Publisher's description, back cover
Note:
Literaturangaben
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"The drama has not yet come, or Look back in longing" -- "The pillar of Ibsenian drama : Henrik Ibsen and the 'Pillars of Society', reconsidered -- "August Strindberg, 'The Ghost Sonata', and the making of modern drama -- Comedy and tragedy according to Shaw -- "Shaw, 'The Philanderer', and the (un)making of Shavian drama" -- "The doctored dilemma : Shaw's approach to tragedy in 'The Doctor's Dilemma' -- "The difficult B. B., the complex E. T. : rethinking the theory and practice of Brechtian theater" -- "The unbearable lightness of being : Getrude Stein's 'Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights' in the light of the twentieth century" -- "Bourgeois realism, imagistic abstraction, and the drama of Harold Pinter -- The idea of the avant-garde -- "In the vanguard : the military, scientific, and philosophical origens of theatrical avant-gardism" "'The avant-garde, the absurd, the un-American, and the postmodern : experimental theater and drama in the twentieth century, from Europe to the United States."
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Drama
;
Geschichte 1900-1950
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Cardullo, Bert 1948-
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