Modern Drama: Defining the Field (Heritage) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802086217 ISBN 13: 9780802086211

Verlag: University of Toronto Pre, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Theatre, like other subjects in the humanities, has recently undergone quintessential changes in theory, approach, and research. Modern Drama - a collection of twelve essays from leading theatre and drama scholars - investigates the contemporary meanings and the cultural and political resonances of the terms inherent in the concepts of 'modern' and 'drama,' delving into a range of theoretical questions on the history of modernism, modernity, postmodernism, and postmodernity as they have intersected with the shifting histories of drama, theatre, and performance. Using incisive analyses of both modern and postmodern plays, 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.

Including work by Sue-Ellen Case, Elin Diamond, Harry J. Elam Jr, Alan Filewod, Erika Fischer-Lichte, Stanton B. Garner Jr, Shannon Jackson, Loren Kruger, Josephine Lee, David Savran, Michael Sidnell, and Ann Wilson, the collection highlights the importance of continuing to investigate not only critical texts but also the terms of the debate themselves. Incorporating both drama history and modern studies, this compilation will be an invaluable work to all scholars of theatre and drama, and as well as those students of the humanities and modernism.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Ric Knowles is a professor of drama at the University of Guelph and a member of faculty at the Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama, University of Toronto. Joanne Tompkins is a lecturer in Diverse Cultures, Sociology of Education, and First Nations Education in the Department of Education at St Francis Xavier University. W.B. Worthen is a professor of Drama at the University of California, Berkeley.

Ric Knowles is a professor of Drama at the University of Guelph and a member of faculty at the Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama, University of Toronto. Joanne Tompkins is an associate professor and reader in Drama at the University of Queensland. W.B. Worthen is a professor of Drama at the University of California, Berkeley.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Toronto Pre
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0802086217
• ISBN 13: 9780802086211
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 226
• Herausgeber: Knowles Ric, Tompkins Joanne Elizabeth, Worthen W.B.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande