Text and Presentation
Karelisa Hartigan(Author)
University Press of America
9th Edition
Published on 24. May 1989
Book
Hardback
178 pages
978-0-8191-7420-8 (ISBN)
Description
A selection of the best of the papers presented at the 1986 Comparative Drama Conference held at the University of Florida, under the auspices of the Department of Classics. Contents: Leon and lena (lenz): Iridescent Reality; Hamletmaschine on Two Stage: Heiner Muller's Allegories and the Problem of Translation; Eliot, "Epipsychidion", and the Post-Modern Wasteland: Allusion in Simon Gray's Butley and Peter Gill's Mean Tears,; Schiller and Tamayo: The Influential Essay; Craig and Duse in the Charnel-House "Rosmersholm"; Dramatic Contraries: The Paine Histories of Hanns Johst and Howard Fast; Suicide Notes in Euripides' Hippolytus; Your Lips Are Better Than Weather: Primitive Psychology in Nikolai Gogol's Inspector General; Sanskrit Drama and Fin-De-Siecle Germany Frank Wedekind's Sonnenspektrum and Lion Feuchtwanger'Vasantasena; The Performance Text: Sophocles and Buchner Made Contemporaneous; How Myth Means and Functions; Man and Superman: Drama as Clash Between Social and Spiritual Exigencies; Making Serious Money: Caryl Churchill and Post-Modernist Comedy; The Through-Line of Meaning: The A-Effect in Mother Courage and Brecht.^R Co-published with the University of Florida, Department of Classics, Comparative Drama Conference.
Reviews / Votes
...a broadly-based and widely ranging set of essays of the high quality and intellectual probity typical of earlier volumes in the series....a valuable addition to the literature which treats texts as performance media. -- Alan Woods, Lawrence & Lee Theatre Research Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus ...a broadly-based and widely ranging set of essays of the high quality and intellectual probity typical of earlier volumes in the series....a valuable addition to the literature which treats texts as performance media. -- Alan Woods, Lawrence & Lee Theatre Research Institute, Ohio State University, ColumbusMore details
Series
Edition
9th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8191-7420-8 (9780819174208)
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