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1 online resource (151 pages) |
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| Summary |
This study closely analyzes key works by five pivotal playwrights: Sidney Kingsley, Arthur Miller, David Mamet, August Wilson, and Suzan-Lori Parks, in a comparison of the treatment of money in a range of American plays from the Great Depression to the early twenty-first century. Money emerges as a site of anxieties regarding the relation of signs to the real: a "monstrous" substance that seems to breed itself from itself; a dangerous abstraction that claims for itself a "hard" reality, tran ... |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American drama. |
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20th century |
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Realism in literature.
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Realism in literature. |
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Money in literature.
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Money in literature. |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: 9781443839969 |
| ISBN |
9781443842846 |
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1443842842 |
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9781443839969 (hardback) |
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1443839965 (hardback) |
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