| Description |
1 online resource (230 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Postmodern studies ; 37
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Postmodern studies ; 37.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
I Introduction: The Postmodern Condition of Drama; Postmodernism, an Assessment for the Theater; The Repoliticization of Postmodernism; Survey of Selected Secondary Studies; II Theorizing Dramatic Form: Aspects of Transformation in Postmodern Drama; II.1 The Postmodern Sense of Self; II.2 The Dramatic Text, Performance, and Postmodern Authorship; II.3 Theatrical Space and Mediatized Culture; III Jean-Claude van Itallie: Mediatized Culture and the Postmodern Self; III.1 Transformative Selves in "Interview"; III.2 "TV": The Screen Takes Over. |
| Summary |
The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American Drama offers a fresh and innovative reading of the contemporary experimental American theater scene and navigates through the contested and contentious relationship between postmodernism and contemporary drama. This book addresses gender and class as well as racial issues in the context of a theoretical discussion of dramatic texts, textuality, and performance. Transformation is contemporary drama's answer to the questions of postmodernism and a major technique in the development of a postmodern language for the stage. In order to demons. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Theater -- United States -- 20th century.
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Theater. |
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United States. |
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20th century |
| Subject |
Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Postmodernism (Literature) |
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American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American drama. |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schmidt, Kerstin, 1971- Theater of transformation. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2005 904201895X (OCoLC)59617068 |
| ISBN |
141759120X (electronic book) |
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9781417591206 (electronic book) |
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9789042018952 |
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904201895X (paperback) |
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