Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
Juli 2002
Verlag
Johns Hopkins University PressSeitenzahl
248
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/16.2/2 cm
Gewicht
467 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8018-6855-9
A reaction to the aggressive theatricality of Wagner and his followers, the modernist backlash against the theater led to the peculiar genre of the closet drama--a theatrical piece intended to be read rather than staged--whose long-overlooked significance Puchner traces from the theatrical texts of Mallarm and Stein to the dramatic "Circe" chapter of Joyce's Ulysses. At times, then, the anti-theatrical impulse leads to a withdrawal from the theater. At other times, however, it returns to the stage, when Yeats blends lyric poetry with Japanese Nh dancers, when Brecht controls the stage with novelistic techniques, and when Beckett buries his actors in barrels and behind obsessive stage directions. The modernist theater thus owes much to the closet drama whose literary strategies it blends with a new mise en scne. While offering an alternative history of modernist theater and literature, Puchner also provides a new account of thecontradictory forces within modernism.
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