Missing Persons: Character and Characterization in Modern Drama - Couverture souple

Gruber, William E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0820338524 ISBN 13 : 9780820338521

Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 2011

Synopsis

In the hands of the twentieth century’s most innovative dramatists, characters have revealed their identities on stage in a variety of unconventional ways: they speak with electronic voices or engage in solipsistic monologues; they are lost in self-conscious third-person forms of communicating; or they are expressed simply as movement, sound, and decor. Missing Persons is a study of character and its representations on the modern stage. Within broad literary contexts, William E. Gruber addresses specific questions about the dramatis personae of the playwrights Gordon Craig, Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Berhard, and Maria Fornes. Gruber attempts to restore “character” to the current discourse by developing a vocabulary for discussing it in plays in which conventional terms seem insufficient or irrelevant.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

WILLIAM E. GRUBER is a professor of English and adjunct professor of theater studies at Emory University. He is the author of Comic Theaters: Studies in Performance and Audience Response (Georgia), Offstage Space, Narrative, and the Theatre of the Imagination, and On All Sides Nowhere: Building a Life in Rural Idaho.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Georgia Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820338524
• ISBN 13: 9780820338521
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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