Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025
- Expressionism
- Modernism
- American Theatre
- Drama
- Theatre History
- 20th Century Literature
- Cultural Studies
- Performance Studies
- Literary Criticism
- Arts
具体描述
Although often dismissed as a minor offshoot of the better-known German movement, expressionism on the American stage represents a critical phase in the development of American dramatic modernism. Situating expressionism within the context of early twentieth-century American culture, Walker demonstrates how playwrights who wrote in this mode were responding both to new communications technologies and to the perceived threat they posed to the embodied act of meaning. At a time when mute bodies gesticulated on the silver screen, ghostly voices emanated from tin horns, and inked words stamped out the personality of the hand that composed them, expressionist playwrights began to represent these new cultural experiences by disarticulating the theatrical languages of bodies, voices and words. In doing so, they not only innovated a new dramatic form, but redefined playwriting from a theatrical craft to a literary art form, heralding the birth of American dramatic modernism.
作者简介
Julia A. Walker, Washington University, St Louis
Julia Walker is Assistant Professor of English and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
目录信息
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I:
1. Bodies: actors and artistic agency on the nineteenth century stage
2. Voices: oratory, expression and the text/performance split
3. Words: copyright and the creation of the performance 'text'
Part II: Introduction
4. The 'unconscious autobiography' of Eugene O'Neill
5. Elmer Rice and the cinematic imagination
6. 'I love a parade!' John Howard Lawson's minstrel burlesque of the American dream
7. Sophie Treadwell's 'pretty hands'
Epilogue. 'Modern Times'
Works cited.
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