Plays of Impasse : : Contemporary Drama Set in Confining Institutions / / Carol Rosen.
This work probes the structure and significance of the increasingly numerous and highly visible plays set in contemporary society's dead ends the hospitals, insane asylums, prisons, and military training camps so aptly described by Erving Goffman as total institutions." Carol Rosen shows h...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©1983 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (356 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Photographs
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Killing Pain in the End Beds
- 3. Imagining Freedom at the Asylum
- 4. Passing Time Behind Bars
- 5. Acting Tough in the Barracks
- 6. A Dream of Order
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index