Modern Drama : : Defining the Field / / Ric Knowles, W.B. Worthen, Joanne Elizabeth Tompkins.

Theatre, like other subjects in the humanities, has recently undergone quintessential changes in theory, approach, and research. Modern Drama - a collection of twelve essays from leading theatre and drama scholars - investigates the contemporary meanings and the cultural and political resonances of...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Modern Drama/Modernity's Drama / Diamond, Elin
  • Aesthetic Prejudice in Modern Drama / Sidnell, Michael J.
  • Why Modern Plays Are Not Culture: Disciplinary Blind Spots / Jackson, Shannon
  • Quo Vadis? Theatre Studies at the Crossroads / Fischer-Lichte, Erika
  • Physiologies of the Modern: Zola, Experimental Medicine, and the Naturalist Stage / Garner, Stanton B.
  • Making Sense of Sensation: Enlightenment, Embodiment, and the End(s) of Modern Drama / Kruger, Loren
  • Luminous Writing, Embodiment, and Modern Drama: Mme Blavatsky and Bertolt Brecht / Case, Sue-Ellen
  • The Haunted Houses of Modernity / Savran, David
  • Hauntings: Anxiety, Technology, and Gender in Peter Pan / Wilson, Ann
  • Bodies, Revolutions, and Magic: Cultural Nationalism and Racial Fetishism / Lee, Josephine
  • Modernism and Genocide: Citing Minstrelsy in Postcolonial Agitprop / Filewod, Alan
  • August Wilson, Doubling, Madness, and Modern African-American Drama / Elam, Harry J.
  • Works Cited
  • Works Cited