Love in Contemporary British Drama : : Traditions and Transformations of a Cultural Emotion / / Korbinian Stöckl.
Despite the recent turn to affects and emotions in the humanities and despite the unceasing popularity of romantic and erotic love as a motif in fictional works of all genres, the subject has received surprisingly little attention in academic studies of contemporary drama. Love in Contemporary Briti...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary Drama in English Studies ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (IX, 294 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I. The Making of Romantic/Erotic Love: Traditions and Transformations
- 2 Philosophy of Love: Selections
- 3 Romantic Love in Sociology
- Part II. Analysis: Love in Contemporary British Drama
- 4 “Why isn’t love enough?” Commitment in Patrick Marber’s Closer
- 5 “if you’re not with me I feel less like a person”: Sex, Drugs, and the Myth of Self-Sufficiency in Mark Ravenhill’s Shopping and Fucking
- 6 Autopsies of Love: Sarah Kane’s Erotic Plays
- 7 “Not saying I don’t want things though”: Emotional and Material Desires in Dennis Kelly’s Love and Money
- 8 “Love at first sight and the lost city of Atlantis”: Penelope Skinner’s Eigengrau, Or ‘A Fairy Tale of Blind Love’
- 9 “We don’t need ties”: Rebellious Love in Mike Bartlett’s Love, Love, Love
- 10 “this poetical … shit”: Coming to Terms with Love in debbie tucker green’s a profoundly affectionate, passionate devotion to someone (‐noun)
- 11 Coda
- Works Cited
- Index of subjects
- Index of authors