Missing Persons: Character and Characterization in Modern Drama - Brossura

Gruber, William E.

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ISBN 10: 0820338524 ISBN 13: 9780820338521

Casa editrice: Univ of Georgia Pr, 2011

Riassunto

In the hands of the twentieth century&rsquo;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. <i>Missing Persons </i>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 &ldquo;character&rdquo; to the current discourse by developing a vocabulary for discussing it in plays in which conventional terms seem insufficient or irrelevant.

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Informazioni sull'autore

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

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0820338524
• ISBN 13: 9780820338521
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 222
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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