Drama + theory : critical approaches to modern British drama

著者

• Buse, Peter

書誌事項

Drama + theory : critical approaches to modern British drama

Peter Buse

Manchester University Press, 2001

• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-198) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9780719057212

内容説明

Energetically places modern British drama and contemporary critical and cultural theory in dialogue, demonstrating how theory allows fresh insights into familiar plays. Each chapter pairs a well-known play from the post-war period with a classic theory text, the theoretical text is not simply applied to the dramatic one: instead, the play and the theoretical text reflect on each other in a mutual illumination. Examples include: So Look Back in Anger is read by and reads Lacan's Signification of the Phallus Pinter's The Homecoming is made uncanny with Freud Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead finds affinities with Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good agrees and disagrees with Edward Said Sarah Kane's Blasted thinks through trauma with Shoshana Felman. In each case, the theoretical position is explained lucidly and economically. The result is a series of new interpretations not only of the plays, but of the theoretical texts, which take on new relevance when linked with modern British drama. The first textbook of its kind, linking contemporary drama with critical and cultural theory. -- .

巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780719057229

内容説明

Energetically places modern British drama and contemporary critical and cultural theory in dialogue, demonstrating how theory allows fresh insights into familiar plays. Each chapter pairs a well-known play from the post-war period with a classic theory text, the theoretical text is not simply applied to the dramatic one: instead, the play and the theoretical text reflect on each other in a mutual illumination. Examples include: So Look Back in Anger is read by and reads Lacan's Signification of the Phallus Pinter's The Homecoming is made uncanny with Freud Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead finds affinities with Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good agrees and disagrees with Edward Said Sarah Kane's Blasted thinks through trauma with Shoshana Felman. In each case, the theoretical position is explained lucidly and economically. The result is a series of new interpretations not only of the plays, but of the theoretical texts, which take on new relevance when linked with modern British drama. The first textbook of its kind, linking contemporary drama with critical and cultural theory. -- .

目次

Introduction 1. What does Jimmy Porter want?: Osborne with Lacan 2. Home front: Pinter with Freud 3. Hamlet games: Stoppard with Lyotard 4. Before Orton, after Foucault 5. Jokes and their relation to interpellation: Griffiths with Althusser 6. Towards a citational history: Churchill with Benjamin 7. Simulacra on Fleet Street: Pravda with Baudrillard 8. Culture and colonies: Wertenbaker with Said 9. Trauma and testimony in Blasted: Kane with Felman Bibliography -- .

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA55372653
• ISBN:
  • 0719057213
  • 0719057221
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Manchester
• ページ数/冊数: xi, 204 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm