Staging modern American life :popular culture in the experimental theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos
- 作者: Fahy, Thomas Richard.
- 出版: New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2011.
- 稽核項: 183 p. :ill. ;22 cm.
- 叢書名: What is theatre?
- 標題: Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 Dramatic works. , History and criticism. , Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 Dramatic works. , LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama , Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962 Dramatic works. , Popular culture , American drama 20th century -- History and criticism. , American drama , Experimental theater United States -- History -- 20th century. , Experimental theater , Millay, Edna St. Vincent, , PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism , Popular culture in literature. , Dramatic works. , PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting , Experimental drama, American , Cummings, E. E. , Experimental drama, American History and criticism. , Dos Passos, John, , Popular culture United States -- History -- 20th century. , History
- ISBN: 0230115950 , 9780230115958
- 附註: Includes bibliographical references. Introduction -- "I cannot live without a macaroon!" : food, hunger, and the dangers of modern American culture in Edna St. Vincent Millay's Aria da Capo and other plays -- "Damn everything but the circus!" : the ambiguous place of popular culture in E. E. Cummings' Him -- Planes, trains, and automobiles : technology and the suburban nightmare in the plays of John Dos Passos -- Conclusion.
- 摘要: "The theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theater history and literary scholarship, offer a hybrid theater that integrates the popular with the formal, the mainstream with the experimental. Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in their works and offers new readings with an eye to American cultural studies and the impact of mass entertainment on modern life"--
- 系統號: 005089172
- 資料類型: 圖書
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The theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theater history and literary scholarship, offer a hybrid theater that integrates the popular with the formal, the mainstream with the experimental. Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in their works and offers new readings with an eye to American cultural studies and the impact of mass entertainment on modern life.
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