Drama in the Modern World: Plays & Essays
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Publisher: 書林出版有限公司
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9789575866105
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Publisher: 書林出版有限公司
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9789575866105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Abba Weiss
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 614
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Abba Weiss
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 580
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel A. Weiss
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780669214857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: T. R. Young
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781412821957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese essays explore the many ways theatre and dramaturgy are used to shape the everyday experience of people in mass societies. Young argues that technologies combine with the world of art, music, and cinema to shape consciousness as a commodity and to fragment social relations in the market as well as in religion and politics. He sees the central problem of post-modern society as how to live in a world constructed by human beings without nihilism on the one hand or repressive dogmatism on the other. Young argues that in advanced monopoly capitalism, dramaturgy has replaced coercion as the management tool of choice for the control of consumers, workers, voters and state functionaries. Young calls this process the colonization of desire.' Desire is colonized by the use of dramaturgy, mass media, and the various forms of art in order to generate consumers, vesting desire in ownership and display rather than in interpersonal relationships with profound consequence for marriage, kinship, friendship and community. This gives rise to an ugly post-modern morality; moral action ceases to be mediated by self-other relations and is mediated by possession and use of commodities. While Young focuses his critique on capitalist societies undergoing great changes, he insists that the same developments are to be found in bureaucratically organized socialist societies. As social forces of self become untenable, other nonsocial source of self become attractive to the questing individual: body shape, body decorations, clothing fashions, astrological signs, Eastern religions as well as ownership of goods and the use of exotic services. Out of this quest for selfhood comes post-modern expression of music, art, dance, architecture as well as religion: highly variable, highly personal, and richly creative; often emancipatory but often hostile to common needs or to community. The Drama of Social Life will be of interest to those interested in theories of moral development, cultural studies, the uses of leisure, politics, or simply the uses of make believe and just pretend. It is intended for the informed lay public as much as for social psychologists. T.R. Young is director of the Red Feather Institute for Advanced Studies in sociology and a member of the faculty at Central Michigan University. He has edited the Transforming Sociology Series for the past eighteen years.
Author: Ludwig Lewisohn
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 364
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Javed Malick
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-07-08
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1000412792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe five essays in this book reflect many years of the author's sustained academic engagement with dramatic forms and traditions. The opening essay traces the historical trajectory of modern drama in Europe from its bourgeois period through the period of the liberal dissent to the more recent periods of radical alternative. The subsequent essays deal with certain specific examples of that drama in India and the West, such as Shakespeare adaptations on the Parsi theatre stage, Habib Tanvir, and Samuel Beckett. The author places each of these in a historical perspective. This approach constitutes the theoretical underpinning of the book giving cohesion to this collection of diverse essays. Although they were individually published in various journals and books in their earlier versions, they have been substantially revived and updated by the author for this volume. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Author: William Lyon Phelps
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Published: 2009-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781104052980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author: Martin Esslin
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Krasner
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 608
ISBN-13: 1118893204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA History of Modern Drama: Volume II explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama from 1960 through to the dawn of the new millennium. Features detailed analyses of plays and playwrights, examining the influence of a wide range of writers, from mainstream icons such as Harold Pinter and Edward Albee, to more unorthodox works by Peter Weiss and Sarah Kane Provides global coverage of both English and non-English dramas – including works from Africa and Asia to the Middle East Considers the influence of art, music, literature, architecture, society, politics, culture, and philosophy on the formation of postmodern dramatic literature Combines wide-ranging topics with original theories, international perspective, and philosophical and cultural context Completes a comprehensive two-part work examining modern world drama, and alongside A History of Modern Drama: Volume I, offers readers complete coverage of a full century in the evolution of global dramatic literature.