Stage Fright

Author: Martin Puchner
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B001ULCN1C

Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama

Grounded equally in discussions of theater history, literary genre, and theory, Martin Puchner's Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama explores the conflict between avant-garde theater and modernism. Download Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. While the avant-garde celebrated all things theatrical, a dominant strain of modernism tended to define itself against the theater, valuing lyric poetry and the novel instead. Defenders of the theater dismiss modernism's aversion to the stage and its mimicking actors as one more form of the old "anti-theatrical" prejudice. But Puchner shows that modernism's ambivalence about the theater was shared even by playwrights and directors and thus was a productive force responsible for some of the greatest achievements in dramatic li Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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