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- catalog abstract "In Dramatic Closure, author June Schlueter explores closure within both a traditional Aristotelian paradigm and contemporary reader-response theory, necessarily revising narrative insights to accommodate the special features of drama as a literary and performance form. Examples of plays from Oedipus to the present appear throughout the book, and individual chapters are dedicated to sustained discussions of William Shakespeare's King Lear, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arthur Miller's The Ride Down Mount Morgan, and Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire. The author emphasizes Shakespeare and, especially, modern drama in the belief that these plays provide salient models of the theoretical principles of reading toward closure. A chapter on tendencies in modern plays covers a wide range of material, suggesting ways in which twentieth-century drama disrupts the Aristotelian model and defers to the provisional or unsettling end. In her theoretical discussion, Schlueter explores how literary, theatrical, and cultural conventions cooperate and collide; how the dramatic or performance text designates what Wolfgang Iser calls a text's "response-inviting structure"; how that structure activates conventions and predispositions throughout its sequence of reading moments, shaping, frustrating, and satisfying expectations; and how readers constitute texts as they read toward closure. The assumption throughout is that all texts, whether stable or transgressive, necessarily engage the question of how, when, and where to end and that all readers, whether of literary or performance texts, are implicated in closure.".
- catalog contributor b8110080.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "1. The Promised End -- 2. The Meaning of the End -- 3. The Reader's Role -- 4. The Conventional End -- 5. The End of Dialogue -- 6. The End of Character -- 7. (Con)testing the End: Tendencies in Modern Plays -- 8. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: A Postmortem -- 9. The Ride Down Mount Morgan: Scripting the Closing Scene -- 10. Prospective and Retrospective Reading -- 11. Reading Toward Closure: A Streetcar Named Desire -- 12. The Performance Text -- 13. Staging the Promised End -- 14. Curtain Call: Theatrical Closure.".
- catalog description "In Dramatic Closure, author June Schlueter explores closure within both a traditional Aristotelian paradigm and contemporary reader-response theory, necessarily revising narrative insights to accommodate the special features of drama as a literary and performance form. Examples of plays from Oedipus to the present appear throughout the book, and individual chapters are dedicated to sustained discussions of William Shakespeare's King Lear, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arthur Miller's The Ride Down Mount Morgan, and Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire. The author emphasizes Shakespeare and, especially, modern drama in the belief that these plays provide salient models of the theoretical principles of reading toward closure. A chapter on tendencies in modern plays covers a wide range of material, suggesting ways in which twentieth-century drama disrupts the Aristotelian model and defers to the provisional or unsettling end.".
- catalog description "In her theoretical discussion, Schlueter explores how literary, theatrical, and cultural conventions cooperate and collide; how the dramatic or performance text designates what Wolfgang Iser calls a text's "response-inviting structure"; how that structure activates conventions and predispositions throughout its sequence of reading moments, shaping, frustrating, and satisfying expectations; and how readers constitute texts as they read toward closure. The assumption throughout is that all texts, whether stable or transgressive, necessarily engage the question of how, when, and where to end and that all readers, whether of literary or performance texts, are implicated in closure.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-141) and index.".
- catalog extent "144 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Dramatic closure.".
- catalog identifier "0838635830 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Dramatic closure.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Dramatic closure.".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "822.009 20".
- catalog subject "American drama History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "Closure (Rhetoric)".
- catalog subject "Criticism English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "Drama Technique.".
- catalog subject "English drama History and criticism Theory, etc.".
- catalog subject "Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005. Ride down Mount Morgan.".
- catalog subject "PR635.C67 S35 1995".
- catalog subject "Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear.".
- catalog subject "Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.".
- catalog subject "Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. Streetcar named Desire.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Promised End -- 2. The Meaning of the End -- 3. The Reader's Role -- 4. The Conventional End -- 5. The End of Dialogue -- 6. The End of Character -- 7. (Con)testing the End: Tendencies in Modern Plays -- 8. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: A Postmortem -- 9. The Ride Down Mount Morgan: Scripting the Closing Scene -- 10. Prospective and Retrospective Reading -- 11. Reading Toward Closure: A Streetcar Named Desire -- 12. The Performance Text -- 13. Staging the Promised End -- 14. Curtain Call: Theatrical Closure.".
- catalog title "Dramatic closure : reading the end / June Schlueter.".
- catalog type "text".