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- catalog abstract "Postmodern/Drama scrutinizes the critical tendency to label texts or writers as "postmodern" and delineates what it might mean to "read" drama more "postmodernly." That is to say, this book resists interpretive gestures that would label writers like Samuel Beckett as a modernist, existentialist, absurdist, or postmodernist, and instead asks in what ways Beckett's plays open themselves to readings that might be termed postmodern in emphasis. Along the way, the author offers sustained analyses of such dramatists as Harold Pinter, David Rabe, David Mamet, Arthur Kopit, Cherrie Moraga, Luis Valdez, Sam Shepard, Karen Finley, and others. In addition to the dramatists it explores, the book considers novels by Samuel Beckett, Italo Calvino, and Don DeLillo; films by George Huang and Robert Altman; and commentary on postmodernity by Jean Baudrillard and Fredric Jameson. In the end, the postmodernity of contemporary drama is shown as less a question of genre or media than of a certain mode of subjectivity shared and contested by playwrights, producers, and audiences.".
- catalog contributor b10701782.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "In addition to the dramatists it explores, the book considers novels by Samuel Beckett, Italo Calvino, and Don DeLillo; films by George Huang and Robert Altman; and commentary on postmodernity by Jean Baudrillard and Fredric Jameson. In the end, the postmodernity of contemporary drama is shown as less a question of genre or media than of a certain mode of subjectivity shared and contested by playwrights, producers, and audiences.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-212) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: the problematics of a phrase -- Postmodern/drama, or the bankrupt logic of an empty marker -- Reading, articulation, and postmodernism: novels, postcards, and buildings -- A peristalsis of dim light: Joyce, Beckett, and postmodernism -- Rereading Harold Pinter -- Baudrillard's America (and ours?): the view from the stage -- In the "heat of the image": consuming subjects on the contemporary stage -- Notes -- Index.".
- catalog description "Postmodern/Drama scrutinizes the critical tendency to label texts or writers as "postmodern" and delineates what it might mean to "read" drama more "postmodernly." That is to say, this book resists interpretive gestures that would label writers like Samuel Beckett as a modernist, existentialist, absurdist, or postmodernist, and instead asks in what ways Beckett's plays open themselves to readings that might be termed postmodern in emphasis. Along the way, the author offers sustained analyses of such dramatists as Harold Pinter, David Rabe, David Mamet, Arthur Kopit, Cherrie Moraga, Luis Valdez, Sam Shepard, Karen Finley, and others.".
- catalog extent "viii, 220 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Postmodern/drama.".
- catalog identifier "0472108727 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Postmodern/drama.".
- catalog isPartOf "Theater--theory/text/performance".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,".
- catalog relation "Postmodern/drama.".
- catalog subject "809.2/04 21".
- catalog subject "Drama History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PN1623 .W35 1998".
- catalog subject "Postmodernism (Literature)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: the problematics of a phrase -- Postmodern/drama, or the bankrupt logic of an empty marker -- Reading, articulation, and postmodernism: novels, postcards, and buildings -- A peristalsis of dim light: Joyce, Beckett, and postmodernism -- Rereading Harold Pinter -- Baudrillard's America (and ours?): the view from the stage -- In the "heat of the image": consuming subjects on the contemporary stage -- Notes -- Index.".
- catalog title "Postmodern/drama : reading the contemporary stage / Stephen Watt.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".