ACLS Humanities E-Book: Expressionism and modernism in the American theatre: bodies, voices, words

Expressionism and modernism in the American theatre: bodies, voices, words

Walker, Julia A., 1964-

Year: c2005.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

Part I Introduction

1 Bodies: actors and artistic agency on the nineteenth-century stage

2 Voices: oratory, expression, and the text/performance split

3 Words: copyright and the creation of the performance "text"

Part II Introduction

4 The "unconscious autobiography" of Eugene O'Neill

5 Elmer Rice and the cinematic imagination

6 "I love a parade!": John Howard Lawson's minstrel burlesque of the American Dream

7 Sophie Treadwell's "pretty hands"

Epilogue: "modern times"

Notes

Works cited

Index

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Title:

Expressionism and modernism in the American theatre : bodies, voices, words / Julia A. Walker.

Author:

Walker, Julia A., 1964-

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University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
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Expressionism and modernism in the American theatre : bodies, voices, words / Julia A. Walker.
Walker, Julia A., 1964-
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, c2005.

URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07577

Subject Headings:

• American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Modernism (Literature) -- United States
• Expressionism in literature
• Theater -- United States

Notes:

• Based on the author's dissertation, Duke University.
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