Postmodern Theatric(k)s: Monologue in Contemporary American DramaUniversity of Michigan Press, 1993 - 205 sivua Postmodern Theatric(k)s focuses on the voices that have emerged from American experimental theater of the 1960s, voices shaped by the culture of television, film, Pop Art, and rock music. Increasingly, these writers have brought a distinctly new approach to the use of monologue. Deborah Geis argues that in place of the psychological revelation of the Shakespearean soliloquy, these postmodern monologues play "tricks" by altering, suspending, or rupturing the narrative "progress" of a play. Character development through monologue is replaced by parody, theatricality, and "con" games. For some recent performance artists, the notion of character itself explodes, as monologue permits the performer to play at blurring the fictional and the autobiographical. The author begins by tracing the changing role of monologue from classical drama through the early modernists; she also pinpoints the connections between the off-Off- Broadway theater of the sixties and new uses of monologue. The focus then turns to several key American playwrights, including Sam Shepard and David Mamet. Geis shows how monologue, as a technique for giving voice to previously silenced speakers, has played a crucial role in works by feminist and African-American dramatists like Maria Irene Fornes and Ntozake Shange. The author closes with an examination of the works of Spalding Gray and Karen Finley, two performance artists whose monologues display unique efforts at boundary-crossing. As the first study of its kind on monologue in theatrical narrative and as a discussion of recent American playwrights from a comparative critical perspective, Postmodern Theatric(k)s will be of interest to specialists in dramatic theory and criticism, specialists in performance studies, and theater practitioners. The volume will also appeal to readers interested in literary theory, cultural studies, feminism, and performance art. Deborah Geis is Assistant Professor of English, Queens College, City University of New York. |
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... spectators to imagine things they cannot see yet is accompanied by the invisible exhortation that they " see " the speaker as a character in ( or at least in the context of ) the onstage action they have been witnessing up to that point ...
... spectators to imagine things they cannot see yet is accompanied by the invisible exhortation that they " see " the speaker as a character in ( or at least in the context of ) the onstage action they have been witnessing up to that point ...
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... spectators in a more direct way than otherwise and reasserts their very powerlessness . The audience seems to be addressed , yet its members are not ( except in certain forms of experimental theater ) in a position to respond , for ...
... spectators in a more direct way than otherwise and reasserts their very powerlessness . The audience seems to be addressed , yet its members are not ( except in certain forms of experimental theater ) in a position to respond , for ...
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... spectators . I have mentioned that postmodernist expres- sion foregrounds the role of the reader ( i.e. , audience member , or “ re- cipient " ) in constituting its meanings and even its structure ; as Hutcheon says , " The ...
... spectators . I have mentioned that postmodernist expres- sion foregrounds the role of the reader ( i.e. , audience member , or “ re- cipient " ) in constituting its meanings and even its structure ; as Hutcheon says , " The ...
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