Carnival texts three plays for ensemble performance
Carnival Texts comprises three related dramatic works, all of which have as their point of departure Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of carnival, a literary style designed to subvert dominant assumptions through chaos and humour. Making creative use of post-Brechtian performance theo...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Intellect
2011.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009436138206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Preface; PART ONE: TEXTS; Strangers To Paradise; Brides, Bombs and Boardrooms; Fete; PART TWO: ESSAYS; Fear into Laughter; Bodies in Pain: Realism and the Subversion of Spectacle in Brides, Bombs and Boardrooms; Blowing Up the Nation: Vulnerability and Violence in James MacDonald's Post-national England; Notes on Contributors; Back Cover
