University of Toronto Press
Modern Drama
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About this book
The contributors examine varied topics such as the analysis of periodicity; the articulation of social, political, and cultural production in theatre; the re-evaluation of texts, performances, and canons; and demonstrations of how interdisciplinarity inflects theatre and its practice.
Author / Editor information
Ric Knowles is a professor of drama at the University of Guelph and a member of faculty at the Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama, University of Toronto.
Tompkins Joanne Elizabeth :Joanne Tompkins is a lecturer in Diverse Cultures, Sociology of Education, and First Nations Education in the Department of Education at St Francis Xavier University.
Worthen W.B. :W.B. Worthen is a professor of Drama at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction
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Modern Drama/Modernity’s Drama
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Aesthetic Prejudice in Modern Drama
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Why Modern Plays Are Not Culture: Disciplinary Blind Spots
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Quo Vadis? Theatre Studies at the Crossroads
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Physiologies of the Modern: Zola, Experimental Medicine, and the Naturalist Stage
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Making Sense of Sensation: Enlightenment, Embodiment, and the End(s) of Modern Drama
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Luminous Writing, Embodiment, and Modern Drama: Mme Blavatsky and Bertolt Brecht
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The Haunted Houses of Modernity
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Hauntings: Anxiety, Technology, and Gender in Peter Pan
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Bodies, Revolutions, and Magic: Cultural Nationalism and Racial Fetishism
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Modernism and Genocide: Citing Minstrelsy in Postcolonial Agitprop
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August Wilson, Doubling, Madness, and Modern African-American Drama
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