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Author:   Gerald C. Wood (Carson-Newman College, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.249kg
ISBN:  

9780415655705

ISBN 10:   0415655706
Pages:   178
Publication Date:   10 November 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1 Biographical/Contextual Essays; Chapter 1 A Touch of Bad: Why Is the Director Neil LaBute So Interested in Jerks?, John Lahr; Chapter 2 A Modern Euripides, Mary English; Chapter 3 Jeremy Collier Answered: Shifting Poetic Justice from the Playwright to the Audience in the Works of Neil LaBute, Jay Oney; Part 2 Perspectives on Religion and Morality; Chapter 4 Experiencing Others: Martin Buber and Neil LaBute’s In the Company of Men, Kip Redick, Mark Borchert; Chapter 5 Morality and Metaphor in the Works of Neil LaBute, Tom Wilhelmus; Chapter 6 Latter-day Capitalism: Religious and Corporate Violence in the Films and Plays of Neil LaBute, Gerald C. Wood; Part 3 The LaBute Style; Chapter 7 Neil LaBute, Postmodernist in the Pulpit: The Search for Truth and decency in a Sinful World, Dean Mendell; Chapter 8 Place, Popular Culture, and Possibilism in Selected Works of Playwright Neil LaBute, Thomas L. Bell; Chapter 9 No Simple Misogyny: The Shape of Gender in the Works of Neil LaBute, Becky Becker; Chapter 10 Interrogating the Real in Neil LaBute’s Films, J. P. Telotte;

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Gerald C. Wood is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Carson-Newman College. He is author of Conor McPherson:Imaging Mischief (2003) and HortonFoote and the Theater of Intimacy (1999). He is editor of Horton Foote: A Casebook (1998) and Selected One-ActPlays of Horton Foote (1989).

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