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Author:   Alan Ackerman
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9781442612815

ISBN 10:   1442612819
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   25 April 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction 1 Gossip Girls: Lady Teazle, Nora Helmer, and Invisible-Hand Drama 2 Vinløv i håret: The Relationship between Women, Language, and Power in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler 3 ""Silencio, he dicho!"" Space, Language, and Characterization as Agents of Social Protest in Lorca's Rural Tragedies 4 The Money Shot: Economies of Sex, Guns, and Language in Topdog/Underdog 5 The Stage Space and the Circus: e.e. cummings's Him and Frederick Kiesler's Raumbühne 6 How to do Nothing With Words, or Waiting for Godot as Performativity 7 Reinventing Beckett 8 Uncloseting Drama: Gertrude Stein and the Wooster Group 9 Synge's Playboy and the Eugenics of Language 10 The Pillowman and the Ethics of Allegory 11 Cognitive Catharsis in The Caucasian Chalk Circle 12 Jane Harrison and the Savage Dionysus: Archaeological Voyages, Ritual Origins, Anthropology, and the Modern Theatre Contributors Index"

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Alan Ackerman is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.

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