Errand Into the Theatrical Wilderness
Title | Errand Into the Theatrical Wilderness PDF eBook |
Author | Lincoln E. Konkle |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 494 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Edward Albee
Title | Edward Albee PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Mann |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 163 |
Release | 2004-11-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1135579555 |
From the "angry young man" who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in 1962, determined to expose the emptiness of American experience to Tiny Alice which reveals his indebtedness to Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco's Theatre of the Absurd, Edward Albee's varied work makes it difficult to label him precisely. Bruce Mann and his contributors approach Albee as an innovator in theatrical form, filling a critical gap in theatrical scholarship.
Thornton Wilder and the Puritan Narrative Tradition
Title | Thornton Wilder and the Puritan Narrative Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | Lincoln Konkle |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0826264972 |
"Fresh examination of the works of Thornton Wilder emphasizing continuities in American literature from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. Sees Wilder as a literary descendant of Edward Taylor who drew from the Puritan worldview and tradition. Includes indepth readings of Shadow of a Doubt, The Trumpet Shall Sound, and others"--Provided by publisher.
Mabel Dodge Luhan
Title | Mabel Dodge Luhan PDF eBook |
Author | Lois Palken Rudnick |
Publisher | UNM Press |
Total Pages | 404 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780826309952 |
The definitive biography of a cultural icon.
Epiphany in the Wilderness
Title | Epiphany in the Wilderness PDF eBook |
Author | Karen R. Jones |
Publisher | University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 2015-12-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1607323982 |
Whether fulfilling subsistence needs or featured in stories of grand adventure, hunting loomed large in the material and the imagined landscape of the nineteenth-century West. Epiphany in the Wilderness explores the social, political, economic, and environmental dynamics of hunting on the frontier in three “acts,” using performance as a trail guide and focusing on the production of a “cultural ecology of the chase” in literature, art, photography, and taxidermy. Using the metaphor of the theater, Jones argues that the West was a crucial stage that framed the performance of the American character as an independent, resourceful, resilient, and rugged individual. The leading actor was the all-conquering masculine hunter hero, the sharpshooting man of the wilderness who tamed and claimed the West with each provident step. Women were also a significant part of the story, treading the game trails as plucky adventurers and resilient homesteaders and acting out their exploits in autobiographical accounts and stage shows. Epiphany in the Wilderness informs various academic debates surrounding the frontier period, including the construction of nature as a site of personal challenge, gun culture, gender adaptations and the crafting of the masculine wilderness hero figure, wildlife management and consumption, memorializing and trophy-taking, and the juxtaposition of a closing frontier with an emerging conservation movement. The University Press of Colorado gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University toward the publication of this book.
Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860
Title | Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860 PDF eBook |
Author | Rosemarie K. Bank |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 1997-01-28 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780521563871 |
A study of pre-Civil War American theatre.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Title | Dissertation Abstracts International PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 538 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Dissertations, Academic |
ISBN |
Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.