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Realism and the American dramatic tradition

Author: William W Demastes
Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1996.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: William W Demastes
ISBN: 0817308377 9780817308377
OCLC Number: 34077112
Description: 290 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Struggle for the real--interpretive conflict, dramatic method, and the paradox of realism / Brian Richardson --
The Legacy of James A. Herne: American realities and realisms / Patricia D. Denison --
Whose realism? Rachel Crothers's power struggle in the American theatre / Yvonne Shafer --
The Provincetown players' experiments with realism / J. Ellen Gainor --
Servant of three masters: realism, idealism, and 'hokum' in American high comedy / Robert F. Gross --
Remembering the disremembered: feminist realists of the Harlem renaissance / Patricia R. Schroeder --
Eugene O'Neill and reality in America / Frank R. Cunningham --
'Odets, where is thy sting?' Reassessing the 'playwright of the proletariat' / John W. Frick --
Thornton Wilder, the real, and theatrical realism / Christopher J. Wheatley --
Into the foxhole: feminism, realism, and Lillian Hellman / Judith E. Barlow --
Tennessee Williams's 'personal lyricism': toward an androgynous form / Thomas P. Adler --
Arthur Miller: revisioning realism / Brenda Murphy --
Margins in the mainstream: contemporary women playwrights / Janet V. Haedicke --
The Limits of African-American political realism: Baraka's Dutchman and Wilson's Ma Rainey's black bottom / Eric Bergesen and William W. Demastes --
Anti-theatricality and American ideology: Mamet's performative realism / Michael L. Quinn --
The Hurlyburly lies of the causalist mind: chaos and the realism of Rabe and Shepard / William W. Demastes and MIchael Vanden Heuvel.
Responsibility: edited by William W. Demastes.

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