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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255252803321

Autore

Burkman Katherine H

Titolo

The Drama of the Double : Permeable Boundaries / / by Katherine H. Burkman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-57388-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 182 p.)

Collana

What is Theatre?

Disciplina

809/.93353

Soggetti

Performing arts

Motion pictures—History

Personality

Social psychology

Literature—Philosophy

Culture—Study and teaching

Theater—History

Performing Arts

Film History

Personality and Social Psychology

Literary Theory

Cultural Theory

Theatre History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

The drama of the double -- Narcissus and doubling: Conrad, Shepard, Mamet -- Narcissus and Dionysus: The Bacchae and The crying game -- Harold Pinter's Death in Venice and Life in Victoria Station -- Hedda Gabler, Jules and Jim and Taxi driver -- Orestes: Aeschylus and O'Neill -- Doubling in the mythic dreamscapes of Samuel Beckett's Happy days -- Not I, and Rockaby -- More on Demeter: Marsha Norman's 'night mother -- Oedipus and Demeter: Pinters A slight ache -- Coda.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the way in which doubling takes place in several novels, films, and dramas, primarily focusing on modern drama and



exploring how five Greek myths – Oedipus, Narcissus, Dionysus, Orestes, and Demeter – inform the literature. Taking a psychological/mythical approach, this book explores the inner divisions that lead to boundary loss and the search for the self that may lead to boundaries found. The contention of the book is that the oedipal search for self has been replaced in modern literature by individuals caught up in a narcissistic culture. Katherine H. Burkman explores plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Henrik Ibsen, Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Marsha Norman, and Will Eno.