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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449917503321

Autore

Suskin Steven

Titolo

Broadway yearbook, 1999-2000 / / Steven Suskin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

1-280-48124-2

0-19-534997-0

0-19-530383-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Disciplina

792

Soggetti

Theater - New York (State) - New York

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; The Curtain Rises; The Shows; Curtain Calls; Index

Sommario/riassunto

We define our conscious experience by constructing narratives about ourselves and the people with whom we interact. Narrative pervades our lives--conscious experience is not merely linked to the number and variety of personal stories we construct with each other within a cultural frame, but is subsumed by them. The claim, however, that narrative constructions are essential to conscious experience is not useful or informative unless we can also begin to provide a distinct, organized, and empirically consistent explanation for narrative in relation to consciousness. Understanding the role of nar