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UNINA9910455356503321 |
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Autore |
Glavin John |
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Titolo |
After Dickens : reading, adaptation and performance / / John Glavin [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999 |
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1-107-11588-4 |
0-521-03237-7 |
1-280-16190-6 |
0-511-11713-2 |
0-511-14943-3 |
0-511-30966-X |
0-511-48481-X |
0-511-05121-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; ; 20 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Performing arts - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Performing arts in literature |
Stage adaptations |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-222) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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; pt. I. Set up. ; 1. Dickens, adaptation and Grotowski. ; 2. ... as upon a theatre -- ; pt. II. Flashback. ; 3. ... to be a Shakespeare. ; 4. Exit: "the sanguine mirage" -- ; pt. III. Resolution. ; 5. How to do it. ; 6. Coda. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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After Dickens is both a performative reading of Dickens the novelist and an exploration of the potential for adaptive performance of the novels themselves. John Glavin conducts a historical inquiry into Dickens's relationship to the theatre and theatricality of his own time, and uncovers a much more ambivalent, often hostile, relationship than has hitherto been noticed. In this context, Dickens's novels can be seen as a form of counter-performance, one which would allow the author to perform without being seen or scrutinized. But Glavin also identifies a rich performative potential in Dickens's fiction, and describes new ways to stage that fiction in emotionally powerful, critically acute |
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