1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910511644703321

Autore

Paterson Eddie

Titolo

The contemporary American monologue : performance and politics / / Eddie Paterson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, , 2015

ISBN

1-4725-8504-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Methuen drama engage

Disciplina

808.5/109730905

Soggetti

Oratory - United States - History - 21st century

American drama - 21st century - History and criticism

Monologues

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: -- IntroductionChapter 1: Monologue in Drama Chapter 2: Monologue in the US Chapter 3: Confessional monologue: Spalding GrayChapter 4: Punk monologue: Laurie AndersonChapter 5: Rights monologue: Anna Deavere SmithChapter 6: Radical monologue: Karen FinleyChapter 7: Future monologues Addendum: 'I didn't fall asleep' an interview with Karen FinleyEndnotesIndex.

Sommario/riassunto

"Talk-show confessions, online rants, stand-up routines, inspirational speeches, banal reflections and calls to arms: we live in an age of solo voices demanding to be heard. In The Contemporary American Monologue Eddie Paterson looks at the pioneering work of US artists Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, Anna Deavere Smith and Karen Finley, and the development of solo performance in the US as a method of cultural and political critique. Ironic confession, post-punk poetry, investigations of race and violence, and subversive polemic, this book reveals the link between the rise of radical monologue in the late 20th century and history of speechmaking, politics, civil rights, individual freedom and the American Dream in the United States. It shows how US artists are speaking back to the cultural, political and economic forces that shape the world. Eddie Patterson traces the importance of the



monologue in Shakespeare, Brecht, Beckett, Chekov, Pinter, O'Neill and Williams, before offering a comprehensive analysis of several of the most influential and innovative American practitioners of monologue performance. The volume also contains an interview with artist Karen Finley, on the trajectory of her recent works. The Contemporary American Monologue constitutes the first book-length account of US monologists that links the tradition of oratory and speechmaking in the colony to the appearance of solo performance as a distinctly American phenomenon"--

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991000803879707536

Autore

Farin, Gerald

Titolo

Curves and surfaces for computer aided geometric design : a practical guide / Gerald Farin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : Academic press, 1993

ISBN

0122490525

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

473 p. ; 23 cm + 1 floppy disk

Collana

Computer science and scientific computing

Classificazione

AMS 51-04

AMS 51-XX

Disciplina

516.3

Soggetti

Computer graphics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

1st ed. 1988

2nd ed. 1990

Incl. 1 floppy disk