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UNINA9910478887403321 |
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Titolo |
Performing animals : history, agency, theater / / edited by Karen Raber and Monica Mattfeld |
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University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2017] |
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©2017 |
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0-271-08076-0 |
0-271-08078-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 195 pages :) : illustrations ; |
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Collana |
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Animalibus: of animals and cultures ; ; Volume 11 |
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Human-animal relationships in the performing arts - History |
Equestrian drama - History |
Animals in the performing arts - History |
Animals as represented on the stage - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-188) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Animals at the table : performing meat in early modern England and Europe / Karen Raber -- Intra-active performativity : rethinking the early modern equestrian portrait / Pia F. Cuneo -- Past performances : gleanings from the archives about early modern equine athletic performance / Richard Nash -- "I see them galloping!" : war, affect, and performing horses in Matthew Lewis's Timour the Tartar / Monica Mattfeld -- Peaceable kingdom : the place of the dog at the nativity scene / Rob Wakeman -- Performing pain : the suffering animal in early modern experiment / Sarah E. Parker -- Circus minimus : the early modern theater of insects / Jessica Wolfe -- Shakespeare's insect theater : fairy lore as Elizabethan folk entomology / Todd Andrew Borlik -- Miss Mazeppa and the horse with no name / Kari Weil -- Horses queer the stage and society of Shenandoah / Kim Marra. |
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"A collection of essays that explore the role of performing animals in literature, theater, art, and other media prior to the twentieth century, and discuss recent theoretical work in animal studies, materialism, and |
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post humanism"--Provided by publisher. |
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UNINA9910777022003321 |
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Autore |
North Michael <1951-> |
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The dialect of modernism : race, language, and twentieth-century literature / / Michael North |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1994 |
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0-19-772373-X |
1-280-52703-X |
0-19-535910-0 |
1-4294-0576-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (309 pages) |
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Collana |
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Race and American culture |
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American literature - African American authors - History and criticism |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Dialect literature, American - History and criticism |
Modernism (Literature) - United States |
African Americans in literature |
Black English in literature |
Language and culture |
Race in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-244) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; 1. Against the Standard: Linguistic Imitation, Racial Masquerade, and the Modernist Rebellion; 2. The Nigger of the ""Narcissus "" as a Preface to Modernism; 3. Modernism's African Mask: The Stein-Picasso Collaboration; 4. Old Possum and Brer Rabbit: Pound and Eliot's Racial Masquerade; 5. Quashie to Buccra: The Linguistic Expatriation of Claude McKay; 6. Race, the American Language, and the Americanist Avant-Garde; 7. Two Strangers in the American Language: William Carlos Williams and Jean Toomer |
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8. ""Characteristics of Negro Expression"": Zora Neale Hurston and the Negro AnthologyNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
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This treatise describes the crucial role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism. It describes how modernists have rebelled against the standard image, reimagining themselves as racial aliens and mimicking the strategies of dialect speakers. |
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