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Watson Charles S. <1931-> |
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Titolo |
The history of Southern drama / / Charles S. Watson |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2009 |
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©1997 |
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ISBN |
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0-8131-8889-X |
0-8131-4999-1 |
0-8131-7023-0 |
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Edizione |
[Paperback edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American drama - Southern States - History and criticism |
Southern States Intellectual life |
Southern States In literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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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 and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Prologue: Definitions and Preliminaries; 1 Nationalism and Native Culture in Virginia; 2 Prolific Playwriting in Charleston; 3 The Dramatist as Humorist in New Orleans; 4 Drama Goes to War; 5 The Modern Drama of Espy Williams; 6 The Leadership of Paul Green; 7 DuBose Heyward's Transmutation of Black Culture; 8 The Southern Marxism of Lillian Hellman; 9 Black Drama: Politics or Culture; Illustrations; 10 Randolph Edmonds and Civil Rights; 11 The Cultural Imagination of Tennessee Williams; 12 Past and Present Cultures in Recent Drama |
Epilogue: Politics, Culture, and the Rise of Southern DramaNotes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Mention southern drama at a cocktail party or in an American literature survey, and you may hear cries for ""Stella!"" or laments for ""gentleman callers."" Yet southern drama depends on much more than a menagerie of highly strung spinsters and steel magnolias.Charles Watson explores this field from its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century roots through the southern Literary Renaissance and Tennessee Williams's triumphs to the plays of Horton Foote, winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize. Such |
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