LEADER 03433nam 2200541 450 001 9910160346503321 005 20220405172322.0 010 $a0-7735-4896-3 010 $a0-7735-4895-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773548954 035 $a(CKB)3710000001021046 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4787308 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/q04hxv 035 $a(DE-B1597)657519 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773548954 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001021046 100 $a20170130h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aStaging modernist lives $eH.D., Mina Loy, Nancy Cunard, three plays and criticism /$fSasha Colby 210 1$aMontreal & Kingston, Quebec ;$aLondon, [England] ;$aChicago, [Illinois] :$cMcGill-Queen's University Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (331 pages) 311 $a0-7735-4893-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tStaging Modernist Lives: Theory and Practice -- $tH.D.?s Autobiographical Theatre -- $tThe Tree -- $tPerformance, Performativity, and the Search for Mina Loy -- $tThe Mina Loy Interviews -- $tNancy Cunard and the Heterotopic Stage -- $tThese Were the Hours -- $tConclusion -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThree modernist women, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961), Mina Loy (1882-1966), and Nancy Cunard (1896-1965), came to define the interwar avant-garde through their experimental writing and unconventional pursuits. In Staging Modernist Lives, Sasha Colby dramatizes these women?s lives and writing in three new plays that traverse the origins of modernism, Parisian literary circles, two world wars, the Spanish Civil War, and race and gender relations in the first half of the twentieth century. Leveraging each writer?s autobiographical materials, the plays explore the work of H.D., Loy, and Cunard as artists, publishers, and activists, their quests for self-definition amid political and historical upheaval, and their development as modernists among mentors, detractors, lovers, and friends including Bryher Ellerman, Ezra Pound, Sigmund Freud, Gertrude Stein, Arthur Cravan, D.H. Lawrence, and Pablo Neruda. Navigating the emerging field of research-creation, Staging Modernist Lives maps the critical terrain for dramatized literary inquiry. Bridging scholarship and creative practice, extant biographical drama and the possibilities of research-theatre, Staging Modernist Lives demonstrates how performance can deliver literary history to new audiences - and how research in turn reinvigorates itself through performance. 606 $aAmerican drama$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish drama$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zEnglish-speaking countries 606 $aDRAMA / General$2bisacsh 615 0$aAmerican drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 7$aDRAMA / General. 676 $a811.52 686 $aHQ 5999$2rvk 700 $aColby$b Sasha$0915694 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910160346503321 996 $aStaging modernist lives$92052703 997 $aUNINA