LEADER 03321nam 2200481 450 001 9910511644703321 005 20170918153241.0 010 $a1-4725-8504-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000468407 035 $a(EBL)2191156 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2191156 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000468407 100 $a20150227d2015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe contemporary American monologue $eperformance and politics /$fEddie Paterson 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Methuen Drama,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (233 p.) 225 1 $aMethuen drama engage 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4725-8501-1 327 $aMachine 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. 330 $a"Talk-show confessions, online rants, stand-up routines, inspirational speeches, banal reflections and calls to arms: we live in an age of solo voices demanding to be heard. In The Contemporary American Monologue Eddie Paterson looks at the pioneering work of US artists Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, Anna Deavere Smith and Karen Finley, and the development of solo performance in the US as a method of cultural and political critique. Ironic confession, post-punk poetry, investigations of race and violence, and subversive polemic, this book reveals the link between the rise of radical monologue in the late 20th century and history of speechmaking, politics, civil rights, individual freedom and the American Dream in the United States. It shows how US artists are speaking back to the cultural, political and economic forces that shape the world. Eddie Patterson traces the importance of the monologue in Shakespeare, Brecht, Beckett, Chekov, Pinter, O'Neill and Williams, before offering a comprehensive analysis of several of the most influential and innovative American practitioners of monologue performance. The volume also contains an interview with artist Karen Finley, on the trajectory of her recent works. The Contemporary American Monologue constitutes the first book-length account of US monologists that links the tradition of oratory and speechmaking in the colony to the appearance of solo performance as a distinctly American phenomenon"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aMethuen drama engage. 606 $aOratory$zUnited States$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aAmerican drama$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMonologues 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aOratory$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMonologues. 676 $a808.5/109730905 700 $aPaterson$b Eddie$01067723 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910511644703321 996 $aThe contemporary American monologue$92551812 997 $aUNINA