LEADER 03644nam 2200589 450 001 9910797550403321 005 20201023111955.0 010 $a1-4725-8503-8 010 $a1-4725-8504-6 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472585059 035 $a(CKB)3710000000468407 035 $a(EBL)2191156 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2191156 035 $a(OCoLC)1201426881 035 $a(CaBNVSL)mat72585059 035 $a(CaBNVSL)9781472585059 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000468407 100 $a20201023d2020 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$aLondon, England :$cBloomsbury Methuen Drama,$d2020. 210 2$aLondon, England :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2020 215 $a1 online resource (233 p.) 225 1 $aMethuen Drama engage. 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4725-8501-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and index. 327 $aMonologue in Western Drama -- Monologue in American Performance -- Confessional monologue and the legacy of Spalding Gray -- Post-punk monologue and the Performances of Laurie Anderson -- Rights monologue and the Work of Anna Deavere Smith -- Radical monologue and the Performance of Karen Finley -- Future Monologue. 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 606 $aTheatre studies$2bicssc 615 0$aOratory$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMonologues. 615 7$aTheatre studies 676 $a808.5/109730905 686 $aPER011000$aPER011020$2bisacsh 700 $aPaterson$b Eddie$01542221 801 0$bN 801 1$bCaBNVSL 801 2$bCaBNVSL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797550403321 996 $aThe contemporary American monologue$93794760 997 $aUNINA