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The drama of the American short story, 1800-1865 / / Michael J. Collins
| The drama of the American short story, 1800-1865 / / Michael J. Collins |
| Autore | Collins Michael J (Michael James), <1984-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (279 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 813/.010903 |
| Soggetto topico |
Short stories, American - History and criticism
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism Performance in literature Performing arts in literature Theater in literature Ritual in literature National characteristics, American, in literature |
| ISBN | 0-472-12216-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The Irving brothers at the Park Theatre, 1802 -- "No garden of thought, nor elysium of fancy": Washington Irving's The sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent -- The rites of pure brotherhood: fraternalism and performance in Poe and Lippard -- "The rule of men entirely great": Richelieu, ritual, and republicanism in Melville's diptychs -- The "child of nature," or the "wonder of the age": Melville's child prodigies -- "Contending for an empire": performing sincerity in Hawthorne's New England -- Epilogue: Louisa May Alcott's theatrical realism. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910151624503321 |
Collins Michael J (Michael James), <1984->
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| Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , [2016] | ||
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Performance and femininity in eighteenth-century German women's writing [[electronic resource] ] : the impossible act / / Wendy Arons
| Performance and femininity in eighteenth-century German women's writing [[electronic resource] ] : the impossible act / / Wendy Arons |
| Autore | Arons Wendy <1964-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Disciplina | 830.9/928709033 |
| Collana | Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history |
| Soggetto topico |
Women authors, German - 18th century
German literature - Women authors - History and criticism German literature - 18th century - History and criticism Performance in literature Femininity in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-36074-0
9786611360740 0-230-60073-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Sophie" and the "Theater"; 2 Performance as Power: The History of Lady von Sternheim; 3 The Performance of a Lifetime: Karoline Schulze-Kummerfeld; 4 Antitheatricality and the Public Woman: Marianne Ehrmann's Amalie: A True Story in Letters; 5 The Eye of the Beholder: Elise Bürger's "Aglaja" and F. H. Unger's Melanie, the Foundling; 6 Play's the Thing: Sophie Mereau's "Marie" and "Flight to the City"; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451220703321 |
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Arons Wendy <1964->
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| New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Performance and femininity in eighteenth-century German women's writing [[electronic resource] ] : the impossible act / / Wendy Arons
| Performance and femininity in eighteenth-century German women's writing [[electronic resource] ] : the impossible act / / Wendy Arons |
| Autore | Arons Wendy <1964-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (281 p.) |
| Disciplina | 830.9/928709033 |
| Collana | Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history |
| Soggetto topico |
Women authors, German - 18th century
German literature - Women authors - History and criticism German literature - 18th century - History and criticism Performance in literature Femininity in literature |
| ISBN |
1-281-36074-0
9786611360740 0-230-60073-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Sophie" and the "Theater"; 2 Performance as Power: The History of Lady von Sternheim; 3 The Performance of a Lifetime: Karoline Schulze-Kummerfeld; 4 Antitheatricality and the Public Woman: Marianne Ehrmann's Amalie: A True Story in Letters; 5 The Eye of the Beholder: Elise Bürger's "Aglaja" and F. H. Unger's Melanie, the Foundling; 6 Play's the Thing: Sophie Mereau's "Marie" and "Flight to the City"; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784241403321 |
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Arons Wendy <1964->
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| New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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They aren't, until I call them [[electronic resource] ] : performing the subject in American literature / / Enikő Bollobás
| They aren't, until I call them [[electronic resource] ] : performing the subject in American literature / / Enikő Bollobás |
| Autore | Bollobás Enikő |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Frankfurt am Main ; ; New York, : Peter Lang, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (238 p.) |
| Disciplina | 820 |
| Soggetto topico |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Performance in literature American literature - Themes, motives |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-299-41041-3
3-653-00209-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 7; INTRODUCTION 9; CHAPTER ONE: THE STRONG PERFORMATIVE 25; The performative: early history 25; Logos, the originary instance of the strong performative: some Biblical examples 31; A performative genre par excellence: the declaration and the manifesto 38; Word power (Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; Norman Mailer, 'The Time of Her Time') 45; Alternative realities as performative creations (Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger; Ambrose Bierce, 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge') 50
The language games of irony and make-believe (Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) 59CHAPTER TWO: EXTENDING THE PERFORMATIVE 71; Performativity in theories of the subject 73; Performance and performative constructions of the subject 85; Performativity of reading and writing 89; Presupposition 92; Presupposition and the (performative) production of meaning 93; CHAPTER THREE: PERFORMING GENDER 97; Recipes for men and women: gender as (hetero)sexualized performance 103; Gender performances and performative genders 106 Performances of gender compliance (Henry James, Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie; Kate Chopin, The Awakening, 'A Pair of Silk Stockings'; Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth) 108; The performance of cultural codes: the Southern woman (William Faulkner, 'A Rose for Emily'; Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire; Flannery O'Connor, 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find') 120; Some misogynist reversals (Jonathan Swift, 'A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed,' T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land) 129 Performative genders: non-compliance with social norms (Gertrude Stein, Three Lives Willa Cather, My Ántonia; Djuna Barnes, Nightwood; H.D., HERmione; Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe) 131; CHAPTER FOUR: PERFORMING SEXUALITY 151; The new kid on the block of binary thinking: conceptualizing the homosexual 153; The resisting narrative: homosexual subtext beneath the heterosexual text (Henry James, 'The Beast in the Jungle,' 'In the Cage') 156; CHAPTER FIVE: PERFORMING PASSING 167; Gender passing (Mark Twain, Is He Dead?; Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita; David Hwang, M. Butterfly) 168 The convergence of categories: race and class passing (James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Nella Larsen, Passing; Philip Roth, The Human Stain) 182; CONCLUSION 201; WORKS CITED 205; INDEX 225 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910306598903321 |
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Bollobás Enikő
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| Frankfurt am Main ; ; New York, : Peter Lang, c2010 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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