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Autore: |
Glavin John
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Titolo: |
After Dickens : reading, adaptation, and performance / / John Glavin
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Pubblicazione: | Cambridge [England] ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 1999 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 823/.8 |
Soggetto topico: | Performing arts - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Performing arts in literature | |
Stage adaptations | |
Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-222) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | ; pt. I. Set up. ; 1. Dickens, adaptation and Grotowski. ; 2. ... as upon a theatre -- ; pt. II. Flashback. ; 3. ... to be a Shakespeare. ; 4. Exit: "the sanguine mirage" -- ; pt. III. Resolution. ; 5. How to do it. ; 6. Coda. |
Sommario/riassunto: | After Dickens is both a performative reading of Dickens the novelist and an exploration of the potential for adaptive performance of the novels themselves. John Glavin conducts a historical inquiry into Dickens's relationship to the theatre and theatricality of his own time, and uncovers a much more ambivalent, often hostile, relationship than has hitherto been noticed. In this context, Dickens's novels can be seen as a form of counter-performance, one which would allow the author to perform without being seen or scrutinized. But Glavin also identifies a rich performative potential in Dickens's fiction, and describes new ways to stage that fiction in emotionally powerful, critically acute adaptations. The book as a whole, therefore, offers a reading of Dickens through an unusual alliance between literary criticism and theatrical performance. |
Titolo autorizzato: | After Dickens ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-107-11588-4 |
0-521-03237-7 | |
1-280-16190-6 | |
0-511-11713-2 | |
0-511-14943-3 | |
0-511-30966-X | |
0-511-48481-X | |
0-511-05121-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910818681703321 |
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