Carnival texts : three plays for ensemble performance /

Carnival Texts comprises three related dramatic works, all of which have as their point of departure Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of carnival, a literary style designed to subvert dominant assumptions through chaos and humour. Making creative use of post-Brechtian performance theo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: MacDonald, James, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol ; Chicago : Intellect, 2011.
Colección:Playtext series.
Temas:
Drama.
Carnival in literature.
Performing arts > Study and teaching (Higher)
Théâtre (Genre littéraire)
Carnavals dans la littérature.
plays (performing arts compositions)
drama (literary genre)
Theatre studies.
Art > Criticism & Theory.
Carnival in literature
Drama
Théâtre.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. one. Texts: Strangers to paradise
  • Brides, bombs and boardrooms
  • Fete
  • pt. two. Essays: Fear into laughter / James MacDonald
  • Bodies in pain: realism and the subversion of spectacle in brides, bombs and boardrooms / John Lutz
  • Blowing up the nation: vulnerability and violence in James MacDonald's post-national England / Jessica O'Hara.

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