The death and life of drama : reflections on writing and human nature /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2005.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Immediate issues
- 1. By the ocean of time
- Time
- The argument we are caught in
- Time and drama
- Slow vs. Swift
- 2. The heavy as opposed to
- The heavy vs. the exhilarating
- Freud, civilization, and the heavy
- The descent into the heavy
- 3. Moral substance and ambiguity
- Morality and screenplays?
- Typing and volition in
- The heavy and moral
- But what are we morally ambiguous about?
- 4. Complexity vs. Fullness
- Belief vs. disbelief: complexity
- Fullness
- Typing, volition, and fullness
- Endings
- Part II. The cooked and the raw
- 5. The cooked and the raw
- Cooked emotion
- The raw
- Blending the cooked and the raw
- Antecedents
- 6. The smart and the dumb
- Flat and round
- Hamlet and the dumb
- John Nash and the Smart
- Plot-Handling Implications
- Part III. The lost poetics of comedy
- 7. The lost poetics of comedy
- The comic universe
- Winnicott and play
- Some diagrams
- The two roads
- The bones of the comic angle of vision
- The cooked and comedy
- The new beginning in comedy
- The smart and dumb in comedy
- Part IV. The nature of dramatic action
- 8. The weight of the past
- What is the past?
- High noon
- Lantana
- Wild strawberries
- Lifting weights
- 9. The weight of the wrong decision
- The wrong decision in the past
- The wrong decision in the present
- True heroines and heroes and false
- 10. The nature of the hero's journey
- Campbell's hero
- The dramatic hero
- 1. Arresting life
- 2. Complying with the false
- 3. Awakening
- 4. Confused growth and the pursuit of error
- 5. Failure of the false solution
- 6. The discovery of the true Solution
- 7. The heroic deed
- 8. Suffering
- 9. The new life
- Part V. The death and life of drama
- 11. The death and life of drama
- Prometheus in Athens, gladiator in Rome
- Shakespeare in Elizabeth's London
- The argument we are having with ourselves
- Appendix: a case Study
- Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander.