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The death and life of drama : reflections on writing and human nature /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lee, Lance, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
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.