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050 00 $aPN4055.U5$bP38 2015
082 00 $a808.5/109730905$223
084 $aPER011000$aPER011020$2bisacsh
100 1 $aPaterson, Eddie,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe contemporary American monologue :$bperformance and politics /$cEddie Paterson.
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bBloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,$c2015.
300 $axii, 217 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aMethuen drama engage
520 $a"Talk-show confessions, online rants, stand-up routines, inspirational speeches, banal reflections and calls to arms: we live in an age of solo voices demanding to be heard. In The Contemporary American Monologue Eddie Paterson looks at the pioneering work of US artists Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, Anna Deavere Smith and Karen Finley, and the development of solo performance in the US as a method of cultural and political critique. Ironic confession, post-punk poetry, investigations of race and violence, and subversive polemic, this book reveals the link between the rise of radical monologue in the late 20th century and history of speechmaking, politics, civil rights, individual freedom and the American Dream in the United States. It shows how US artists are speaking back to the cultural, political and economic forces that shape the world. Eddie Patterson traces the importance of the monologue in Shakespeare, Brecht, Beckett, Chekov, Pinter, O'Neill and Williams, before offering a comprehensive analysis of several of the most influential and innovative American practitioners of monologue performance. The volume also contains an interview with artist Karen Finley, on the trajectory of her recent works. The Contemporary American Monologue constitutes the first book-length account of US monologists that links the tradition of oratory and speechmaking in the colony to the appearance of solo performance as a distinctly American phenomenon"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- IntroductionChapter 1: Monologue in Drama Chapter 2: Monologue in the US Chapter 3: Confessional monologue: Spalding GrayChapter 4: Punk monologue: Laurie AndersonChapter 5: Rights monologue: Anna Deavere SmithChapter 6: Radical monologue: Karen FinleyChapter 7: Future monologues Addendum: 'I didn't fall asleep' an interview with Karen FinleyEndnotesIndex.
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650 0 $aAmerican drama$y21st century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aMonologues.
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650 7 $aPERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism.$2bisacsh
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830 0 $aMethuen drama engage.
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