Realism and the American dramatic tradition / edited by William W. Demastes.

Other author Demastes, William W.
Format Book
Publication InfoTuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1996.
Description290 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
American drama--20th century. --History and criticism.
Realism in literature.

Contents The Struggle for the real--interpretive conflict, dramatic method, and the paradox of realism / Brian Richardson -- The Legacy of James A. Herne: American realities and realisms / Patricia D. Denison -- Whose realism? Rachel Crothers's power struggle in the American theatre / Yvonne Shafer -- The Provincetown players' experiments with realism / J. Ellen Gainor -- Servant of three masters: realism, idealism, and 'hokum' in American high comedy / Robert F. Gross -- Remembering the disremembered: feminist realists of the Harlem renaissance / Patricia R. Schroeder -- Eugene O'Neill and reality in America / Frank R. Cunningham -- 'Odets, where is thy sting?' Reassessing the 'playwright of the proletariat' / John W. Frick -- Thornton Wilder, the real, and theatrical realism / Christopher J. Wheatley -- Into the foxhole: feminism, realism, and Lillian Hellman / Judith E. Barlow -- Tennessee Williams's 'personal lyricism': toward an androgynous form / Thomas P. Adler -- Arthur Miller: revisioning realism / Brenda Murphy -- Margins in the mainstream: contemporary women playwrights / Janet V. Haedicke -- The Limits of African-American political realism: Baraka's Dutchman and Wilson's Ma Rainey's black bottom / Eric Bergesen and William W. Demastes -- Anti-theatricality and American ideology: Mamet's performative realism / Michael L. Quinn -- The Hurlyburly lies of the causalist mind: chaos and the realism of Rabe and Shepard / William W. Demastes and MIchael Vanden Heuvel.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 96004682
ISBN0817308377 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS338.R42 R43 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold