Theaters of the Everyday - Jacob Gallagher-Ross

Theaters of the Everyday

Aesthetic Democracy on the American Stage
Buch | Hardcover
248 Seiten
2018
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-3667-0 (ISBN)
123,45 inkl. MwSt
Examines a vital but little-recognized current in American theatrical history: the dramatic representation of the quotidian and mundane. Jacob Gallagher-Ross shows how twentieth-century American theatre became a space for negotiating the demands of innovative form and democratic availability.
Theaters of the Everyday: Aesthetic Democracy on the American Stage reveals a vital but little-recognized current in American theatrical history: the dramatic representation of the quotidian and mundane. Jacob Gallagher-Ross shows how twentieth-century American theater became a space for negotiating the demands of innovative form and democratic availability.

Offering both fresh reappraisals of canonical figures and movements and new examinations of theatrical innovators, Theaters of the Everyday reveals surprising affinities between artists often considered poles apart, such as John Cage and Lee Strasberg, and Thornton Wilder and the New York experimentalist Nature Theater of Oklahoma. Gallagher-Ross persuasively shows how these creators eschew conventional definitions of dramatic action and focus attention on smaller but no less profound dramas of perception, consciousness, and day-to-day life.

Gallagher-Ross traces some of the intellectual roots of the theater of the everyday to American transcendentalism, with its pragmatic, process philosophy as well as its sense of quotidian experience as the wellspring of aesthetic awareness. Telling a new story about the American theater, Theaters of the Everyday adds drama and performance to scholarly conversations about the centrality of the everyday to artistic and literary modernism.

Jacob Gallagher-Ross is an assistant professor of English and drama at the University of Toronto.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Evanston
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 498 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-8101-3667-8 / 0810136678
ISBN-13 978-0-8101-3667-0 / 9780810136670
Zustand Neuware
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