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Staging modern American life : popular culture in the experimental theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos
- Title
- Staging modern American life : popular culture in the experimental theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos / Thomas Fahy.
- Author
- Fahy, Thomas Richard.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- 183 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "The theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theater history and literary scholarship, offer a hybrid theater that integrates the popular with the formal, the mainstream with the experimental. Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in their works and offers new readings with an eye to American cultural studies and the impact of mass entertainment on modern life"--
- Series Statement
- What is theatre
- Uniform Title
- What is theatre?
- Subject
- Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 > Dramatic works
- Cummings, E. E. 1894-1962 > Dramatic works
- Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 > Dramatic works
- American drama > 20th century > History and criticism
- Experimental drama, American > History and criticism
- Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century
- Popular culture in literature
- Experimental theater > United States > History > 20th century
- PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama
- PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction -- "I cannot live without a macaroon!" : food, hunger, and the dangers of modern American culture in Edna St. Vincent Millay's Aria da Capo and other plays -- "Damn everything but the circus!" : the ambiguous place of popular culture in E. E. Cummings' Him -- Planes, trains, and automobiles : technology and the suburban nightmare in the plays of John Dos Passos -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFD 11-4212
- ISBN
- 9780230115958 (hardback)
- 0230115950 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2011010323
- OCLC
- YBP 2011010323
- Author
- Fahy, Thomas Richard.
- Title
- Staging modern American life : popular culture in the experimental theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos / Thomas Fahy.
- Imprint
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Series
- What is theatreWhat is theatre?
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 11-4212