American Drama The Bastard Art

Zusammenfassung Susan Harris Smith here looks at the many often conflicting cultural and academic reasons for the neglect and dismissal of American drama as a legitimate literary form. Smith's study is a contentious and revisionist historical inquiry into the troubled cultural and canonical status of American drama. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: the problem of American drama; 2. Generic hegemony: the exclusion of American drama; 3. No corner in her own house: what is American about American drama?; 4. Did she jump or was she pushed? American drama in the university curriculum; 5. Caught in the close embrace: sociology and realism; 6. Conclusion: beyond hegemony and canonicity; References; Index.

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• Authors: Susan Harris Smith, Smith Susan Harris, Susan Harris (University of Pittsburgh) Smith
• Assisted by: Don B. Wilmeth (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 23.11.2006
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet
• EAN: 9780521032421
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03242-1
• Pages: 260
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American > 5