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The Theatre of Christopher Durang

By: Miriam Chirico

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The Theatre of Christopher Durang

By: Miriam Chirico

The Theatre of Christopher Durang considers the works of one of the foremost comedic writers for the American stage. From Durang's early success with the controversial Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (1974) to his recent Tony Award-winning play, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (2012), he has been an original theatrical voice in American theatre. Edith Oliver, long-time theatre critic for The New Yorker, described Durang as “one of the funniest men in the world.” Durang challenges traditional dramatic idioms with his irreverent comedies that are as shocking as they are prescient and compassionate. This volume provides the first comprehensive examination of Durang's works and incorporates comedic theory to examine how laughter in performance subverts social conventions and hierarchies. Through a clear, detailed discussion of the plays, Miriam Chirico considers Durang's use of black comedy, satire, and parody to explode such topics as: western literature, religion, dysfunctional families, and American social malaise. Robert Combs and Jay Malarcher provide additional critical perspectives about Durang's works, detailing his use of alienation techniques and locating his place within the American parodic tradition. The book also includes a warm introduction by Durang's former student, Pulitzer Prize-winner, David Lindsay-Abaire. The Theatre of Christopher Durang, in demonstrating how Durang has shaped contemporary theatrical possibilities, offers a valuable guide for students of American drama and comedy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474288936

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9781474288934

A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser

Mechanic of Splendor

By: Miriam Nichols

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A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser

Mechanic of Splendor

By: Miriam Nichols

A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser: Mechanic of Splendor is the first major study illustrating Robin Blaser’s significance to North American poetry. The poet Robin Blaser (1925–2009) was an important participant in the Berkeley Renaissance of the 1950s and San Francisco poetry circles of the 1960s. The book illuminates Blaser’s distinctive responses to and relationships with familiar writers including Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, and Charles Olson via their correspondence. Blaser contributed to the formation of the serial poem as a dominant mode in post-war New American poetry through his work and engagement with the poetry communities of the time. Offering a new perspective on a well-known and influential period in American poetry, Miriam Nichols combines the story of Blaser’s life—coming from a mid-western conservative religious upbringing and his coming of age as a gay man in Berkeley, Boston, and San Francisco—with critical assessments of his major poems through unprecedented archival research. This literary biography presents Blaser’s poetry and poetics in the many contexts from which it came, ranging from the Berkeley Renaissance to the Vancouver scene; from surrealism to phenomenology; from the New American poetry to the Canadian postmodern; from the homoerotic to high theory. Throughout, Blaser’s voice is heard in the excitement of his early years in Berkeley and Boston and the seriousness of the later years where he was doing most of his living in his work.

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317

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Springer Nature

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3030183270

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9783030183271

Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Civil War

By: Dr Miriam Basilio

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Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Civil War

By: Dr Miriam Basilio

Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Civil War is a history of art during wartime that analyzes images in various media that circulated widely and were encountered daily by Spaniards on city walls, in print, and in exhibitions. The book draws on extensive archival research, brings to light unpublished documents, and examines visual propaganda, exhibitions, and texts unavailable in English. It engages with questions of national self-definition and historical memory at their intersections with the fine arts, visual culture, exhibition history, tourism, and propaganda during the Spanish Civil War and immediate post-war period, as well as contemporary responses to the contested legacy of the Spanish Civil War. It will be of interest to scholars in art history, visual and cultural history, history, and museum studies.

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344

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409464814

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9781409464815

Sequins and Skeletons

The Art of Miriam Wosk

By: Miriam Wosk

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The Art of Miriam Wosk

By: Miriam Wosk

This full-colour art book enters into the studio, process and inner world of California artist Miriam Wosk. The featured collages are highly patterned, ornamental and colourful. Her recurring theme is the marvellous abundance of life in all its forms, whether human or animal, biological or botanical. The dazzling large scale, thickly encrusted paintings depict a unique world reflecting Wosk's visions, dreams and metaphysical imagination. Introduction by Milton Glaser.

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The Theatre of Christopher Durang

By: Miriam Chirico

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474288936

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Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33

Theatres of War

By: Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix

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Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33

Theatres of War

By: Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix

Theatre History Studies 2014, Volume 33, brings together an original collection of essays that explore a topic of growing interest--theatre and war.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817358072

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9780817358075

Book's by Miriam Chirico

The Theatre of Christopher Durang

The Theatre of Christopher Durang

A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser

A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser

Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Civil War

Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Civil War

Sequins and Skeletons

Sequins and Skeletons

The Theatre of Christopher Durang

The Theatre of Christopher Durang

Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33

Theatre History Studies 2014, Vol. 33

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