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Genus Envy - Nationalities, Identities, and the Performing Body of Work (Hardcover, New)
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Genus Envy - Nationalities, Identities, and the Performing Body of Work (Hardcover, New)
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Spanning across playwrights, performers, critics, and theatrical
commemorations, this book raises controversy about familiar figures
and brings attention to neglected ones. Thomas F. Connolly opens
his book with a provocative essay subtitled "Notional Culture." The
first sentence: "Postmodernism makes others of us all," introduces
Connolly's confrontational approach to the study of culture. The
introduction takes readers from Montaigne's "Cannibals" to Madison
Avenue "gangsta" wannabes, while explicating the impulses behind
formal classification that have driven intellectual pursuits from
the Early Modern Period through postmodernism. The chapter on
Eugene O'Neill argues that his colossal status as the "greatest
American playwright" has been imposed upon him and reduces his
stature as a world playwright. Connolly is the major scholar of
American drama critics and the essay on John Mason Brown has been
called "a fascinating and important piece" by leading theatre
historian David Savran. Other chapters on major European
performers: Noel Coward, Micheal Mac Liammoir, Alexander Moissi and
Viennese theatrical culture, offer analysis of self-creation, the
superficiality of national identity, and the ways governments use
performers. Genus Envy is an important book for all theatre,
cultural studies, and literature collections.
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