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Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment in American Theater
tells the story of how American theater has shaped popular
understandings of the environment throughout the twentieth century
as it argues for theater's potential power in the age of climate
change. Using cultural and environmental history, seven chapters
interrogate key moments in American theater and American
environmentalism over the course of the twentieth century in the
United States. It focuses, in particular, on how drama has
represented environmental injustice and how inequality has become
part of the American environmental landscape. As the first
book-length ecocritical study of American theater, Earth Matters
examines both familiar dramas and lesser-known grassroots plays in
an effort to show that theater can be a powerful force for social
change from frontier drama of the late nineteenth century to the
eco-theater movement. This book argues that theater has always and
already been part of the history of environmental ideas and action
in the United States. Earth Matters also maps the rise of an
ecocritical thought and eco-theater practice - what the author
calls ecodramaturgy - showing how theater has informed
environmental perceptions and policies. Through key plays and
productions, it identifies strategies for artists who want their
work to contribute to cultural transformation in the face of
climate change.
Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment in American Theater
tells the story of how American theater has shaped popular
understandings of the environment throughout the twentieth century
as it argues for theater's potential power in the age of climate
change. Using cultural and environmental history, seven chapters
interrogate key moments in American theater and American
environmentalism over the course of the twentieth century in the
United States. It focuses, in particular, on how drama has
represented environmental injustice and how inequality has become
part of the American environmental landscape. As the first
book-length ecocritical study of American theater, Earth Matters
examines both familiar dramas and lesser-known grassroots plays in
an effort to show that theater can be a powerful force for social
change from frontier drama of the late nineteenth century to the
eco-theater movement. This book argues that theater has always and
already been part of the history of environmental ideas and action
in the United States. Earth Matters also maps the rise of an
ecocritical thought and eco-theater practice - what the author
calls ecodramaturgy - showing how theater has informed
environmental perceptions and policies. Through key plays and
productions, it identifies strategies for artists who want their
work to contribute to cultural transformation in the face of
climate change.
The Norton Introduction to Literature offers the trusted writing
and reading guidance students need, along with an exciting mix of
the stories, poems and plays instructors want. The Shorter
Fourteenth Edition is the most inclusive ever, with more
contemporary and timely works sure to engage today's students. New
media-rich pedagogical tools further foster close reading and
careful writing, making this book the best choice for helping all
students understand, analyse and write about literature.
His mother was against it, but he grew up to be a cowboy anyway.
Zane Grey was a corn-fed mid-westerner who ended up an unhappy
dentist in New York City. After a journey to Arizona and Utah in
1907, he decided he would rather wear chaps and a Stetson rather
than return to a mundane life pulling teeth in Manhattan. Thus
began his career as a writer. Zane Grey faced mountains of
rejection and disappointment in publishing his early novels, but
when Riders of the Purple Sage was published in 1912, and it set in
motion the entire western genre in books, movies, and eventually
country western music. It was and remains an epic, colorful novel,
filled with action, romance, and vivid descriptions of the Old
West. Drawing on his letter, diaries, and personal papers, the
story of his growth as a writer and of the creation of this book is
a rag to riches saga sure to appeal to writers of any age, history
buffs, motion picture fans, and lovers of music. Plus, it is a
story set against the grandeur and sublimity of the American west.
This is a succinct guide to the application and modelling of
dependence models or copulas in the financial markets. First
applied to credit risk modelling, copulas are now widely used
across a range of derivatives transactions, asset pricing
techniques and risk models and are a core part of the financial
engineer's toolkit.
James A. Michener was one of the most beloved storytellers of
our time, captivating readers with sweeping historical plots that
educated and entertained. In this first full-length biography of
the private as well as the public Michener, Stephen J. May reveals
how an aspiring writer became a best-selling novelist. It is the
only book to draw on Michener's complete papers as well as
interviews with his friends and associates. The result conveys much
about Michener never before revealed in print.
May follows the young Michener from an impoverished Pennsylvania
childhood to the wartime Pacific, where he found inspiration for
"Tales of the South Pacific," a book that led to a string of best
sellers, including "The Source, Centennial, Chesapeake, " and "The
Covenant." May provides insights into Michener's personal life: his
three marriages, his unique working methods, and his social and
political views. He also reveals the author's hypersensitivity to
criticism, his egotism, and his failure on some occasions to
acknowledge the contributions of his assistants.
Examining Michener's body of writing in its biographical and
cultural contexts, May describes the creation of each novel and
assesses the book's strengths and shortcomings. His close readings
underscore Michener's innovativeness in presenting mountains of
historical and cultural research in an engaging literary form.
This probing biography establishes Michener's place in
twentieth-century letters as it offers an unprecedented view of the
man behind the typewriter.
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