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A retelling of American modernism through the lines of solidarity
and division within and among ethnic and religious identities found
in poetry. What happens if we approach the reading and writing of
poetry not as an individual act, but as a public one? Answering
this question challenges common assumptions about modern poetry and
requires that we explore the important questions that define genre:
Where is this poem situated, and how did it get there? Joshua Logan
Wall's Situating Poetry studies five poets of the New York literary
scene rarely considered together: James Weldon Johnson, Charles
Reznikoff, Lola Ridge, Louis Zukofsky, and Robert Hayden. Charting
their works and careers from 1910-1940, Wall illustrates how these
politically marginalized writers from drastically different
religious backgrounds wrestled with their status as American
outsiders. These poets produced a secularized version of America in
which poetry, rather than God, governed individual obligations to
one another across multiethnic barriers. Adopting a multiethnic and
pluralist approach, Wall argues that each of these poets-two Black,
two Jewish, and one Irish-American anarchist-shares a desire to
create more truly democratic communities through art and through
the covenantal publics created by their poems despite otherwise
sitting uncomfortably, at best, within a more standard literary
history. In this unique account of American modernist poetics,
religious pluralism creates a lens through which to consider the
bounds of solidarity and division within and among ethnic
identities and their corresponding literatures.
A retelling of American modernism through the lines of solidarity
and division within and among ethnic and religious identities found
in poetry. What happens if we approach the reading and writing of
poetry not as an individual act, but as a public one? Answering
this question challenges common assumptions about modern poetry and
requires that we explore the important questions that define genre:
Where is this poem situated, and how did it get there? Joshua Logan
Wall's Situating Poetry studies five poets of the New York literary
scene rarely considered together: James Weldon Johnson, Charles
Reznikoff, Lola Ridge, Louis Zukofsky, and Robert Hayden. Charting
their works and careers from 1910-1940, Wall illustrates how these
politically marginalized writers from drastically different
religious backgrounds wrestled with their status as American
outsiders. These poets produced a secularized version of America in
which poetry, rather than God, governed individual obligations to
one another across multiethnic barriers. Adopting a multiethnic and
pluralist approach, Wall argues that each of these poets-two Black,
two Jewish, and one Irish-American anarchist-shares a desire to
create more truly democratic communities through art and through
the covenantal publics created by their poems despite otherwise
sitting uncomfortably, at best, within a more standard literary
history. In this unique account of American modernist poetics,
religious pluralism creates a lens through which to consider the
bounds of solidarity and division within and among ethnic
identities and their corresponding literatures.
Nellie, a spunky nurse from Arkansas, falls in love with a mature
French planter, Emile. Nellie learns that the mother of his
children was an island native and, unable to turn her back on the
prejudices with which she was raised, refuses Emile's proposal of
marriage. Meanwhile, the strapping Lt. Joe Cable denies himself the
fulfillment of a future with an innocent Tonkinese girl with whom
he's fallen in love out of the same fears that haunt Nellie. When
Emile is recruited to accompany Joe on a dangerous mission that
claims Joe's life, Nellie realizes that life is too short not to
seize her own chance for happiness, thus confronting and conquering
her prejudices. Based on Tales of the South Pacific, James
Michener's collection of short stories, South Pacific opened on
Broadway at the the Majestic Theatre on April 7, 1949, starring
Mary Martin, Ezio Pinza and Juanita Hall. South Pacific received
the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and for the first time the
committee included a composer in the drama prize. The show received
ten Tony Awards (including Best Musical), a Grammy Award and
countless other accolades. For years the second-longest running
show in Broadway history (right behind Oklahoma!), South Pacific
returned to Broadway in a celebrated 2008 revival starring Kelli
O'Hara and Paolo Szot. The show has proven itself a classic in
countless productions around the world and was adapted onscreen in
the 1958 film starring Rossano Brazzi and Mitzi Gaynor and in a
2001 made-for-television film starring Glenn Close and Harry
Connick, Jr.
This is a new release of the original 1950 edition.
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Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
These fresh, original, high-impact monologues and one-acts are
perfect for auditions, classes, scene study and theatrical
presentations. Crafted to be performed by both young actors and
seasoned professionals of all ages, the monologues and scenes in
this book deliver raw emotional power and attention grabbing
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punches. They are unflinching in their language and themes...These
are truly "Scenes That Sizzle!" "Startlingly original and unique,
these scenes are impressive." - Garry Marshall, TV and Film
Director "Excellent theatrical writing!" - Peter Streiber -
Sanford-Meisner Center "Attention getting scenes that shine" -
Rachel Horowitz, Abrams Casting Agency "Josh Brylsteen's stage
writing is brilliant." - Martin Landau, Actor "Memorable characters
that resonate with energy" - Jeremy Zeigler, Agency for the
Performing Arts
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