| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: 單行本
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| 副題名: |
Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter |
| 作者: |
BennettMichael Y., 1980- |
| 其他團體作者: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| 出版地: |
New York, NY |
| 出版者: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| 出版年: |
2011 |
| 面頁冊數: |
1 online resource. |
| 標題: |
European drama - History and criticism. - 20th century - |
| 標題: |
Theater of the absurd. - |
| 標題: |
Absurd (Philosophy) in literature. - |
| 標題: |
Literature. - |
| 標題: |
Fine Arts. - |
| 標題: |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Literary. - |
| 電子資源: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230118829An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| 附註: |
Description based on print version record. |
| 摘要註: |
Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd, which suggests that "absurd" plays purport the meaninglessness of life, Michael Y. Bennett's Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd is a timely reassessment of one of the most important theatre "movements" of the 20th century. Bennett argues that these "absurd" plays are, instead, ethical texts that suggest how life can be made meaningful. Analyzing the works of five major playwrights/writers of the 1950s (including three winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature), Bennett's work challenges fifty years of scholarship though his upbeat and hopeful readings. |
| ISBN: |
9780230118829electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230118828electronic bk. |
| 內容註: |
Introduction: Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd * "The Parable of Estagon's Struggle with the Boot" in Waiting for Godot * The Pinteresque Oedipal Household: The Interrogation Scene(s) in The Birthday Party * The Parable of the White Clown: The Use of Ritual in Jean Genet's The Blacks: A Clown Show * Berenger, The Sisyphean Hero * Conclusion: Theorizing a 'Female Absurd' in Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart as a Means of Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd. Introduction : reassessing the theatre of the abusrd The parable of Estragon's struggle with the boot in Waiting for Godot The Pinteresque Oedipal household : the interrogation scene(s) in The birthday party The parable of the white clown : the use of ritual in Jean Genet's The blacks : a clown show Berenger, the Sisyphean hero Conclusion : theorizing a "female absurd" in Beth Henley's Crimes of the heart as a means of reassessing the theatre of the absurd. |