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Auteur(s) : Paterson, Eddie
Titre(s) : The contemporary American monologue [Texte imprimé] : performance and politics / Eddie Paterson
Publication : London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-217 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection : Methuen drama engage
Lien à la collection : Methuen drama engage
Comprend : Introduction ; Chapter 1: Monologue in Drama ; Chapter 2: Monologue in the US
; Chapter 3: Confessional monologue: Spalding Gray ; Chapter 4: Punk monologue: Laurie
Anderson ; Chapter 5: Rights monologue: Anna Deavere Smith ; Chapter 6: Radical
monologue: Karen Finley ; Chapter 7: Future monologues Addendum: 'I didn't fall asleep'
an interview with Karen Finley ; Endnotes ; Index.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 195-208. Index
"Talk-show confessions, online rants, stand-up routines, inspirational speeches, banal
reflections and calls to arms: we live in an age of solo voices demanding to be heard.
In The Contemporary American Monologue Eddie Paterson looks at the pioneering work
of US artists Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, Anna Deavere Smith and Karen Finley,
and the development of solo performance in the US as a method of cultural and political
critique. Ironic confession, post-punk poetry, investigations of race and violence,
and subversive polemic, this book reveals the link between the rise of radical monologue
in the late 20th century and history of speechmaking, politics, civil rights, individual
freedom and the American Dream in the United States. It shows how US artists are speaking
back to the cultural, political and economic forces that shape the world. Eddie Patterson
traces the importance of the monologue in Shakespeare, Brecht, Beckett, Chekov, Pinter,
O'Neill and Williams, before offering a comprehensive analysis of several of the most
influential and innovative American practitioners of monologue performance. The volume
also contains an interview with artist Karen Finley, on the trajectory of her recent
works. The Contemporary American Monologue constitutes the first book-length account
of US monologists that links the tradition of oratory and speechmaking in the colony
to the appearance of solo performance as a distinctly American phenomenon"
Sujet(s) : Monologues dramatiques
Discours (art oratoire) -- États-Unis -- 1970-....
Art de parler en public -- États-Unis -- 1970-....
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781472585028. - ISBN 147258502X (rel.). - ISBN 9781472585011. - ISBN 1472585011.
- ISBN 9781472585042 (erroné). - ISBN 9781472585035 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb451905713
Notice n° :
FRBNF45190571
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