Theatre and feminist aesthetics /

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Imprint:Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c1995.
Description:331 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1714844
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Other authors / contributors:Laughlin, Kathleen.
Schuler, Catherine, 1952-
ISBN:0838635490 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Why Feminist Aesthetics? / Karen Laughlin
  • 1. Problematics of a Feminist Theatre: The Case of A ma mere, a ma mere, a ma mere, a ma voisine / Jeannelle Laillou Savona
  • 2. The Dis-Play's the Thing: Gender and Public Sphere in Contemporary British Theatre / Loren Kruger
  • 3. American Drama, Feminist Discourse, and Dramatic Form: A Defense of Critical Pluralism / Patricia Schroeder
  • 4. A Gynocratic Feminist Perspective and the Case of Kopit's Indians / Linda Walsh Jenkins
  • 5. Feminist Theory of Theatre: Revolution or Revival? / Patti P. Gillespie
  • 6. Zinaida Gippius: An Unwitting and Unwilling Feminist / Catherine Schuler
  • 7. Simone Schwarz-Bart: Re-figuring Heroics, Disfiguring Conventions / Judith Miller
  • 8. Making Familiar: Martha Boesing and Feminist Dramatic Structure / Lynne Greeley
  • 9. Fearlessly "Looking Under the Bed": Marsha Norman's Feminist Aesthetic in Getting Out and 'night, Mother / Janet Brown and Catherine Barnes Stevenson
  • 10. In My Mother's House: Black Feminist Aesthetics, Television, and A Raisin in the Sun / Sheri Parks
  • 11. Disrupting the Space: Toward a Feminist Aesthetic in Framework, Blind Salome, and Angels of Power / Sandra Shotlander
  • 12. The Female Self and Performance: The Case of The First Actress / Lesley Ferris
  • 13. The Aesthetics of Marginality: The Theatre of Joan Littlewood and Buzz Goodbody / Dympna Callaghan
  • 14. The Feminist Aesthetic and the Male Director: The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs / Harry J. Elam, Jr.
  • 15. Re-Visioning Scenography: A Feminist's Approach to Design for the Theatre / Delores Ringer.