Bad Pennies and Dead Presidents Money in Modern American Drama.
This study closely analyzes key works by five pivotal playwrights: Sidney Kingsley, Arthur Miller, David Mamet, August Wilson, and Suzan-Lori Parks, in a comparison of the treatment of money in a range of American plays from the Great Depression to the early twenty-first century. Money emerges as a...
| Основен автор: | Dietrick, Jon. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2012.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=524011 |
| Резюме: |
This study closely analyzes key works by five pivotal playwrights: Sidney Kingsley, Arthur Miller, David Mamet, August Wilson, and Suzan-Lori Parks, in a comparison of the treatment of money in a range of American plays from the Great Depression to the early twenty-first century. Money emerges as a site of anxieties regarding the relation of signs to the real: a "monstrous" substance that seems to breed itself from itself; a dangerous abstraction that claims for itself a "hard" reality, tran ... |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (151 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781443842846 1443842842 |