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"New Literary History" And The Postmodern Paradigm: Implications For Theatre History., Robert Gerard Staggenborg
"New Literary History" And The Postmodern Paradigm: Implications For Theatre History., Robert Gerard Staggenborg
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Thomas S. Kuhn writes of disciplinary paradigms, presuppositions tactily setting the epistemological boundaries of a particular field or of the vision of a particular epoch. In the past decade, a paradigmatic revolution has deeply altered the western world's sense of reality. A new postmodern paradigm has emerged and evidenced itself in such critical approaches to art as semiotics, phenomenology, poststructuralism, and hermeneutics. The aim of the present study is to identify the central theoretical perspective offered by the new paradigm, to examine and define the central critico-historical principles stemming from such a perspective, and to relate these principles to the …
The Use Of The Grotesque In The Plays Of Edward Bond., Ann Marie Demling
The Use Of The Grotesque In The Plays Of Edward Bond., Ann Marie Demling
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
A contemporary English dramatist, Edward Bond writes plays that have often been controversial because of their use of cruelty, violence, and other forms of bizarre behavior which can be considered grotesque. The grotesque is a concept originating in the fifteenth century as a term referring to primitive artwork combining various forms to create a fanciful design. The term broadened in the eighteenth century to include literature and drama. Possessing a negative connotation, it referred to elements which were ridiculous, incongruous, absurd, or deformed. The Romanticists of the nineteenth century favored the grotesque as a valid aesthetic element which acted as …
The Theatre Management Of Alexandre Placide In Charleston, 1794-1812. (Volumes I And Ii) (South Carolina)., Richard Phillip Sodders
The Theatre Management Of Alexandre Placide In Charleston, 1794-1812. (Volumes I And Ii) (South Carolina)., Richard Phillip Sodders
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This study focuses upon the management career of Alexandre Placide (c. 1750-1812) in Charleston, South Carolina, between 1794 and 1812. Initially a performer of pantomimes, ballets, and acrobatics, Placide came to America in 1791 after a distinguished career of approximately twenty-one years in Europe and the French colony of Saint-Domingue. For two years, he appeared in the principal theatre centers of this country, and in 1794, he arrived in Charleston to manage John Sollee's French Theatre, the most important French-speaking playhouse of early America, except for New Orleans. He eventually became the leading theatre figure in Charleston, and by 1802, …