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Harold Pinter’S Other Places (Staged Reading), Katherine Weiss
Harold Pinter’S Other Places (Staged Reading), Katherine Weiss
Katherine Weiss
ETSU Patchwork Players will perform a staged reading of Other Places – 3 Plays by Harold Pinter in Studio 205 of Campus Center Building at 7:30 p.m. free of charge. The reading is under the direction of Theatre & Dance faculty member Melissa Shafer and advising of Department of Literature & Language Chair Dr. Katherine Weiss, acting as dramaturg.
Exploding Bombs: Masculinity And War Trauma In Sam Shepard’S Drama, Katherine Weiss
Exploding Bombs: Masculinity And War Trauma In Sam Shepard’S Drama, Katherine Weiss
Katherine Weiss
This paper examines violence and masculinity in Sam Shepard's work as a symptom of war trauma, apparent in his characterization of several of his male characters as war veterans and the violent language accompanying his other characters. War becomes a cultural disease infesting and destroying the family on Shepard's stage.
The Comedy Of Scholarship: Review Of Hugh Kenner’S Flaubert, Joyce And Beckett: The Stoic Comedians, Katherine Weiss
The Comedy Of Scholarship: Review Of Hugh Kenner’S Flaubert, Joyce And Beckett: The Stoic Comedians, Katherine Weiss
Katherine Weiss
Review of Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett: The Stoic Comedians. by Hugh Kenner
Beckett's "Happy Days": Rewinding And Revolving Histories, Katherine Weiss
Beckett's "Happy Days": Rewinding And Revolving Histories, Katherine Weiss
Katherine Weiss
Excerpt: Beckett is keenly interested in ways individuals unsuccesfully atempt to disown their past. His explorations into this reflect his awareness of being a survivor of the Second World War.
Archive Fever, Archive Failure: Exploring The ‘It’ In Beckett’S Theatre, Katherine Weiss
Archive Fever, Archive Failure: Exploring The ‘It’ In Beckett’S Theatre, Katherine Weiss
Katherine Weiss
Using Jacques Derrida's 1995 study, Archive Fever, Weiss examines how Samuel Beckett's Come and Go and Footfalls stage the failed acts of archiving. In both plays, memories are either unknown or not named. Either way, without being named they cannot be collected, catalogued or made public. Despite this, the women haunting his plays seem struck by archive fever. Ultimately, Beckett stages the tension between the desire to remain silent with the desire to archive.