Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama

by Martin Puchner

Book Overview

Grounded equally in discussions of theater history, literary genre, and theory, Martin Puchner's Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama explores the conflict between avant-garde theater and modernism. While the avant-garde celebrated all things theatrical, a dominant strain of modernism tended to define itself against the theater, valuing lyric poetry and the novel instead. Defenders of the theater dismiss modernism's aversion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421403994
• ISBN13: 9781421403991
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher