Text & Presentation, 2014 -

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Résumé :
Text & Presentation gathers some of the best work presented at the 2014 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore. The subjects explored in this volume range from ancient to contemporary and encompass great cultural and intellectual diversity. The highlight of the conference was a presentation by award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang. A transcript of Hwang's conversation is the lead piece, followed by twelve research papers, one review essay and ten book reviews. This volume accurately represents the diversity of the annual conference, and represents the latest research in the fields of comparative drama, performance and dramatic textual analysis....

Biographie:
Graley Herren is a professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati, USA and an executive board member for the Comparative Drama Conference. He has published widely on modern literature, with an emphasis upon the drama of Samuel Beckett.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
A Conversation with David Henry Hwang (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.)
Translating Tempests: A Reading of Aim? C?saire's Une Temp?te in Translation (Giuseppe Sofo)
Telemachos, the Odyssey and Hamlet (Bruce Louden)
Cognitive Misappraisal in Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan delete(Todd O. Williams)
Primal, Pure or Something in Between? Aida Walker, Dance and
Sexuality (Elizabeth M. Cizmar)
Mediating ?East-West Binarisms: A Study of ?Al-Hakim's Hybrid
Plays (Ahmed Mohammed Ghaleb)
Fragments Shored: Some Remarks on T. S. Eliot's Drama and the Uses of Hugh Grant's Vacancy (Doug Phillips)
Cabaret and the ?Avant-Garde (Brigitte Bogar and Christopher Innes)
Fifty Years of Ariane Mnouchkine and the Th??tre du Soleil: The Director as Dramaturge, Theater Historian and Public Intellectual (Allen J. Kuharski)
Norodom Sihanouk: The Unfinished Story of American Global
Totalitarianism by H?l?ne Cixous and the Th??tre du Soleil (Les Essif)
Oedipus King / Oedipus Pig: Nanos Valaoritis's Ludic Politics (Vassiliki Rapti)
Friends Dying Before Our Eyes in Annie Baker's The Aliens (Thomas Butler)
A Comparative Analysis of Three Plays on Disasters: Omnium Gatherum, Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave, and Radio 311 (Yuko Kurahashi)
Perceptions of Memory and Mechanisms of Power: Beckett,
Williams and Pinter (Doug Phillips)
Review of Literature: Selected Books
Penny Farfan and Lesley Ferris, eds. Contemporary Women
Playwrights (Michael Y. Bennett)
Arturo J. Aldama, Chela Sandoval and Peter J. Garc?a, eds. Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands (Suzanne M. Bost)
Tony Jason Stafford. Shaw's Settings: Gardens and Libraries (Rebecca S. Cameron)
Michael Y. Bennett. Narrating the Past through Theatre: Four
Crucial Texts (Alex Feldman)
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. Black Medea: Adaptations in Modern Plays (Mathias Hanses)
Marianne Novy. Shakespeare and Outsiders (Peter Kanelos)
Ryan Claycomb. Lives in Play: Autobiography and Biography on the Feminist Stage (Amelia Howe Kritzer)
Andrew Sofer. Dark Matter: Invisibility in Drama, Theater and Performance (Jeffrey B. Loomis)
Philip C. Kolin and Harvey Young, eds. Suzan-Lori Parks in Person:
Interviews and Commentaries (Jaye Austin Williams)
Siyuan Liu. Performing Hybridity in ?Colonial-Modern China (Leo Shingchi Yip)
Index
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