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Distance Manipulation: The Russian Modernist Search for a New Drama (SRLT)
Joanna Kot
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Hardcover.
At the turn of the century, there appeared in the Western world a stream of literary and dramatic works that confused their audiences to an unprecedented degree. Using five early 20th-century Russian plays, Kot examines the techniques, devices and elements the playwrights applied to undercut the traditional dramatic and theatrical expectations of their audiences. Kot argues that these playwrights are actively searching for answers to the existential and philosophical questions that they pose, and ask their audience to do the same. Obilgingly, Kot does just this, and includes an analysis of ""Cherry Orchard"" the last and greatest play by the ... Read more
At the turn of the century, there appeared in the Western world a stream of literary and dramatic works that confused their audiences to an unprecedented degree. Using five early 20th-century Russian plays, Kot examines the techniques, devices and elements the playwrights applied to undercut the traditional dramatic and theatrical expectations of their audiences. Kot argues that these playwrights are actively searching for answers to the existential and philosophical questions that they pose, and ask their audience to do the same. Obilgingly, Kot does just this, and includes an analysis of ""Cherry Orchard"" the last and greatest play by the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810116542
SKU
V9780810116542
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