Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical EssaysSandor Goodhart Routledge, 28 oct. 2013 - 304 pagini Stephen Sondheim is arguably the most important writer for the American musical stage today, the equivalent in his field of Miller, Albee, O'Neill, and Williams. Yet he has rarely been treated seriously within the academy. Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays is an attempt to remedy that situation. Bringing together scholars and critics from a wide variety of literary and theoretical perspectives, this book undertakes to examine all of Sondheim's major productions and themes. |
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Pagina 17
... characters in Huts Clos ( No Exit ) say " L'enfers , c'est les Autres " ( " hell is other people " ) , or per- haps of the postmodernist commonplace in the late 1960s that sometimes hell is attaining the object of your desire.25 But ...
... characters in Huts Clos ( No Exit ) say " L'enfers , c'est les Autres " ( " hell is other people " ) , or per- haps of the postmodernist commonplace in the late 1960s that sometimes hell is attaining the object of your desire.25 But ...
Pagina 19
... characters , like the candles atop Robert's birthday cake , may continue to burn . To live within any one of those plots exclusively , as to live within any one of the five mar- riages Robert observes , is to extinguish all the rest ...
... characters , like the candles atop Robert's birthday cake , may continue to burn . To live within any one of those plots exclusively , as to live within any one of the five mar- riages Robert observes , is to extinguish all the rest ...
Pagina 20
... character whose name is Dmitri Weismann but who is clearly a stand - in for an individ- ual like Flo Ziegfeld . The ... characters : Ben , Phyllis , Buddy , and Sally . Benjamin Stone is a well - to - do former United Nations diplomat ...
... character whose name is Dmitri Weismann but who is clearly a stand - in for an individ- ual like Flo Ziegfeld . The ... characters : Ben , Phyllis , Buddy , and Sally . Benjamin Stone is a well - to - do former United Nations diplomat ...
Pagina 22
... characters begins simultaneously and noisily denouncing their younger selves 1 who have now become visceral presences as well ) , accusing them of having destroyed their lives , and vowing to get even with them for it , all the while ...
... characters begins simultaneously and noisily denouncing their younger selves 1 who have now become visceral presences as well ) , accusing them of having destroyed their lives , and vowing to get even with them for it , all the while ...
Pagina 24
... characters would seem complete . What has happened ? On the one hand , these musical numbers have ex- pressed for these characters their deepest desires . In exaggerated and highly stylized form , they have staged the personas and ...
... characters would seem complete . What has happened ? On the one hand , these musical numbers have ex- pressed for these characters their deepest desires . In exaggerated and highly stylized form , they have staged the personas and ...
Cuprins
The Sung and the Said Literary Value in | 37 |
Maternity Madness and Art in the Theater | 61 |
Every Day a Little Death Sondheims | 77 |
The Funeral of Follies Stephen Sondheim | 89 |
Difference and Sameness Tarchettis Fosca | 101 |
It Takes Two A Duet on Duets in Follies | 121 |
Enchantment on the Manicured Lawns | 133 |
Arresting Development Law Love and | 171 |
Visions and Revisions The Postmodern Challenge | 187 |
Happily Ever NEVER The Antithetical | 209 |
Works Cited | 259 |
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Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays Sandor Goodhart Previzualizare limitată - 2000 |
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