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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... understanding America at a certain moment of its history , we can probably do little better than turn to these stylized productions that for twenty years solved all our problems . In any event , it was a nurturing experience and I ...
... understanding America at a certain moment of its history , we can probably do little better than turn to these stylized productions that for twenty years solved all our problems . In any event , it was a nurturing experience and I ...
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... understanding Sondheim may be yet to come . If his work has been excluded by not talking about it , it may be even more thorougbly excluded by talking about it . Academic history is rife with examples of writers whose troublesome ...
... understanding Sondheim may be yet to come . If his work has been excluded by not talking about it , it may be even more thorougbly excluded by talking about it . Academic history is rife with examples of writers whose troublesome ...
Pagina 9
... understanding was maintained . The sacred trappings of such critical activity could certainly be removed , so much so in fact that the movement could be introduced in America ( as noted above ) ironically to counter raging ideological ...
... understanding was maintained . The sacred trappings of such critical activity could certainly be removed , so much so in fact that the movement could be introduced in America ( as noted above ) ironically to counter raging ideological ...
Pagina 11
... understanding of literature as commentary and commentary as witness . The great works of our literary tradition , I proposed , are in fact a form of commentary about that tradition , and by sequestering such commentary as " literature ...
... understanding of literature as commentary and commentary as witness . The great works of our literary tradition , I proposed , are in fact a form of commentary about that tradition , and by sequestering such commentary as " literature ...
Pagina 19
... understand that the entirety of the play's action may have taken place inside Robert's head — just before he en- tered the darkened room ( while standing center stage , listening ) , or just after ( perhaps while making a wish ) ...
... understand that the entirety of the play's action may have taken place inside Robert's head — just before he en- tered the darkened room ( while standing center stage , listening ) , or just after ( perhaps while making a wish ) ...
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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