Women, the First World War and the Dramatic Imagination: International Essays (1914-1999)Claire M. Tylee E. Mellen Press, 2000 - 283 pages This collection of essays demonstrates the continuing effects of World War I on the cultural memories of the disparate nations involved, including Ireland, Germany, Canada and Scotland at the end of the 20th century. It draws on various critical approaches to analyze dramas that range globally from France, Germany and Australia as well as the UK and the USA. |
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... war - plays by women a wide range of strategies to catalyze listeners ' responses to the issues they raise . Some rely on the illusion of a " fourth wall " to invite the audience's investment in the action . Some , like Gertrude Stein ...
... war - plays by women a wide range of strategies to catalyze listeners ' responses to the issues they raise . Some rely on the illusion of a " fourth wall " to invite the audience's investment in the action . Some , like Gertrude Stein ...
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... War plays by women . Valerie Smith has usefully talked of the need to " hold in balance the three variables of race , gender and class and to destabilize the centrality of any one " of Alice Dunbar Nelson's Mine Eyes Have Seen and Black ...
... War plays by women . Valerie Smith has usefully talked of the need to " hold in balance the three variables of race , gender and class and to destabilize the centrality of any one " of Alice Dunbar Nelson's Mine Eyes Have Seen and Black ...
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... War Plays by Women : an International Anthology , London : Routledge . Walker , Alice ( 1984 ) In Search of our Mothers ' Gardens : Womanist Prose . London : Women's Press . Women's Volunteer Reserve Magazine . Vol . 1 , No. 7 ( July ...
... War Plays by Women : an International Anthology , London : Routledge . Walker , Alice ( 1984 ) In Search of our Mothers ' Gardens : Womanist Prose . London : Women's Press . Women's Volunteer Reserve Magazine . Vol . 1 , No. 7 ( July ...
Contents
Introduction Claire M Tylee | 1 |
a play of today for tomorrow 1915 | 23 |
Gertrude Steins | 39 |
Copyright | |
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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War Vincent Sherry No preview available - 2005 |