: David Mamet (1985)

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-55694-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 146 Seiten, Format (B × H): 204 mm x 136 mm, Gewicht: 260 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1985, C.W.E Bigsby examines the career and work of playwright David Mamet. Bigsby shows that Mamet is a fierce social critic, indicting an America corrupted at its core by myths of frontier individualism and competitive capitalism. Mamet has created plays whose bleak social vision and ironic metaphysics are redeemed, if at all, by the power of imagination. No American playwright before him has displayed the same sensitivity to language, detecting lyricism in the brutal incoherencies of every day speech and investing with meaning a contemporary aphasia. Few have offered dramatic metaphors of such startling and disturbing originality. Bigsby’s study is the first book to provide a thorough account of David Mamet’s life and career, as well as close analyses of individual plays.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bigsby, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor’s Preface; Acknowledgements; A note on the texts; 1. Beginnings 2. Story and anti-story 3. Sexual Perversity in Chicago, The Woods 4. American Buffalo 5. The Water Engine, A Life in the Theatre 6. The Culture of Narcissism: Edmond 7. Glengarry, Glen Ross 8. Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Bigsby, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts, is an award winning academic, novelist and biographer.