After Dickens reading, adaptation and performance
After Dickens is both a performative reading of Dickens the novelist and an exploration of the potential for adaptive performance of the novels themselves. John Glavin conducts a historical inquiry into Dickens's relationship to the theatre and theatricality of his own time, and uncovers a much...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
1999.
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Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 20. |
Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b42010561*spi |
Sumario: | After Dickens is both a performative reading of Dickens the novelist and an exploration of the potential for adaptive performance of the novels themselves. John Glavin conducts a historical inquiry into Dickens's relationship to the theatre and theatricality of his own time, and uncovers a much more ambivalent, often hostile, relationship than has hitherto been noticed. In this context, Dickens's novels can be seen as a form of counter-performance, one which would allow the author to perform without being seen or scrutinized. But Glavin also identifies a rich performative potential in Dickens's fiction, and describes new ways to stage that fiction in emotionally powerful, critically acute adaptations. The book as a whole, therefore, offers a reading of Dickens through an unusual alliance between literary criticism and theatrical performance. |
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Notas: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico (xiii, 226 p.) |
Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780511484810 |