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Love in Contemporary British Drama - Korbinian Stöckl

Love in Contemporary British Drama

Traditions and Transformations of a Cultural Emotion
Buch | Softcover
IX, 294 Seiten
2022
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-111123-0 (ISBN)
CHF 29,90 inkl. MwSt
The book series CDE Studies invites monographs (and collections) on issues in contemporary Anglophone dramatic literature and theatre performance. The book series is dedicated to the analysis and renegotiation of contemporary writers and plays and their historical, political, formal, theoretical and methodological contexts.
Despite the recent turn to affects and emotions in the humanities and despite the unceasing popularity of romantic and erotic love as a motif in fictional works of all genres, the subject has received surprisingly little attention in academic studies of contemporary drama. Love in Contemporary British Drama reflects the appeal of love as a topic and driving force in dramatic works with in-depth analyses of eight pivotal plays from the past three decades.Following an interdisciplinary and historical approach, the study collects and condenses theories of love from philosophy and sociology to derive persisting discourses and to examine their reoccurrence and transformation in contemporary plays. Special emphasis is put on narratives of love’s compensatory function and precariousness and on how modifications of these narratives epitomise the peculiarities of emotional life in the social and cultural context of the present.Based on the assumption that drama is especially inclined to draw on shared narratives for representations of love, the book demonstrates that love is both a window to remnants of the past in the present and a proper subject matter for drama in times in which the suitability of the dramatic form has been questioned.

Korbinian Stöckl, Augsburg University, Germany.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Contemporary Drama in English Studies ; 31
Verlagsort Berlin/Boston
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 230 mm
Gewicht 606 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Schlagworte British Drama • Contemporary Drama • English literature • Love
ISBN-10 3-11-111123-7 / 3111111237
ISBN-13 978-3-11-111123-0 / 9783111111230
Zustand Neuware
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