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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
Buchreihe	:	Artists and Issues in the Theatre (Bd. 11)
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	25. 02. 2000
Seiten	:	121
Einband	:	Kartoniert
Höhe	:	230 mm
Breite	:	160 mm
Gewicht	:	120 g
ISBN	:	9780820444338
Sprache	:	Englisch

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Autorinformation

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The Author: Michael Taav is a playwright, screenwriter, and director whose films have won prizes at the Berlin, Melbourne, Chicago, and Houston International Film Festivals. He has a Ph.D in Theatre and Dramatic Literature from the City University of New York Graduate Center and currently teaches at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Produktinformation

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As an actor, screenwriter, director, short story writer, and, most significantly, a playwright, Sam Shepard has long been an important figure on the American cultural landscape. A Body Across the Map focuses on the character conflict central to Shepard’s most significant plays; that between fathers and sons. Beginning with The Rock Garden and concluding with A Lie of the Mind, this analysis shows how Shepard’s worldview has evolved over a 20-year span. A long-standing pessimist who saw Oedipal revenge as a necessity, and genetic determination as inescapable, Shepard ultimately disavows these dark worldviews in favor of one where gentleness, spiritual generosity, cooperation, and the acceptance of long-denied truths prevail over rage, self-interest, and biological predestination.

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