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Although often dismissed as a minor offshoot of the better-known German movement, expressionism on the American stage represents a critical phase in the development of American dramatic modernism. Situating expressionism within the context of early twentieth century American culture, Walker demonstrates how playwrights who wrote in this mode were responding both to new communications technologies and to the perceived threat they posed to the embodied act of meaning. At a time when mute bodies gesticulated on the silver screen, ghostly voices emanated from tin horns, and inked words stamped out the personality of the hand that composed them, expressionist playwrights began to represent these new cultural experiences by disarticulating the theatrical languages of bodies, voices, and words. In doing so, they not only innovated a new dramatic form, but redefined playwriting from a theatrical craft to a literary art form, heralding the birth of American dramatic modernism.

Author Biography:

Julia Walker is Assistant Professor of English and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Release date NZ
June 30th, 2005
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  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
12 Halftones, unspecified
Pages
314
Dimensions
152x229x22
ISBN-13
9780521847476
Product ID
2088056

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