The contemporary American monologue : performance and politics /
Talk-show confessions, online rants, stand-up routines, inspirational speeches, banal reflections and calls to arms. We live in an age of solo voices demanding to be heard. In The Contemporary American Monologue, Eddie Paterson looks at the pioneering work of US artists Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderso...
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2015.
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| Series: | Methuen drama engage.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction Chapter 1: Monologue in Drama Chapter 2: Monologue in the US Chapter 3: Confessional monologue: Spalding Gray Chapter 4: Punk monologue: Laurie Anderson Chapter 5: Rights monologue: Anna Deavere Smith Chapter 6: Radical monologue: Karen Finley Chapter 7: Future monologues Addendum: 'I didn't fall asleep' an interview with Karen Finley Endnotes Index.