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New Deal Theater : The Vernacular Tradition in American Political Theater /

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New Deal Theater recovers a much ignored model of political theater for cultural criticism.While considered to be less radical in its aesthetics and politics than its celebrated Weimar and Soviet cousins, it nonetheless proved to be highly effective in asserting cultural critique. In this regard it...

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Main Author:	Saal, Ilka (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Subjects:	Cultural and Media Studies. North American Literature. Political Science. Theatre History. Theatre and Performance Studies. Twentieth-Century Literature. Culture > Study and teaching. Literature, Modern > 20th century. Political science. Theater > History. Theater. America > Literatures. Electronic books.
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