In The Art and Politics of Edward Bond, Lou Lappin examines how the treatment of artists and artistic experience in the plays of Edward Bond reveals the need for rationality that is not fulfilled in the social order. Bond's attitude towards experience rejects a submissive acceptance of events and disregards conventional dramaturgy based on illusion and psychologically convincing characters. Instead, he explores the dynamic between individual motives and social conditions. Bond's reinvention of characters central to the ...
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In The Art and Politics of Edward Bond, Lou Lappin examines how the treatment of artists and artistic experience in the plays of Edward Bond reveals the need for rationality that is not fulfilled in the social order. Bond's attitude towards experience rejects a submissive acceptance of events and disregards conventional dramaturgy based on illusion and psychologically convincing characters. Instead, he explores the dynamic between individual motives and social conditions. Bond's reinvention of characters central to the modern imagination provides the playwright with a way to reveal the crises of the past that inform our current dilemmas. Through their fates, Bond's characters exhort us to recover a sense of destiny in our lives and to implement change in an order which places the individual at odds with the structure of society.
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Publisher:
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Published:
1987
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17963861463
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Seller's Description:
Volume 50. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 400grams, ISBN: 0820404551.
