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Camp, the canon, and a performative burlesque: Paula Vogel's plays as literary and cultural revision

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Camp, the canon, and a performative burlesque: Paula Vogel's plays as literary and cultural revision/
Author:	Mansbridge, Joanna.
Published:	PQDD :
Description:	442 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-08, Section: A, page: 2705.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-08A.
Subject:	Theater. -
Online resource:	http://www2.lib.ndhu.edu.tw/pdf_buy/3412739.pdf限東華大學校園網域內使用
ISBN:	9781124120607

Camp, the canon, and a performative burlesque: Paula Vogel's plays as literary and cultural revision
Mansbridge, Joanna.

Camp, the canon, and a performative burlesque: Paula Vogel's plays as literary and cultural revision[electronic resource]. - PQDD - 442 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-08, Section: A, page: 2705.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 2010.

This dissertation examines the ways in which Paula Vogel's plays respond to and rewrite canonical texts, while simultaneously addressing contemporary concerns, such as domestic violence, pornography, pedophilia, and AIDS. Vogel's dialectical writing strategy encourages the audience to look at these cultural issues from a defamiliarized, historical perspective, so that they are seen less as sensationalized "issues" and more as historical questions that have accumulated meanings over time. In addition, since many of her plays rewrite texts by such canonical giants as Shakespeare, Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, and David Mamet, to engage with Vogel is to engage with the canon of theatre and literary studies, as it is restaged in a different historical context and recast with women at the center of the action. Responding to a predominantly male canon, Vogel shifts the focus away from an often universalized, truth-seeking male protagonist, placing women center stage, not as valorized heroines, but as conflicted characters who both enact and resist the discourses that constitute their bodies and identities. Thus, the overarching goal of this study is to examine the ways in which the dialectical structure and dramaturgical strategies of Vogel's plays offer another way of looking at the literary canon, social history, and contemporary American culture.

ISBN: 9781124120607Subjects--Topical Terms:

522973
Theater.

Camp, the canon, and a performative burlesque: Paula Vogel's plays as literary and cultural revision
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