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"A pioneer of American modern drama and founding member of the Provincetown Players, Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) wrote plays of a kind that Robert Brustein defines as a "drama of revolt," an expression of the dramatists' discontent with the prevailing social, political, and artistic order. Her works display her determination to put an end to the alienating norms that, in her eyes and those of her bohemian peers, were stifling American society. This determination both to denounce infringements on individual rights and to reform American life through the theatre shapes the political dimension of her drama of revolt. Analyzing plays from the early Trifles (1916) through Springs Eternal (1943) and the undated, incomplete Wings, author Emeline Jouve illustrates the way that Glaspell's dramas addressed issues of sexism, the impact of World War I on American values, and the relationship between individuals and their communities, among other concerns. Jouve argues that Glaspell turns the playhouse into a courthouse, putting the hypocrisy of American democracy on trial. In staging rebels fighting for their rights in fictional worlds that reflect her audience's extradiegetic reality, she explores the strategies available to individuals to free themselves from oppression. Her works envisage a better future for both her fictive insurgents and her spectators, whom she encourages to consider which modes of revolt are appropriate and effective for improving the society they live in. The playwright defines social reform in terms of collaboration, which she views as an alternative to the dominant, alienating social and political structures. Not simply accusing but proposing solutions in her plays, she wrote dramas that enacted a positive revolt. A must for students of Glaspell and her contemporaries, as well as scholars of American theatre and literature of the first half of the twentieth century"...

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Qu'elle soit appelée meurtrière, assassine ou tueuse, la femme qui commet un homicide élude les catégories usuelles : elle dérange l'ordre social, bouleverse les rapports de forces symboliques et inquiète les dispositifs judiciaires. Cet ouvrage collectif bilingue (français et anglais) interroge la manière dont l'écriture ou la réécriture du meurtre au féminin contribue à façonner et à problématiser la mémoire collective de ces affaires criminelles qui font figure d'exception.

Women murderers in literature --- Congresses --- French fiction --- History and criticism --- English fiction --- Murder in literature

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« Interroger l’entrelacement du théâtre et du patrimoine permet d’envisager l’œuvre du spectacle vivant, art du présent, dans la construction collective d’un rapport au passé et permet de révéler une histoire des sensibilités. » Le couvent des Carmes, à l’abandon jusque dans les années 1960, a connu une nouvelle vie grâce au théâtre. Site historique converti en scène du Festival d’Avignon, c’est aussi dans ses vestiges qu’est né le Festival OFF. Les créateurs et spectateurs en ont fait un espace gagné par des conflits de mémoire. Il a pu influencer les mises en scène par sa disposition particulière mais également par sa symbolique historique et religieuse, tout en interrogeant les relations entre théâtre et patrimoine. Illustré par un des photographes emblématiques du Festival, Christophe Raynaud de Lage, cet ouvrage réunit des chercheurs venus d’horizons disciplinaires variés, allant de l’histoire à la littérature en passant par les études théâtrales.

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