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"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 Anderson, Anna Deavere Smith and Karen Finley, and the development of solo performance in the US as a method of cultural and political critique. Ironic confession, post-punk poetry, investigations of race and violence, and subversive polemic, this book reveals the link between the rise of radical monologue in the late 20th century and history of speechmaking, politics, civil rights, individual freedom and the American Dream in the United States. It shows how US artists are speaking back to the cultural, political and economic forces that shape the world. Eddie Patterson traces the importance of the monologue in Shakespeare, Brecht, Beckett, Chekov, Pinter, O'Neill and Williams, before offering a comprehensive analysis of several of the most influential and innovative American practitioners of monologue performance. The volume also contains an interview with artist Karen Finley, on the trajectory of her recent works. The Contemporary American Monologue constitutes the first book-length account of US monologists that links the tradition of oratory and speechmaking in the colony to the appearance of solo performance as a distinctly American phenomenon"--
American drama --- American drama. --- Monolog. --- Monologues. --- Oratory --- Oratory. --- PERFORMING ARTS --- History and criticism --- History --- Theater --- General. --- History & Criticism. --- 2000-2099. --- USA. --- United States. --- Recitations --- American literature --- Argumentation --- Oratory, Primitive --- Speaking --- Language and languages --- Rhetoric --- Speeches, addresses, etc. --- Debates and debating --- Elocution --- Eloquence --- Lectures and lecturing --- Persuasion (Rhetoric) --- Public speaking --- History and criticism. --- Theatre studies --- Monologues (Drama).
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"'redactor' uses found texts from the everyday - emails, memos, notes, lyrics, text messages, tweets, webfeeds - as poetic material. Drawing on techniques from the visual arts and radical writing such as the ready-made, the cut-up and the concrete poem, Eddie Paterson reflects upon the ways in which the historical legacy of censorship intersects with contemporary surveillance technologies. In an era in which former US President George W. Bush's favourite writing tool was the black sharpie marker, 'redactor' is a language trash-compactor where the banal and the brilliant meet."--back cover.
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