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Bad pennies and dead presidents : money in modern American drama / by Jon Dietrick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dietrick, Jon.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- American drama.
- Money in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (151 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study closely analyzes key works by five pivotal playwrights: Sidney Kingsley, Arthur Miller, David Mamet, August Wilson, and Suzan-Lori Parks, in a comparison of the treatment of money in a range of American plays from the Great Depression to the early twenty-first century. Money emerges as a site of anxieties regarding the relation of signs to the real: a "monstrous" substance that seems to breed itself from itself; a dangerous abstraction that claims for itself a "hard" reality, tran...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-4284-2
- OCLC:
- 820123403
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