Plays by Women About Women Play Writers [electronic resource] : How Women Create Myths About Themselves

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Uçar-Özbirinci, Pürnur.

Uçar-Özbirinci, Pürnur, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archetype (Psychology) in literature.

Drama--Women authors--History and criticism.

Feminism and literature.

Group identity in literature.

Myth in literature.

Women--Identity.

Women authors in literature.

Women in literature.

Drama.

Women authors in literature--Identity.

Women.

Local Subjects:

Archetype (Psychology) in literature.

Drama--Women authors--History and criticism.

Feminism and literature.

Group identity in literature.

Myth in literature.

Women--Identity.

Women authors in literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study explores the process of mythmaking in plays written by women. By writing the lives of female writers and rewriting the literary characters, which have been created by male writers, women playwrights assume the role of a mythmaker. This study evaluates the constantly developing process of women's mythmaking/mythbreaking in Liz Lochhead's Blood and Ice, Rose Leiman Goldemberg's Letters Home, Bilgesu Erenus' Halide, Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Love of the Nightingale, Bryony Lavery's Ophelia, and Zeynep Avci's Gilgamesh.

Contents:

PLAYS BY WOMEN ABOUT WOMEN PLAY WRITERS: How Women Create Myths About Themselves; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Mythmaking: Definitions and Meanings; Chapter 2 - Plays by Women on Female Writers; Chapter 3 - Plays by Women on Literary Characters; Chapter 4 - Conclusion; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-7734-4385-1

OCLC:

850162165