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Can I read New Deal Theater : The Vernacular Tradition in American Political Theater on EtoBox?
New Deal Theater : The Vernacular Tradition in American Political Theater by Ilka Saal is a performing arts available to read on EtoBox.
What is New Deal Theater : The Vernacular Tradition in American Political Theater about?
New Deal Theater recovers a much ignored model of political theater for cultural criticism.While considered to be less radical in its aesthetics and politics than its celebrated Weimar and Soviet cousins, it nonetheless proved to be highly effective in asserting cultural critique. In this regard it offers a vital alternative to the dominant modernist paradigm developed in Europe. Rather than radicalizing content and form, New Deal theater insisted that the political had to be made commensurable
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- Author
- Ilka Saal
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781349538065
- Category
- performing arts
- Subjects
- History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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