Staging Modern American Life [electronic resource] : Popular Culture in the Experimental Theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos /
Fahy, T.author.
Thomas Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in the theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theatre history and literary studies, despite offering a hybrid theatre that integrates popular with formal, and mainstream with experimental.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- "I cannot live without a macaroon!" : food, hunger, and the dangers of modern American culture in Edna St. Vincent Millay's Aria da Capo and other plays -- "Damn everything but the circus!" : the ambiguous place of popular culture in E. E. Cummings' Him -- Planes, trains, and automobiles : technology and the suburban nightmare in the plays of John Dos Passos --  Conclusion.
Thomas Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in the theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theatre history and literary studies, despite offering a hybrid theatre that integrates popular with formal, and mainstream with experimental.
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970
Cultural studies.
Theater.
Literature.
Theater—History.
Performing arts.
Cultural Studies.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Literature, general.
Theatre History.
Performing Arts.