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Title: New messengers : short narratives in plays by Michael Frayn, Tom Stoppard and August Wilson
Edition
Vyd. 1.
Place of publication
Brno
Publisher
Masarykova univerzita
Year of publication
2013
Extent
138 s.
Series
- Spisy Masarykovy univerzity v Brně, Filozofická fakulta = Opera Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis, Facultas philosophica, ISSN 1211-3034; 418
ISBN
9788021063396
Stable URL (handle): https://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/129051
Language
English
Link to MU library catalogue: 879971
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Description
- The "New messenger" as a specific type of dramatic character, a follower of the conventional "messenger" whose presence in traditional drama serves several purposes, which the new messenger also fulfils. What makes it different is the fact that it is not an independent character, but the role it has is assumed by major characters in contemporary mainstream drama, such as journalists and reporters, politicians and their assistants, scientists and teachers, detectives and police officers, historical characters, philosophers and literary scholars, etc. The publication provides examples of the use of this type in a series of case studies of plays by two British playwrights Michael Frayn and Tom Stoppard, and an African-American playwright August Wilson.
- Noví poslové: krátké příběhy v divadelních hrách Michaela Frayna, Toma Stopparda a Augusta Wilsona Publikace představuje specifický typ dramatické postavy, pojmenovaný "nový posel", kterého lze chápat jako následovníka konvenčního typu postavy známé z tradičních dramat nejčastěji jako "posel". Přítomnost posla v tradičním dramatu má určité funkce, které plní i nový posel. Toho však odlišuje fakt, že se nejedná o samostatnou postavu, ale jeho roli v současném anglicky psaném mainstreamovém dramatu přejímá některá z hlavních postav. Mezi takové postavy patří především rozliční novináři či reportéři, politici či jejich asistenti, vědci či učitelé, detektivové či policisté, historické postavy, filozofové a literární vědci atd. Publikace v konkrétních případech analyzuje dramata dvou britských dramatiků, Michaela Frayna a Toma Stopparda, a afroamerického dramatika Augusta Wilsona.
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- This book is published as part of the research project Czech Structuralist Thought on Theatre: Context and Potency (Český divadelní strukturalismus: souvislosti a potenciál; 2011-2015), which is financed with funds from GAČR (the Czech Grant Agency), No. P409/11/1082.
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Masarykova univerzita. Filozofická fakulta
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open access
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| 1 | | Introduction | 9–14 Kačer, Tomáš |
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| 2 | | Why mainstream | 15–18 Kačer, Tomáš |
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| 3 | | The old messenger | 19–28 Kačer, Tomáš |
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| 4 | | The poetic tradition | 29–35 Kačer, Tomáš |
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| 5 | | The Prague School theory of theatre and drama | 37–44 Kačer, Tomáš |
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| 6 | | Morphology and the theory of actants | 45–50 Kačer, Tomáš |
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| 7 | | Brecht's heritage | 51–58 Kačer, Tomáš |
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| 8 | | Reportage | 59–63 Kačer, Tomáš |
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| 9 | | Introducing new messengers | 65–69 Kačer, Tomáš |
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| 10 | | New messengers on the stage | 71–72 Kačer, Tomáš |
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| 11 | | Pushing the action forward | 73–83 Kačer, Tomáš |
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| 12 | | Interpreting for others | 85–109 Kačer, Tomáš |
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| 13 | | Informing (about) the actual world | 111–124 Kačer, Tomáš |
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| 14 | | The new messenger's applications: a conclusion | 125–128 Kačer, Tomáš |
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| 15 | | Epilogue | 129–130 Kačer, Tomáš |
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| Works cited | 131–136 Kačer, Tomáš |
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| Index | 137–138 Kačer, Tomáš |