| 书目名称 | Language and Metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion |
| 副标题 | Shavian Sisters |
| 编辑 | Jean Reynolds |
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| 概述 | Examines Bernard Shaw’s metadramatic strategies.Explores important postmodern language concepts in Major Barbara.Challenges widespread assumptions about identity and language formation |
| 丛书名称 | Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries |
| 图书封面 |  |
| 描述 | .This book focuses on two important topics in Shaw’s .Major Barbara. and .Pygmalion. that have received little attention from critics: language and metadrama. If we look beyond the social, political, and economic issues that Shaw explored in these two plays, we discover that the stories of the two “Shavian sisters”— Barbara Undershaft and Eliza Doolittle—are deeply concerned with performance and what Jacques Derrida calls “the problem of language.” Nearly every character in .Major Barbara. produces, directs, or acts in at least one miniature play. In .Pygmalion., Henry Higgins is Eliza’s acting coach and phonetics teacher, as well as the star of an impromptu, open-air phonetics show. The language content in these two plays is just as intriguing. Did Eliza Doolittle have to learn Standard English to become a complete human being? Should we worry about the bad grammar we hear at Barbara Undershaft’s Salvation Army shelter? Is English losing its precision and purity?Meanwhile, in the background, Shaw keeps reminding us that language and theatre are always present in our everyday lives—sometimes serving as stabilizing forces, and sometimes working to undo them.. |
| 出版日期 | Book 2022 |
| 关键词 | Bernard Shaw; Metadrama; Postmodernism; Pygmalion; Major Barbara; Eliza Doolittle; Shavian Sisters |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96071-1 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-96073-5 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-96071-1Series ISSN 2634-5811 Series E-ISSN 2634-582X |
| issn_series | 2634-5811 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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