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...
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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 The theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theatre history and literary scholarship, offer a hybrid theatre that integrates the popular with the formal, the mainstream with the experimental. Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in their works and offers new readings with an eye to American cultural studies
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "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; 2. "Damn Everything But the Circus!": The Ambiguous Place of Popular Culture in E. E. Cummings' Him; 3. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Technology and the Suburban Nightmare in the Plays of John Dos Passos; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index