"This study examines the means Glaspell employs to engage her characters in proxemical and verbal dialectics with the forces of place that turn them into victims of location. Of particular interest are her characters' attempts to escape the influence...
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"This study examines the means Glaspell employs to engage her characters in proxemical and verbal dialectics with the forces of place that turn them into victims of location. Of particular interest are her characters' attempts to escape the influence of territoriality and shape identities of their own"--Provided by publisher
Introduction -- Towards geopathology in Susan Glaspell's modern drama -- "American geomythologies revisited as part of dramatic geopathology" -- Geodichotomies in the configuration of dramatic geopathology -- The burden of the past in dramatic geopathology -- Imagery of death in dramatic geopathology -- Dramatic principles of departure -- Afterword.
