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Группа авторов. Finance, Terror, and Science on Stage
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Current Debates and British Drama since 2000
Bibliography
I. Politics. Still/Again ‘Political’? New Approaches to Questioning Power in Mike Bartlett’s 13 (2011)
1. Austerity, Protest, and Political Discourse in the Second Decade of the 21st Century
2. 13 as a Response to the Social and Political Context
3. 13 as a Large-scale (and more Implicit) ‘Absurdist Dystopia’
4. The Play’s Central Conflict about Political Power
5. Conclusion
Bibliography. Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Immigration as Farce: Richard Bean’s England People Very Nice (2009)
1. Immigration in Contemporary British Discourse
2. Immigration on the British Stage
3. Richard Bean’s England People Very Nice
4. Farce
5. Comic Techniques
6. Religion
7. Conclusion
Bibliography. Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Expel, Exploit, Exfoliate: Taking on Terror in Mark Ravenhill’s Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat (2007)
1. Stages and Discourses of Terrorism
2. Terror/ism in Mark Ravenhill’s Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat
3. Condensation and Displacement of Terror
4. Accumulating Fear and Empathy
5. Conclusion
Bibliography. Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
II. Finance and Austerity. Surviving Boom and Bust: Finance, Responsibility, and the State of the World in Nicholas Pierpan’s You Can Still Make a Killing (2012)
1. Contemporary British Literature, Money, and the Financial Crisis
2. Nicholas Pierpan’s Plays and the Financial System
3. Competition and Power Play
4. The Process of Financialisation
5. Ethics and Responsibility
6. Conclusion
Bibliography. Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Homo Homini Rhino Est: April De Angelis’ Wild East (2005) and the Deconstruction of Responsibility in Corporate Culture
1. Contemporary Theatre, Corporate Responsibility, and the Question of Ethical Reflection
2. Introducing April De Angelis
3. Thomas Hobbes’ “Perpetual State of War” as a template for Wild East
4. Wild East – Criticising Contemporary Corporate Culture
5. Conclusion
Bibliography. Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
The ‘Underclass’ Talks Back: Poverty and Homelessness in Nadia Fall’s Home (2013)
1. Contemporary Controversies about Poverty and Welfare
2. Nadia Fall’s Home and the Verbatim Tradition
3. Beyond ‘Poverty Porn’
4. Conclusion
Bibliography. Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
III. Science and Technology. Data Streams, Post-Human Lives, and (Virtual) Realities: Jules Horne’s Gorgeous Avatar (2006)
1. The Information Age in British Drama and Theatre
2. Jules Horne as a Writer of the Information Age and ‘Information Age Plays’
3. Intertwining and Concurring Realities in Gorgeous Avatar
4. Of Humans and Their Data and Humans as Their Data in Post-Human Lives
5. Data Streams as Defining Shapers of (Virtual) Realities and Post-Human Lives after the Digital Turn
6. Conclusion
Bibliography. Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
A Critical Review of Science: Caryl Churchill’s A Number (2002), Individual Identity, and Human Cloning
1. Science Revisited
2. Stating the Problem
3. The Context of Cloning
4. Looking for Solutions
5. Conclusion
Bibliography. Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
“No View from Nowhere”: Science, Freedom, and Determinism in Nick Payne’s Incognito (2014)
1. Literature and Science
2. Participants and Observers
3. Selfhood, Consciousness, and Freedom
4. Networks and Knowledge
5. Conclusion
Bibliography. Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
IV. Cultural Identity. Re-Visiting the British Empire: Neo-Victorian Perspectives on Multicultural Britain in Tanika Gupta’s The Empress (2013)
1. Remembering the British Empire in the 21st Century – Debates, Contexts, Implications
2. Introducing Tanika Gupta
3. The Empress as a Neo-Victorian Empire Play
4. Re-Interpreting the Nation’s Imperial Past
5. Past and Present Discriminations
6. A Diverse Nation
7. Conclusion
Bibliography. Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Defusing Stereotypes with Comedy: Conflicting Afro-Caribbean British Identities and Urban Street Culture in Bola Agbaje’s Gone Too Far! (2007)
1. Black British Identities and Urban Estates
2. Characters and Cultural Identities in Bola Agbaje’s Gone Too Far!
3. Language
4. Clothes and Hairstyles as Cultural Markers
5. Setting and Genre
6. Conclusion
Bibliography. Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Apple Stores and Jihadi Brides: Hassan Abdulrazzak’s Love, Bombs and Apples (2016) and the Role of Religion in Contemporary British Society
1. Religion, Politics, and the Media
2. Stand-Up Strategies and the Appeal of the Absurd
3. Holy Spaces
4. Sexual Encounters as Acts of Faith
5. Religious Art and the Power of Labels
6. Religion as Social Unifier
7. Conclusion
Bibliography. Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Fußnoten. Introduction: Current Debates and British Drama since 2000
2. 13 as a Response to the Social and Political Context
3. 13 as a Large-scale (and more Implicit) ‘Absurdist Dystopia’
4. The Play’s Central Conflict about Political Power
5. Conclusion
1. Immigration in Contemporary British Discourse
2. Immigration on the British Stage
3. Richard Bean’s England People Very Nice
1. Stages and Discourses of Terrorism
2. Terror/ism in Mark Ravenhill’s Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat
1. Contemporary British Literature, Money, and the Financial Crisis
2. Nicholas Pierpan’s Plays and the Financial System
3. Competition and Power Play
4. The Process of Financialisation
5. Ethics and Responsibility
1. Contemporary Theatre, Corporate Responsibility, and the Question of Ethical Reflection
2. Introducing April De Angelis
4. Wild East – Criticising Contemporary Corporate Culture
5. Conclusion
1. Contemporary Controversies about Poverty and Welfare
2. Nadia Fall’s Home and the Verbatim Tradition
3. Beyond ‘Poverty Porn’
3. Intertwining and Concurring Realities in Gorgeous Avatar
1. Science Revisited
3. The Context of Cloning
4. Looking for Solutions
5. Conclusion
2. Participants and Observers
3. Selfhood, Consciousness, and Freedom
4. Networks and Knowledge
5. Conclusion
1. Remembering the British Empire in the 21st Century – Debates, Contexts, Implications
2. Introducing Tanika Gupta
3. The Empress as a Neo-Victorian Empire Play
4. Re-Interpreting the Nation’s Imperial Past
5. Past and Present Discriminations
6. A Diverse Nation
1. Black British Identities and Urban Estates
2. Characters and Cultural Identities in Bola Agbaje’s Gone Too Far!
5. Setting and Genre
1. Religion, Politics, and the Media
2. Stand-Up Strategies and the Appeal of the Absurd
4. Sexual Encounters as Acts of Faith
