Pygmalion's Wordplay : The Postmodern Shaw
Overview
There's good news for everyone who loves Bernard Shaw: because his works are going out of copyright, we can expect to see many more productions of his wonderful plays - and to be surprised again by his insight, humor, and relevance.
Pygmalion (more familiar in its musical form - My Fair Lady) is probably his most popular play - and his most surprising one.
In Pygmalion's Wordplay, I argue that long before the postmodernists came along, Shaw intuited their ideas about language and explored them in Pygmalion.
This is a book for anyone who loves Shaw and is curious about postmodern ideas about language. In Shaw's hands, Eliza Doolittle's story becomes an enduring work of literature - and the ideas of Derrida, Saussure, and other postmodernists become provocative and accessible.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781982055981
- ISBN-10: 1982055987
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: December 2018
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.51 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.73 pounds
- Page Count: 244
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