The Making Of The Twentieth-Century Novel: Lawrence, Joyce, Faulkner And Beyond

By John Orr, Orr, John, John , 1943- Orr

John Orr. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 212-215.

Tragicomedy And Contemporary Culture: Play And Performance From Beckett To Shepard

By John Orr, Orr, John, John Orr (Auth.)

This study examines the historical relationship between tragicomedy in the modernist theatre and the performative culture of Western consumer societies. While discussing a wide range of playwrights...

Tragic Realism And Modern Society

By John Orr, Orr, John

A critical study which discusses passion and community as the central structures of feeling in tragic realism, tracing their origins in Stendhal, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and explaining their contemp...

Making Of The Twentieth-Century Novel

By John Orr, Orr, John

Tragicomedy And Contemporary Culture: Play And Performance From Beckett To Shepard

By John Orr, Orr, John, John Orr (Auth.)

This study examines the historical relationship between tragicomedy in the modernist theatre and the performative culture of Western consumer societies. While discussing a wide range of playwrights...

Tragic Drama And Modern Society: Studies In The Social And Literary Theory Of Drama From 1870 To The Present

By John Orr, Orr, John

Part I. The Achievement Of Henrik Ibsen -- Part Ii. Directions From Ibsen: Russia And Germany -- Part Iii. The Irish Renaissance -- Part Iv. American Tragedy And The American Dream -- Postscript. T...

Tragicomedy And Contemporary Culture: Play And Performance From Beckett To Shepard

By John Orr, Orr, John

A perceptive study of the relationship between contemporary play writing and the society that gives rise to it. -- Amazon.com

Unitarianism In The Present Time

By John Orr

Cinema And Fiction

By John Orr, Colin Nicholson, John Orr And Colin Nicholson

Examines the successes and failures of film adaptations of well known novels since 1950. As a guide to teachers of the subject, most essays contain textual readings of book, film or both, while the...

Post-War Cinema And Modernity : A Film Reader

By John Orr, Olga Taxidou