Christopher Bigsby
Biographic Data
| ID | 3089203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Bigsby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Bigsby |
| SIGNATURE | BIGSBY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The White Critic in a Black World
506 African American Review 50.4 (Winter 2017): 506-512© 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press and Saint Louis University Bigsby_Bigsby 2/14/2018 12:05 PM Page 506 C. W. E. BIGSBY 507 Bigsby_Bigsby 2/14/2018 12:05 PM Page 507 508 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Bigsby_Bigsby 2/14/2018 12:05 PM Page 508 C. W. E. BIGSBY 509 Bigsby_Bigsby 2/14/2018 12:05 PM Page 509 510 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Bigsby_Bigsby 2/14/2018 12:05 PM Page 510 C. W. E. BIGSBY 511 Bigs…
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See Under: Shoah: imagining the Holocaust with David Grossman." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 15(2), pp. 333–334
A New Introduction to American Studies
A New Introduction to American Studies provides a coherent portrait of American history, literature, politics, culture and society, and also deals with some of the central themes and preoccupations of American life. It will provoke students into thinking about what it actually means to study a culture. Ideals such as the commitment to liberty, equality and material progress are fully examined and new light is shed on the sometimes contradictory w…
Bożena Shallcross. The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture
Journal Article Bożena Shallcross. The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture. Get access Bożena Shallcross. The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture.Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2011. Pp. 181. $29.95. Christopher Bigsby Christopher Bigsby University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue 4, October 2012, Page…
The Cambridge companion to modern American culture
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the cultural themes and intellectual issues that drive the dominant culture of the twentieth century. This companion explores the social, political and economic forces that have made America what it is today. It shows how these contexts impact upon twentieth-century American literature, cinema and art. An international team of contr…
The Cambridge History of American Theatre. Vol. 1
Journal Article The Cambridge History of American Theatre. Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1870. Ed. by Don B. Wilmeth and Christopher Bigsby. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi, 525 pp. $69.95, ISBN 0-521-47204-0.) Get access Kim Marra Kim Marra University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1772–1773, https://doi.…
Modern American Drama
A View from East Anglia
TEN YEARS AGO I WROTE AN ARTICLE FOR AMERICAN QUARTERLY DEPLORING the relative disregard of the American theatre, more especially in America. I itemized its neglect by scholarly journals, cultural histories and critical studies. I was scarcely the first to make this point. Year after year, in American Literary Scholarship, Walter Meserve had lamented the lack of attention paid to American drama. That Susan Harris should be echoing this in 1988 sh…
American Studies
A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama. Volume Two
A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama
A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama
Provinceton: the birth of twentieth-century American drama 2. Eugene O'Neill 3. The theatre guild and its playwrights 4. The group theatre and Clifford Odets 5. Left-wing theatre 6. The federal theatre and the living newspaper 7. Black drama 8. Thornton Wilder 9. Lillian Hellman Appendices Notes Bibliography Index
The Second Black Renaissance
Approaches to Popular Culture
The Divided Mind of James Baldwin
Lionel Trilling once observed that there are certain individuals who contain the “ yes ” and “ no ” of their culture, whose personal ambivalences become paradigmatic. This would seem to be an apt description of a man whose first novel was published twenty-five years ago, a man whose career has described a neat and telling parabola and whose contradictions go to the heart of an issue which dominated the political and cultural life of mid-century A…
Drama as Cultural Sign
way that is less true of other genres. Unlike the novel it speaks in the present tense, and the sense of shared experience which derives from this makes it a sensitive instrument for plotting changes in cultural pressure, for responding to changing ideological, social, and aesthetic moods. It is this characteristic which makes it so valuable for the cultural critic, as it quite literally dramatizes the tensions and displays the public and private…
Confrontation and Commitment
Confrontation and Commitment
Drama as Cultural Sign
way that is less true of other genres. Unlike the novel it speaks in the present tense, and the sense of shared experience which derives from this makes it a sensitive instrument for plotting changes in cultural pressure, for responding to changing ideological, social, and aesthetic moods. It is this characteristic which makes it so valuable for the cultural critic, as it quite literally dramatizes the tensions and displays the public and private…
The Divided Mind of James Baldwin
Lionel Trilling once observed that there are certain individuals who contain the “ yes ” and “ no ” of their culture, whose personal ambivalences become paradigmatic. This would seem to be an apt description of a man whose first novel was published twenty-five years ago, a man whose career has described a neat and telling parabola and whose contradictions go to the heart of an issue which dominated the political and cultural life of mid-century A…
Approaches to Popular Culture
The Second Black Renaissance
A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama
Provinceton: the birth of twentieth-century American drama 2. Eugene O'Neill 3. The theatre guild and its playwrights 4. The group theatre and Clifford Odets 5. Left-wing theatre 6. The federal theatre and the living newspaper 7. Black drama 8. Thornton Wilder 9. Lillian Hellman Appendices Notes Bibliography Index
A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama. Volume Two
A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama
American Studies
A View from East Anglia
TEN YEARS AGO I WROTE AN ARTICLE FOR AMERICAN QUARTERLY DEPLORING the relative disregard of the American theatre, more especially in America. I itemized its neglect by scholarly journals, cultural histories and critical studies. I was scarcely the first to make this point. Year after year, in American Literary Scholarship, Walter Meserve had lamented the lack of attention paid to American drama. That Susan Harris should be echoing this in 1988 sh…
Modern American Drama
The Cambridge History of American Theatre. Vol. 1
Journal Article The Cambridge History of American Theatre. Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1870. Ed. by Don B. Wilmeth and Christopher Bigsby. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi, 525 pp. $69.95, ISBN 0-521-47204-0.) Get access Kim Marra Kim Marra University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, March 2000, Pages 1772–1773, https://doi.…
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture
The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture offers a comprehensive, authoritative and accessible overview of the cultural themes and intellectual issues that drive the dominant culture of the twentieth century. This companion explores the social, political and economic forces that have made America what it is today. It shows how these contexts impact upon twentieth-century American literature, cinema and art. An international team of contr…
The Cambridge companion to modern American culture
Bożena Shallcross. The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture
Journal Article Bożena Shallcross. The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture. Get access Bożena Shallcross. The Holocaust Object in Polish and Polish-Jewish Culture.Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2011. Pp. 181. $29.95. Christopher Bigsby Christopher Bigsby University of East Anglia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue 4, October 2012, Page…
A New Introduction to American Studies
A New Introduction to American Studies provides a coherent portrait of American history, literature, politics, culture and society, and also deals with some of the central themes and preoccupations of American life. It will provoke students into thinking about what it actually means to study a culture. Ideals such as the commitment to liberty, equality and material progress are fully examined and new light is shed on the sometimes contradictory w…
See Under
See Under: Shoah: imagining the Holocaust with David Grossman." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 15(2), pp. 333–334
The White Critic in a Black World
506 African American Review 50.4 (Winter 2017): 506-512© 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press and Saint Louis University Bigsby_Bigsby 2/14/2018 12:05 PM Page 506 C. W. E. BIGSBY 507 Bigsby_Bigsby 2/14/2018 12:05 PM Page 507 508 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Bigsby_Bigsby 2/14/2018 12:05 PM Page 508 C. W. E. BIGSBY 509 Bigsby_Bigsby 2/14/2018 12:05 PM Page 509 510 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Bigsby_Bigsby 2/14/2018 12:05 PM Page 510 C. W. E. BIGSBY 511 Bigs…
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