Susan Carlson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3734954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Carlson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Carlson |
| SIGNATURE | CARLSON S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cannibalizing and Carnivalizing
Women and Comedy
The first comprehensive study of its kind, this book explores the contradictory connections between women and dramatic comedy. Women and Comedy shows how a genre that has been used historically to restrict women's behavior is being reconfigured to express women's triumphs. It thus redefines the assumptions with which both traditional comedy and contemporary women's plays are read and viewed. Challenging a critical consensus that has seen comedy a…
Issues of Identity, Nationality, and Performance
This paper explores some of the many factors which affect the way in which the critical response to a production is made manifest. Using the reception of Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Love of the Nightingale and Our Country's Good as case studies, Susan Carlson contrasts the enthusiastic response to the first production of the latter play at the Royal Court, where its supposed celebration of the redemptive effects of theatricality were widely accl…
Internationalizing the Sociology Curriculum
Radical Stages
Collaboration, Identity, and Cultural Difference
When Egyptian Farag Fouda was assassinated on the streets of Cairo in June of 1992, playwright Karim Alrawi found himself compelled to remember his fellow writer in print. Alrawi mourned the loss of a civil rights activist and a writer undeterred by the threats of Islamic fundamentalists. His accusations were bold: Despite a number of bruising clashes with Al-Azhar, Egypt's Islamic university, he [Fouda] continued attacking bogus scholarship and …
Women & Comedy
The Joke's on Us
The Joke's on Us
Women & Comedy
Issues of Identity, Nationality, and Performance
This paper explores some of the many factors which affect the way in which the critical response to a production is made manifest. Using the reception of Timberlake Wertenbaker's The Love of the Nightingale and Our Country's Good as case studies, Susan Carlson contrasts the enthusiastic response to the first production of the latter play at the Royal Court, where its supposed celebration of the redemptive effects of theatricality were widely accl…
Internationalizing the Sociology Curriculum
Radical Stages
Collaboration, Identity, and Cultural Difference
When Egyptian Farag Fouda was assassinated on the streets of Cairo in June of 1992, playwright Karim Alrawi found himself compelled to remember his fellow writer in print. Alrawi mourned the loss of a civil rights activist and a writer undeterred by the threats of Islamic fundamentalists. His accusations were bold: Despite a number of bruising clashes with Al-Azhar, Egypt's Islamic university, he [Fouda] continued attacking bogus scholarship and …
Women and Comedy
The first comprehensive study of its kind, this book explores the contradictory connections between women and dramatic comedy. Women and Comedy shows how a genre that has been used historically to restrict women's behavior is being reconfigured to express women's triumphs. It thus redefines the assumptions with which both traditional comedy and contemporary women's plays are read and viewed. Challenging a critical consensus that has seen comedy a…
Cannibalizing and Carnivalizing
Art (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (5 works) · Comedy (4 works) · Theater, Performance, and Music History (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Comics (2 works) · Drama (2 works)