Jerome David Salinger

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(1919-)

ü -the author of the only novel and a number of short stories.

Works:

“The Catcher in the Rye”

Short stories

His work

ü portrays kind and good normal young people who look strange and abnormal in the unnatural surroundings of modem civilization. His character is a non-conformist, a truth-seeker who opposes society;

ü he defines many things in the society as “phoney”(липа)- this is the key word that speaks about his attitude to the world.

Style:

ü used an original form of narration (is told by a teen-ager in funny schoolboy slang);

ü a humorous and sympathetic account of the adventures of a confused teenage-boy in the adult world.

American Drama

Brief History

1. Why is drama a late development in American culture?

ü puritan dislike for theater

ü “Too occupied with the business of surviving”

ü European influences

2. Birth of drama in the course of Independence War

3. Concept of drama as:

a) moral education – melodrama, love story, soap opera

b) entertainment – comedy, musicle, vaundeville; minstrel show, black and white.

4. Eugene O`Neill (1888- 1953) – founder of modern American Drama. Little theaters movement. Beginning - 1918 production of his one- actor Bound East for Cardiff by Provincetown Players.

5. Drama in the 1920s. Conflict: nature vs. civilization.

6. Drama in the 1930s. The “Red Decade”. Conflict: social.

7. Post- war drama. Broadway. Off- Broadway. Off-Off Broadway.

ü Arthur Miller (b. 1915)

ü Tennessee Williams (1911- 1983).

ü -Edward Albee (b.1928).

8. Contemporary drama.

ü Decentralization

ü Plurality of perspectives

ü Multiculturalism (race; gender; regional; ethnic and sexual minorities)

Sam Shepard Marsha Norman Amiri Baraka

David Mamet Bett Hanley August Wilson