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001444732 1001_ $$aReynolds, Jean,$$d1945-$$eauthor.
001444732 24510 $$aLanguage and metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion :$$bShavian sisters /$$cJean Reynolds.
001444732 264_1 $$aCham :$$bPalgrave Macmillan,$$c[2022]
001444732 264_4 $$c©2022
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001444732 4901_ $$aBernard Shaw and his contemporaries
001444732 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
001444732 5050_ $$aPart I Barbara and Eliza -- Chapter 1 Shavian Sisters -- Chapter 2 "Whats to Become of Me?" -- Chapter 3 The Power of Imagination -- Part II A Playwright at Work -- Chapter 4 Seeing Double -- Chapter 5 A Girl Becomes a Woman -- Chapter 6 The Undershaft Inheritance -- Part III The Problem of Language -- Chapter 7 "Why Cant the English?" -- Chapter 8 "It Dont Matter, Anyhow" -- Chapter 9 Competing Components -- Chapter 10 "The Holiest and Greatest Things" -- Afterword.
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001444732 520__ $$aThis book focuses on two important topics in Shaws Major Barbara and Pygmalion that have received little attention from critics: language and metadrama. If we look beyond the social, political, and economic issues that Shaw explored in these two plays, we discover that the stories of the two "Shavian sisters" Barbara Undershaft and Eliza Doolittle are deeply concerned with performance and what Jacques Derrida calls "the problem of language." Nearly every character in Major Barbara produces, directs, or acts in at least one miniature play. In Pygmalion, Henry Higgins is Elizas acting coach and phonetics teacher, as well as the star of an impromptu, open-air phonetics show. The language content in these two plays is just as intriguing. Did Eliza Doolittle have to learn Standard English to become a complete human being? Should we worry about the bad grammar we hear at Barbara Undershafts Salvation Army shelter? Is English losing its precision and purity? Meanwhile, in the background, Shaw keeps reminding us that language and theatre are always present in our everyday livessometimes serving as stabilizing forces, and sometimes working to undo them. Jean Reynolds is Professor Emerita of English at Polk State College, USA. Her previous publications include Shaw and Feminisms (2013), co-edited with D.L. Hadfield, and Pygmalions Wordplay: The Postmodern Shaw (1999), as well as multiple articles and reviews for SHAW: The Journal of Shaw Studies, of which she is an editorial board member.
001444732 588__ $$aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 14, 2022).
001444732 60010 $$aShaw, Bernard,$$d1856-1950$$xCriticism and interpretation.
001444732 60010 $$aShaw, Bernard,$$d1856-1950.$$tMajor Barbara.
001444732 60010 $$aShaw, Bernard,$$d1856-1950.$$tPygmalion.
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001444732 830_0 $$aBernard Shaw and his contemporaries.
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