Language and metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion : Shavian sisters / Jean Reynolds.
2022
PR5367 .R49 2022
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Title
Language and metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion : Shavian sisters / Jean Reynolds.
ISBN
9783030960711 (electronic bk.)
3030960714 (electronic bk.)
9783030960704
3030960706
3030960714 (electronic bk.)
9783030960704
3030960706
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-96071-1 doi
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PR5367 .R49 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
822/.912
Summary
This 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 14, 2022).
Series
Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries.
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Table of Contents
Part 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.
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.