Plays of Expectations: Intertextual Relations in Russian Twentieth-Century Drama

by Andrew Baruch Wachtel

Book Overview

Expectation is an integral part of the reading experience. As we read a text, we begin to classify it and compare it to others with which it seems to share a family resemblance. Drama is a particularly rich and rewarding field for studying the complex ways in which such expectations are created. Theatre audiences and readers of plays are encouraged in a variety of ways to guess at what might unfold on the stage and on the page, and much of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295986476
• ISBN13: 9780295986470
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 8.9"