caa a22 4500 606172408 CHVBK 20210128100728.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11059-013-0215-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11059-013-0215-8 Cardullo Robert Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey aut Experimental theatre in the twentieth century: avant-gardism, the absurd, and the postmodern [Elektronische Daten] [Robert Cardullo] Modern drama is still patently viewed as moving from the realistic Ibsen and the naturalistic Strindberg to the socially, politically, and psychologically oriented "problem plays" of the twentieth century (and beyond), fed occasionally by assorted "techniques" from aberrant avant-garde movements. This essay, agrues, by contrast, for a revisionist history of modern drama that would acknowledge the innovative and visionary contributions of "modernism," as linked to the historical and literary avant-garde, be it in the form of expressionism, symbolism, futurism, dada, or surrealism. From the inception of the absurd, moreover, avant-garde drama has certainly not ceased to proliferate. Yet in the late 1960s we entered the era of postmodernism, in which two events occurred to halt the "advance" of avant-garde drama. The first is the embrace by postmodern playwrights of a stylistic pluralism, an eclectic and often selfreflexive interweaving of different styles drawn from different time periods. The second is the deification of postmodern performance through the merging of author and director into a single "superstar." The most significant efforts of the avant-garde do continue to involve the self-conscious exploration of the nature, limits, and possibilities of drama and theater in contemporary society; but the vision of and for the future manifest in such work remains tentative and unclear, it is as though the avant-garde could not overcome the doubt and distrust foisted upon its potential for inspired vision. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary, 2014 Avant-gardism nationallicence Modernism nationallicence Postmodernism nationallicence Absurdism nationallicence Theater and drama nationallicence Performance art nationallicence Neohelicon Springer Netherlands 42/1(2015-06-01), 341-358 0324-4652 42:1<341 2015 42 11059 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-013-0215-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-013-0215-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cardullo Robert Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neohelicon Springer Netherlands 42/1(2015-06-01), 341-358 0324-4652 42:1<341 2015 42 11059