Abstract
dc:description.abstractTroupers: Essays in Three Rings is a collection of fourteen essays focused mainly on variety entertainers (including the author). It leads the reader through a menagerie of the author's own enthusiasms--from clowning and circus elephants, to hot jazz and the ukulele. While the primary occupation of the "troupers"spotlighted here has always been to delight audiences, many of them--both human and animal--could not escape the hardscrabble, the sundered relations, the violence of everyday life. The author tells the stories of these "troupers" here, stories that reveal both their suffering and their refusal to suffer.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- M.F.A.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Film, Theatre, and Communication Arts
- Year
- 2009
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Pult, Jon
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Bates, Randolph
- Harvey, Miles
- Bryant, Earle
Subjects
dc:subject × 17Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/931
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-1912