Defferance: David Mamet’s Oleanna [In English] by Behnaz Amani

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LIFE IS A PLAY: reading David Mamet's sexual perversity in Chicago and Glengarry Glen Ross through Cognitive Poetics by Ghaeli, Rosa, Pirnajmuddin, Hossein

“…Using the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), the present essay explores the conceptual metaphor of LIFE IS A PLAY in David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago and Glengarry Glen Ross. …”
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Oleanna: A Cognitive Poetic Reading by Rosa Ghaelizad, Hosein Pirnajmuddin

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I rimandi a Čechov nei titoli delle opere di Akunin, Sorokin, Głowacki e Mamet by Manfred Schruba

“…The peculiarity of the examined plays is their reference to the pre-text as a whole, unlike the quotation or the allusion, which refer to the pre-text in a particular manner: Boris Akunin’s Seagull combines elements of a sequel and a contrafaction of Chekhov’s Seagull; Vladimir Sorokin’s Jubilee is an example of collage of various plays by Chekhov; Janusz Głowacki’s The Fourth Sister can be seen as a transformation (adoption of the topic) of the Three Sisters; David Mamet’s Uncle Vanya combines some traits of an adaptation and a remake of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. …”
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Is there drama in contemporary America? : is there postmodernism in American drama?: Shepard vs. Mamet - whose America is (more) real? by Vesna Bratić

“…A stage cohabitation of the postmodern experiment and a realist frame in the contemporary theatre is well illustrated by the two popular contemporary playwrights: Sam Shepard and David Mamet. By their creative opus, not only in the fields of drama and theatre, but also in other literary genres (poetry, essay) as well as in film, through a variety of different characters and situations, these two authors reveal a rich variety of the many possible variations of American social (con)text. …”
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