Deliver Us from Evil by Don Basham
Theaters of the Everyday: Aesthetic Democracy on the American Stage reveals a vital but little-recognized current in American theatrical history: the dramatic representation of the quotidian and mundane. Jacob Gallagher-Ross shows how twentieth-century American theater became a space for negotiating the demands of innovative form and democratic availability. Offering both fresh reappraisals of canonical figures and movements and new examinations of theatrical innovators, Theaters of the Everyday reveals surprising affinities between artists often considered poles apart, such as John Cage and Lee Strasberg, and Thornton Wilder and the New York experimentalist Nature Theater of Oklahoma. Gallagher-Ross persuasively shows how these creators eschew conventional definitions of dramatic action and focus attention on smaller but no less profound dramas of perception, consciousness, and day-to-day life. Gallagher-Ross traces some of the intellectual roots of the theater of the everyday to American transcendentalism, with its pragmatic process philosophy as well as its sense of ordinary experience as the wellspring of aesthetic awareness.
Don Basham (1926-1991) was born and reared in Wichita Falls, Texas. As a young man he left a promising career as a commercial artist in that city to enter the Christian ministry. Basham held both B.A. and B.D. degrees from Phillips University and its Graduate Seminary in Enid, Oklahoma, and was an ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Basham served as pastor in churches in Washington, D.C.; Toronto, Canada; and Sharon, Pennsylvania. He also served as editor of New Wine, an international magazine dedicated to Christian growth, for a time while living in Mobile, Alabama, with his wife, Alice, and their children. He was involved in writing, counseling, and teaching in both national and international speaking engagements.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780800790691 |
| ISBN 10 | 0800790693 |
| Title | Deliver Us from Evil |
| Author | Don Basham |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Fleming H. Revell Company |
| Year published | 1995-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 223 |
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