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Chicks to a flock: Restoration of community in the Porgy story

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1996
Summary:
In contrast to the widely held notion that an original work is typically superior in quality to its derivatives, Porgy and Bess, the opera, and Porgy, the play, present clearer conflicts between community and individualism than Porgy, the novel. Through narrative description, occasional dialogue, and some brief verse, Porgy, the novel, portrays the struggle between animalism and community. Porgy, the play, offers essentially the same story, but the visible actors and audible dialogue, more vividly creates community. Because these actors exchange their thoughts and feelings verbally, in much the same way as neighbors do, the play creates a more tangible sense of community interchange. The story's operatic treatment, in Porgy and Bess, adds a choral feature to the play's spoken exchanges. As the chorus acts as a communal voice, the opera present the most potent communal message.
Title: Chicks to a flock: Restoration of community in the Porgy story.
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Name(s): Greenwald, Darren.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Paton, Priscilla, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1996
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 91 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: In contrast to the widely held notion that an original work is typically superior in quality to its derivatives, Porgy and Bess, the opera, and Porgy, the play, present clearer conflicts between community and individualism than Porgy, the novel. Through narrative description, occasional dialogue, and some brief verse, Porgy, the novel, portrays the struggle between animalism and community. Porgy, the play, offers essentially the same story, but the visible actors and audible dialogue, more vividly creates community. Because these actors exchange their thoughts and feelings verbally, in much the same way as neighbors do, the play creates a more tangible sense of community interchange. The story's operatic treatment, in Porgy and Bess, adds a choral feature to the play's spoken exchanges. As the chorus acts as a communal voice, the opera present the most potent communal message.
Identifier: 15250 (digitool), FADT15250 (IID), fau:12021 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1996.
Subject(s): Heyward, DuBose,--1885-1940.--Porgy.
Gershwin, George,--1898-1937.--Porgy and Bess.
Community in literature.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
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