The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000U of Minnesota Press, 1 jan 2002 - 347 pagina's Spanning a quarter of a century, the essays in this book rehearse, in the movement of memory and cross-reflection, an extensive career in theater. The work of Herbert Blau--his directing, writing, and criticism--has been a determining force during this period as theater encounters theory. |
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Pagina vii
... Theater 12. The Pipe Dreams of O'Neill in the Age of Deconstruction 189 13. Readymade Desire 199 14. Water under the Bridge 206 From Tango Palace to Mud 15. Fervently Impossible 215 The Group Idea and Its Legacy Contents.
... Theater 12. The Pipe Dreams of O'Neill in the Age of Deconstruction 189 13. Readymade Desire 199 14. Water under the Bridge 206 From Tango Palace to Mud 15. Fervently Impossible 215 The Group Idea and Its Legacy Contents.
Pagina x
... dream or that, seek for truth as we may—in the meta- physical mist of seeming that won't seem to go away—it somehow al- ways escapes us or is not what it appears to be, as if at the heart of the re- ality principle is the future of ...
... dream or that, seek for truth as we may—in the meta- physical mist of seeming that won't seem to go away—it somehow al- ways escapes us or is not what it appears to be, as if at the heart of the re- ality principle is the future of ...
Pagina xii
... dreaming. There were times, moreover, when there was sufficient imaginative daring that, spellbound in looking, you almost had to look away, close as it was—in the recombinant seeming of body parts, ear into heel, ass into mouth, a ...
... dreaming. There were times, moreover, when there was sufficient imaginative daring that, spellbound in looking, you almost had to look away, close as it was—in the recombinant seeming of body parts, ear into heel, ass into mouth, a ...
Pagina xxiv
... dreams of the modern era, which has been nowhere real- ized except for, beyond the dubious, the delusive historical moment. This is not said with any cynicism or congenital disenchantment. That it seems impossible is no reason whatever ...
... dreams of the modern era, which has been nowhere real- ized except for, beyond the dubious, the delusive historical moment. This is not said with any cynicism or congenital disenchantment. That it seems impossible is no reason whatever ...
Pagina 7
... dream that still shapes the agenda of critical theory , as well as the fantasy text of dissident theater practice ? It's as if for the sake of renewal in the detritus of the dream a kind of homeopathic violence were required , and that ...
... dream that still shapes the agenda of critical theory , as well as the fantasy text of dissident theater practice ? It's as if for the sake of renewal in the detritus of the dream a kind of homeopathic violence were required , and that ...
Inhoudsopgave
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2 The Impossible Takes a Little Time | 18 |
3 Spacing Out in the American Theater | 37 |
Rehearsing the Resistance | 53 |
5 A Dove in My Chimney | 62 |
An Analytic Scenario | 70 |
The Grail of the Voice | 118 |
Chills and Fever Mourning and the Vanities of the Sublime | 132 |
13 Readymade Desire | 199 |
From Tango Palace to Mud | 206 |
The Group Idea and Its Legacy | 215 |
New Music and Theater | 230 |
17 FlatOut Vision | 246 |
Sovereign Pleasure and the Baroque Subject in the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher | 265 |
Revising the Abyss | 281 |
The Insane Root | 307 |
9 The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity | 137 |
Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America | 157 |
Educating the American Theater | 181 |
12 The Pipe Dreams of ONeill in the Age of Deconstruction | 189 |
Notes | 321 |
Previous Publications | 335 |
Index | 337 |
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