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 xii
... feel in tragedy but rather a flat-out attesta- tion to the powers of imagination, dismissed in recent years as a swol- len conceit or transcendental signifier, with its pretentious claims to a privileged vision that is merely ...
... feel in tragedy but rather a flat-out attesta- tion to the powers of imagination, dismissed in recent years as a swol- len conceit or transcendental signifier, with its pretentious claims to a privileged vision that is merely ...
Pagina xviii
... feeling , unsusceptible to any coding , at least for the historical moment , thus awaking possibility or , in the ca- pacity to be confounding , stirring the social imaginary , unblocking so- cial praxis or refining an identity politics ...
... feeling , unsusceptible to any coding , at least for the historical moment , thus awaking possibility or , in the ca- pacity to be confounding , stirring the social imaginary , unblocking so- cial praxis or refining an identity politics ...
Pagina xxi
... feel about the profes- sion overall . That's why I stayed in the English Department after wander- ing into a class on modern poetry , with a teacher who turned out to be — I hadn't the faintest idea who he was — the redoubtable Yvor ...
... feel about the profes- sion overall . That's why I stayed in the English Department after wander- ing into a class on modern poetry , with a teacher who turned out to be — I hadn't the faintest idea who he was — the redoubtable Yvor ...
Pagina xxiv
... feel, as I suggested in Take Up the Bodies, that what I am doing in theory has something of the animus of that work be- fore, against all will and desire, it unfortunately came to an end. Thus, if there is in these essays—as in the ...
... feel, as I suggested in Take Up the Bodies, that what I am doing in theory has something of the animus of that work be- fore, against all will and desire, it unfortunately came to an end. Thus, if there is in these essays—as in the ...
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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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