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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... illusion? And why do we seem to forget that at the heart of the theater itself is a genetic distrust of theater, at least in the specular tradition extending from the bloody eyes of Oedipus through the ghostings and mousetrap of Hamlet ...
... illusion? And why do we seem to forget that at the heart of the theater itself is a genetic distrust of theater, at least in the specular tradition extending from the bloody eyes of Oedipus through the ghostings and mousetrap of Hamlet ...
Pagina xxiii
... illusions we may have had about the social formation required in order to sustain a theater. When the Group sus- pended ... illusion, about which I had written at length in The Audience, the essay goes on to consider the anthropological ...
... illusions we may have had about the social formation required in order to sustain a theater. When the Group sus- pended ... illusion, about which I had written at length in The Audience, the essay goes on to consider the anthropological ...
Pagina 6
... illusory liberation that, in still other parts of the world, are making a compelling case for neocolonization. That may be very hard to swallow in our cultural studies, with its politics of difference and, with certain reigning pieties ...
... illusory liberation that, in still other parts of the world, are making a compelling case for neocolonization. That may be very hard to swallow in our cultural studies, with its politics of difference and, with certain reigning pieties ...
Pagina 7
... illusions of collectivity at the end of the real. That end may merely be, if not its foundation myth, the most mordant master narrative of the postmodern; but if the real returns as ubiquitously as ideology—whose end has also been ...
... illusions of collectivity at the end of the real. That end may merely be, if not its foundation myth, the most mordant master narrative of the postmodern; but if the real returns as ubiquitously as ideology—whose end has also been ...
Pagina 9
... illusions of théâtre populaire, they first brought me to Europe in the fifties, because it seemed the correlative of ... illusion. Why did we pursue it? Because it was impossible. This paradox might be further defined around the concept ...
... illusions of théâtre populaire, they first brought me to Europe in the fifties, because it seemed the correlative of ... illusion. Why did we pursue it? Because it was impossible. This paradox might be further defined around the concept ...
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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