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 x
... meaning”4—is in parody and remonstrance a disavowal of theater, or the sort of embodied performance that endorses or perpetu- ates what representation conceals. Which returns us to the charge (an- other repetitive act) that it is a ...
... meaning”4—is in parody and remonstrance a disavowal of theater, or the sort of embodied performance that endorses or perpetu- ates what representation conceals. Which returns us to the charge (an- other repetitive act) that it is a ...
Pagina xiv
... meanings clamor for recognition. There is money in noise, as dot-com routers and disc jockeys know, and if there was once a music of the spheres, imparting harmony to the universe, it commanded nothing like the income of a rap musi ...
... meanings clamor for recognition. There is money in noise, as dot-com routers and disc jockeys know, and if there was once a music of the spheres, imparting harmony to the universe, it commanded nothing like the income of a rap musi ...
Pagina xviii
... meanings may have been , or not , it was then that I discovered that the apparently aimless , actionless , insular ( for some , opaque ) , self - reflexive incapacities of Beckett's plays or the scabrous mystifications of Genet's ...
... meanings may have been , or not , it was then that I discovered that the apparently aimless , actionless , insular ( for some , opaque ) , self - reflexive incapacities of Beckett's plays or the scabrous mystifications of Genet's ...
Pagina 7
... meanings would be determined , or “ constructed , ” by the members of the audi- ence . But what audience they would be members of , in any public sense ( with scale ) , is as indeterminate as meaning itself in the metaphysical slapstick ...
... meanings would be determined , or “ constructed , ” by the members of the audi- ence . But what audience they would be members of , in any public sense ( with scale ) , is as indeterminate as meaning itself in the metaphysical slapstick ...
Pagina 14
... meanings. Violating the body is, in the paradox of performance, a testament to the human: not only the sign of its endurance but, in either the implaca- bility or mania of self-determination, an inviolable respect. The resisting body is ...
... meanings. Violating the body is, in the paradox of performance, a testament to the human: not only the sign of its endurance but, in either the implaca- bility or mania of self-determination, an inviolable respect. The resisting body is ...
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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