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
... suggesting “a dramatic and contingent construction of 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 ...
... suggesting “a dramatic and contingent construction of 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 ...
Pagina xi
... suggest toward the end of the essay , what Barthes says of the photograph might be describing Brecht's Baal , whose serial mortifications not only occur in quick expo- sures but , in the repetitive acts of his perverse , insatiable ...
... suggest toward the end of the essay , what Barthes says of the photograph might be describing Brecht's Baal , whose serial mortifications not only occur in quick expo- sures but , in the repetitive acts of his perverse , insatiable ...
Pagina xiv
... suggested in the essay “Noise, Musica- tion, Beethoven, and Solid Sound.” However solid the sound, it is sub- ject to evanescence, like this too, too solid flesh, destined to disappear- ance, though Beethoven in a sonata (his last, in C ...
... suggested in the essay “Noise, Musica- tion, Beethoven, and Solid Sound.” However solid the sound, it is sub- ject to evanescence, like this too, too solid flesh, destined to disappear- ance, though Beethoven in a sonata (his last, in C ...
Pagina xvi
... suggest in an introductory note , Hamlet's rethinking of us . In that process there was a kind of cerebral passion in the remarkable bodies of the actors , who — speaking of corpo- real style could literally perform standing on their ...
... suggest in an introductory note , Hamlet's rethinking of us . In that process there was a kind of cerebral passion in the remarkable bodies of the actors , who — speaking of corpo- real style could literally perform standing on their ...
Pagina xxiii
... suggest at the outset of this book's eponymous essay. “As for the scholarship that takes for granted that theater is the site of the social, or an affirmation of community, that appears to me now—though I be- lieved it when I was ...
... suggest at the outset of this book's eponymous essay. “As for the scholarship that takes for granted that theater is the site of the social, or an affirmation of community, that appears to me now—though I be- lieved it when I was ...
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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