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 ix
... thought.”1 What was also there to begin with, in the theater as in theory, are certain elliptical habits of mind that may rub against the grain of the new historicizations, no less the often foregone conclusions in the heuristics of ...
... thought.”1 What was also there to begin with, in the theater as in theory, are certain elliptical habits of mind that may rub against the grain of the new historicizations, no less the often foregone conclusions in the heuristics of ...
Pagina xi
... thought of as disempowering, but which at the perceptual limit haunts my previous books, and which for better or worse, at least in certain passages, will be ghosting this one too. As for “Flat-Out Vision,” which I wrote for a ...
... thought of as disempowering, but which at the perceptual limit haunts my previous books, and which for better or worse, at least in certain passages, will be ghosting this one too. As for “Flat-Out Vision,” which I wrote for a ...
Pagina xiv
... thought, some of what appears to follow was actually written before, as if an inciting subtext had surfaced from its apparent realization. Sometimes the mate- rial is arranged by theoretical juxtaposition , as issues bear xiv Introduction.
... thought, some of what appears to follow was actually written before, as if an inciting subtext had surfaced from its apparent realization. Sometimes the mate- rial is arranged by theoretical juxtaposition , as issues bear xiv Introduction.
Pagina xvii
... thought about what we were doing, and ideas informing the work—once we were into it, mostly by reflex—it seemed a far cry from attitudes about the arts circulating in critical theory, with its ideological take on the status of the ...
... thought about what we were doing, and ideas informing the work—once we were into it, mostly by reflex—it seemed a far cry from attitudes about the arts circulating in critical theory, with its ideological take on the status of the ...
Pagina xix
... thought, well, there has been some progress since the more closeted Tea and Sympathy. That said, the sequence on American playwrights may be thought of as a sort of atonement. For it may be apparent here and there that since my earliest ...
... thought, well, there has been some progress since the more closeted Tea and Sympathy. That said, the sequence on American playwrights may be thought of as a sort of atonement. For it may be apparent here and there that since my earliest ...
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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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