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
... 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 ideological. What can one say? Here the imprinted residue ...
... 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 ideological. What can one say? Here the imprinted residue ...
Pagina xiv
... tion, the same might be said of noise, through which, in the cybernetic feedback of its lucrative dominance, multitudinous meanings clamor for recognition. There is money in noise, as dot-com routers and disc jockeys know, and if there ...
... tion, the same might be said of noise, through which, in the cybernetic feedback of its lucrative dominance, multitudinous meanings clamor for recognition. There is money in noise, as dot-com routers and disc jockeys know, and if there ...
Pagina xv
... the substance of the myth , in the visual arts and poetry ( and there was a lot of poetic activity before the erup- tion of Howl ) , the view from Red Hill on theater was not what it should have been . Even now , “ I wish Introduction XV.
... the substance of the myth , in the visual arts and poetry ( and there was a lot of poetic activity before the erup- tion of Howl ) , the view from Red Hill on theater was not what it should have been . Even now , “ I wish Introduction XV.
Pagina xvii
... tion . ” And I cannot imagine any of them announcing anything like a “ subject position . ” “ A Valediction ” is brief and maybe a little testy , but what came through the chills and fever is what , at the risk of elitism but out of the ...
... tion . ” And I cannot imagine any of them announcing anything like a “ subject position . ” “ A Valediction ” is brief and maybe a little testy , but what came through the chills and fever is what , at the risk of elitism but out of the ...
Pagina xx
... tion, sometimes virulently, critiquing the theater itself. What was strange, alienating, unsettling in those plays was also a productive ungrounding, thus energizing my own critique. If I avoided, for the most part, writing about ...
... tion, sometimes virulently, critiquing the theater itself. What was strange, alienating, unsettling in those plays was also a productive ungrounding, thus energizing my own critique. If I avoided, for the most part, writing about ...
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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