The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000U of Minnesota Press, 01.01.2002 - 347 Seiten 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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... Theater 12. The Pipe Dreams of O'Neill in the Age of Deconstruction 189 13. Readymade Desire 199 14. Water under the Bridge 206 From Tango Palace to Mud 15. Fervently Impossible 215 The Group Idea and Its Legacy Contents.
... Theater 12. The Pipe Dreams of O'Neill in the Age of Deconstruction 189 13. Readymade Desire 199 14. Water under the Bridge 206 From Tango Palace to Mud 15. Fervently Impossible 215 The Group Idea and Its Legacy Contents.
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... idea of performance unable to escape from theater, with its topography of appearance, always under suspicion, and the impossible prospect of ever relieving that—no more than a generation of anti- Oedipus or the lure of performative ...
... idea of performance unable to escape from theater, with its topography of appearance, always under suspicion, and the impossible prospect of ever relieving that—no more than a generation of anti- Oedipus or the lure of performative ...
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... idea who he was — the redoubtable Yvor Winters , with whom , eventually , I did my dissertation . ) That novice essay on play- writing , with the fervor of an aesthetic somewhat ahead of itself , is not included here , but many years ...
... idea who he was — the redoubtable Yvor Winters , with whom , eventually , I did my dissertation . ) That novice essay on play- writing , with the fervor of an aesthetic somewhat ahead of itself , is not included here , but many years ...
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... idea of performance as an activity of percep- tion. At ground zero the work moved through “the teleology of an im ... ideas I brought, years before Elsinore was a mote in the mind's eye, to the evolution of a company at The Actor's ...
... idea of performance as an activity of percep- tion. At ground zero the work moved through “the teleology of an im ... ideas I brought, years before Elsinore was a mote in the mind's eye, to the evolution of a company at The Actor's ...
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... idea was resuscitat- ed in the sixties, the impetus and support for it had diminished through the seventies, bottoming out in the eighties. And now we increasingly wonder, in a globalized economy expanding through cyberspace, about what ...
... idea was resuscitat- ed in the sixties, the impetus and support for it had diminished through the seventies, bottoming out in the eighties. And now we increasingly wonder, in a globalized economy expanding through cyberspace, about what ...
Inhalt
1 | |
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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