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Record Nr.

UNINA9910345978503321

Autore

Penskaya Elena

Titolo

Theater as Metaphor / / Elena Penskaya, Joachim Küpper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin/Boston, : De Gruyter, 2019

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

3-11-062203-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)

Disciplina

792.01

Soggetti

Theater - Philosophy

Theater and philosophy

Theater in literature

Literature: history & criticism

Literary studies: plays & playwrights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"...contains the revised versions of papers read at the conference“Theater as Metaphor”, which took place on June 1 and 2, 2018 on the premises of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation in Cologne,Germany." -- Acknowledgements.

"This book is published in cooperation with the project DramaNet, funded by the European Research Council." -- Title page verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Between Metaphor and Cultural Practices: Theatrum and scena in the German- Speaking Sphere before 1648 -- Speсtacularity before the "Renaissance" of Theater: Visuality and Self-Image of the Quattrocento papacy -- Literal and Figurative Uses of the Pícaro: Graded Salience in Seventeenth-Century Picaresque Narrations -- Theater as Metaphor and Guiding Principle: The French Anecdote Tradition from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century -- "Dressed for life's short comedy": Desengaño and connivere libenter as Ethical Paradigms in William Shakespeare's Plays -- The Conceptualization of the World as Stage in Calderón and Cervantes - Christian Didacticism and its Ironic Rebuttal -- The King as a "Maker" of Theater: Le ballet de la nuit and Louis XIV -- War, Peace, and Territory in Late Eighteenth-Century



Russian Outdoor Performances -- Lucis an caliginis theatrum: Theatrical Metaphors in the Early Modern historia literaria -- Theater, World History, and Mythology: Theatrical Metaphors in Schelling's Philosophy -- The Philosophical Narrative as a Semiotic Laboratory of Theatrical Language: The Case of Jean Paul in the Context of the Russian Reception -- Theatrical Metaphor and the Discourse of History: Nikolai Karamzin -- Theater as Metaphor in the Drama of Alexander Ostrovsky -- The Theater of the Absurd and the Absurdity of Theater: The Early Plays of Beckett and Ionesco -- Chico Buarque's Gota d'água, uma tragédia carioca: Theater as Metaphor in Brazil during the Military Dictatorship, 1964-1985 -- From theatrum mundi to Theatricality -- Notes on Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

The papers of the present volume investigate the potential of the metaphor of life as theater for literary, philosophical, juridical and epistemological discourses from the Middle Ages through modernity, and focusing on traditions as manifold as French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian and Latin-American.