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Autore |
Delgado-García Cristina |
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Rethinking character in contemporary british theatre : aesthetics, politics, subjectivity / / Cristina Delgado-García |
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Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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3-11-041122-9 |
3-11-033391-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Collana |
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CDE Studies, , 2194-9069 ; ; Volume 26 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Theater - Great Britain - 21st century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Preface: Character Remains -- Introduction -- 1. The Life, Death and Second Coming of Character -- 2. Figuring the Subject beyond Individuality -- 3. Singular Subjectivities -- 4. Collective Subjectivities -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Brief Survey of Character-less Plays, 1900 - Present -- Works Cited -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The category of theatrical character has been swiftly dismissed in the academic reception of no-longer-dramatic texts and performances. However, claims on the dissolution of character narrowly demarcate what a subject is and how it may appear. This volume unmoors theatre scholarship from the regulatory ideals of liberal humanism, stretching the notion of character to encompass and illuminate otherwise unaccounted-for subjects, aesthetic strategies and political gestures in recent theatre works. To this aim, contemporary philosophical theories of subjectivation, European theatre studies, and experimental, script-led work produced in Britain since the late 1990s are mobilised as discussants on the question of subjectivity. Four contemporary playtexts and their performances are examined in depth: Sarah Kane's Crave and 4.48 Psychosis, Ed Thomas's Stone City Blue and Tim Crouch's ENGLAND. Through these case studies, Delgado-García |
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demonstrates alternative ways of engaging theoretically with character, and elucidating a range of subjective figures beyond identity and individuality. Alongside these analyses, the book traces a large body of work that has experimented with speech attribution since the early twentieth-century. This is a timely contribution to contemporary theatre scholarship, which demonstrates that character remains a malleable and politically-salient notion in which understandings of subjectivity are still being negotiated. |
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