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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793800503321

Autore

Korneeva Tatiana

Titolo

The Dramaturgy of the Spectator : Italian Theatre and the Public Sphere, 1600-1800 / / Tatiana Korneeva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-4875-3208-3

1-4875-3209-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 pages)

Collana

Toronto Italian Studies

Classificazione

cci1icc

Disciplina

792.0945

Soggetti

Italian drama - To 1700 - History and criticism

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chronology -- Introduction -- 1. How Theatre Invents the Public Sphere -- 2. The Privileged Visibility of the Viewer -- 3. The Politics of Spectatorship -- 4. Public Emotions and Emotional Publics -- 5. Playwrights Fight Back -- 6. Liberty and the Audience -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

"The Dramaturgy of the Spectator: pioneers a shift in the way we think about theatre audience as both theoretical concept and historical phenomenon by examining the metomorphosis of spectators from an uncritical mass of early modern theatre-goers to an Enlightenment audience of experts and critics. This study argues for a gradual change in the self-conception of the spectatorship during the two"golden" centuries of Italian dramatic literature, outlining the dramatic strategies by which theatre called into being an adjusting audience capable of both aesthetics and political analysis. The author shows that, contrary to expectations, the public's progressive centrality to the theatre helped to create rather than hinder the playwrights's self-assertion and expression. At the same time, the discussion moves beyond spectatorship per se to consider a range of cultural assumptions and practices. These include the emergent public sphere, the power



structures and social and cultural politics in Italy."--

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910633926903321

Autore

Lai Cheng-chung

Titolo

Adam Smith and Yan Fu: Western Economics in Chinese Perspective / / by Cheng-chung Lai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

9789811965739

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (101 pages)

Collana

Economics and Finance Series

Disciplina

330.153

Soggetti

Europe - Economic conditions

Asia - Economic conditions

Philosophy, Chinese

European Economics

Asian Economics

Chinese Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Overview -- Spread of The Wealth of Nations -- Reception of The Wealth of Nations -- Traduttore Traditore -- Yan Fu’s understanding of The Wealth of Nations -- Yan Fu’s Economic Ideas -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines at a static level how Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776) was introduced into China at the turn of the twentieth century. In a dynamic socio-economic context, Yan Fu (1854-1921) had The Wealth of Nations in mind as a prescription for China's "Wealth and Power". This book aims answer the question of whether The Wealth of Nations, a book which advocates laissez-faire, free trade, and minimum governance helpful for China with very different economic conditions and modes of thought to the West and goes on to reexamine Yan Fu's economic ideas through a modern economics perspective.