03510nam 2200733Ia 450 991095472480332120200520144314.09780791487716079148771797814175359961417535997(CKB)1000000000447619(OCoLC)61367768(CaPaEBR)ebrary10587284(SSID)ssj0000173620(PQKBManifestationID)11176933(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000173620(PQKBWorkID)10164885(PQKB)11650573(OCoLC)56406332(MdBmJHUP)muse5937(Au-PeEL)EBL3408085(CaPaEBR)ebr10587284(DE-B1597)683923(DE-B1597)9780791487716(MiAaPQ)EBC3408085(Perlego)2674565(EXLCZ)99100000000044761920020529d2003 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrHow the world became a stage presence, theatricality, and the question of modernity /William Egginton1st ed.Albany, NY State University of New York Pressc20031 online resource (217 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780791455463 0791455467 9780791455456 0791455459 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Legend of Saint Genesius -- Actors, Agents, and Avatars -- Real Presence, Sympathetic Magic, and the Power of Gesture -- Saint Genesius on the Stage of the World -- A Tale of Two Cities: The Evolution of Renaissance Stage Practices in Madrid and Paris -- Theatricality versus Subjectivity -- Epilogue: A Future without Screens? -- Notes -- IndexWhat is special, distinct, modern about modernity? In How the World Became a Stage, William Egginton argues that the experience of modernity is fundamentally spatial rather than subjective and proposes replacing the vocabulary of subjectivity with the concepts of presence and theatricality. Following a Heideggerian injunctive to search for the roots of epochal change not in philosophies so much as in basic skills and practices, he describes the spatiality of modernity on the basis of a close historical analysis of the practices of spectacle from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period, paying particular attention to stage practices in France and Spain. He recounts how the space in which the world is disclosed changed from the full, magically charged space of presence to the empty, fungible, and theatrical space of the stage.TheaterEuropeHistory16th centuryTheaterEuropeHistory17th centuryTheater and societyEuropeHistory16th centuryTheater and societyEuropeHistory17th centuryTheaterHistoryTheaterHistoryTheater and societyHistoryTheater and societyHistory792/.094/09031CB 5170BVBrvkEgginton William1969-695833MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910954724803321How the world became a stage4362410UNINA