The dubious spectacle : extremities of theater, 1976-2000 / / Herbert Blau
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| Autore: |
Blau Herbert
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| Titolo: |
The dubious spectacle : extremities of theater, 1976-2000 / / Herbert Blau
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (374 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 792/.01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Theater - Philosophy |
| Drama - History and criticism - Theory, etc | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-333) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Introduction; 1. Afterthought from the Vanishing Point: Theater at the End of the Real; 2. The Impossible Takes a Little Time; 3. Spacing Out in the American Theater; 4. From Red Hill to the Renaissance: Rehearsing the Resistance; 5. A Dove in My Chimney; 6. Elsinore: An Analytic Scenario; 7. Deep Throat: The Grail of the Voice; 8. A Valediction: Chills and Fever, Mourning, and the Vanities of the Sublime; 9. The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity; 10. Fantasia and Simulacra: Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America |
| 11. With Your Permission: Educating the American Theater12. The Pipe Dreams of O'Neill in the Age of Deconstruction; 13. Readymade Desire; 14. Water under the Bridge: From Tango Palace to Mud; 15. Fervently Impossible: The Group Idea and Its Legacy; 16. Noise, Musication, Beethoven, and Solid Sound: New Music and Theater; 17. Flat-Out Vision; 18. The Absolved Riddle: Sovereign Pleasure and the Baroque Subject in the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher; 19. ""Set Me Where You Stand"": Revising the Abyss; 20. Limits of Performance: The Insane Root; Notes; Previous Publications; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The dubious spectacle |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-9288-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819559803321 |
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