Theater As Metaphor.

• Author: Penskaya, Elena.
• TeilnehmendeR: Küpper, Joachim.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2019.; ©2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- I: Early Modern Variations -- 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 -- II: The Romantic Turn -- 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 -- III: Twentieth-Century Experimentations and Theoretical Explorations -- 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.