Theatricality as Medium /

Theatricality as Medium / / Samuel Weber.

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Ever since Aristotle's Poetics, both the theory and the practice of theater have been governed by the assumption that it is a form of representation dominated by what Aristotle calls the "mythos," or the "plot." This conception of theater has subordinated characteristics rel...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Weber, Samuel,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (414 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Prior Publication
  • Introduction: Theatricality as Medium
  • 1. Theatrocracy; or, Surviving the Break
  • 2. Technics, Theatricality, Installation
  • 3. Scene and Screen: Electronic Media and Theatricality
  • 4. Antigone’s Nomos
  • 5. The Place of Death: Oedipus at Colonus
  • 6. Storming the Work: Allegory and Theatricality in Benjamin’s Origin of the German Mourning Play
  • 7. ‘‘Ibi et ubique’’: The Incontinent Plot (Hamlet)
  • 8. Kierkegaard’s Posse
  • 9. After the End: Adorno
  • 10. Psychoanalysis and Theatricality
  • 11. ‘‘The Virtual Reality of Theater’’: Antonin Artaud
  • 12. Double Take: Acting and Writing in Genet’s ‘‘The Strange Word Urb’’
  • 13. ‘‘Being . . . and eXistenZ’’: Some Preliminary Considerations on Theatricality in Film
  • 14. ‘‘War,’’ ‘‘Terrorism,’’ and ‘‘Spectacle’’: On Towers and Caves
  • 15. Stages and Plots: Theatricality after September 11, 2001
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Index

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