The Play of Space : : Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy / / Rush Rehm.
Is "space" a thing, a container, an abstraction, a metaphor, or a social construct? This much is certain: space is part and parcel of the theater, of what it is and how it works. In The Play of Space, noted classicist-director Rush Rehm offers a strikingly original approach to the spatial...
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Rehm, Rush, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Play of Space : Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy / Rush Rehm. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009] ©2002 1 online resource (464 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- A Note to the Reader -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. The Theater and Athenian Spatial Practice -- CHAPTER TWO. Space for Returns -- CHAPTER THREE. Eremetic Space -- CHAPTER FOUR. Space and the Body -- CHAPTER FIVE. Space, Time, and Memory: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus -- CHAPTER SIX. Space and the Other -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Is "space" a thing, a container, an abstraction, a metaphor, or a social construct? This much is certain: space is part and parcel of the theater, of what it is and how it works. In The Play of Space, noted classicist-director Rush Rehm offers a strikingly original approach to the spatial parameters of Greek tragedy as performed in the open-air theater of Dionysus. Emphasizing the interplay between natural place and fictional setting, between the world visible to the audience and that evoked by individual tragedies, Rehm argues for an ecology of the ancient theater, one that "nests" fifth-century theatrical space within other significant social, political, and religious spaces of Athens. Drawing on the work of James J. Gibson, Kurt Lewin, and Michel Foucault, Rehm crosses a range of disciplines--classics, theater studies, cognitive psychology, archaeology and architectural history, cultural studies, and performance theory--to analyze the phenomenology of space and its transformations in the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. His discussion of Athenian theatrical and spatial practice challenges the contemporary view that space represents a "text" to be read, or constitutes a site of structural dualities (e.g., outside-inside, public-private, nature-culture). Chapters on specific tragedies explore the spatial dynamics of homecoming ("space for returns"); the opposed constraints of exile ("eremetic space" devoid of normal community); the power of bodies in extremis to transform their theatrical environment ("space and the body"); the portrayal of characters on the margin ("space and the other"); and the tragic interactions of space and temporality ("space, time, and memory"). An appendix surveys pre-Socratic thought on space and motion, related ideas of Plato and Aristotle, and, as pertinent, later views on space developed by Newton, Leibniz, Descartes, Kant, and Einstein. Eloquently written and with Greek texts deftly translated, this book yields rich new insights into our oldest surviving drama. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Greek drama (Tragedy) History and criticism. Space and time in literature. Theater History To 500. Theater Greece. PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism. bisacsh Aegina. Alcibiades. Amazons. Beckett, Samuel. Chomsky, Noam. Diogenes of Apollonia. Eleatics. Empedocles. Foucault, Michel. Gellie, George. Goldhill, Simon. Halliburton, David. Heidegger, Martin. Heraclitus. Jameson, Michael. Lewin, Kurt. Loraux, Nicole. Newton, Isaac. Nightingale, Andrea. Palladion. Panhellenic norms. Parminides. Pnyx. Seaford, Richard. Themistocles. actors. architecture. dance. elements. ephebeia. exile. hero cult. landscape. memory. orality. role doubling. semiotics. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691058092 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400825073 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400825073 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400825073.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- A Note to the Reader -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. The Theater and Athenian Spatial Practice -- CHAPTER TWO. Space for Returns -- CHAPTER THREE. Eremetic Space -- CHAPTER FOUR. Space and the Body -- CHAPTER FIVE. Space, Time, and Memory: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus -- CHAPTER SIX. Space and the Other -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index |
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