All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater /

All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater / / Benjamin Bennett.

All Theater Is Revolutionary Theater is the first book to consider why, in the Western tradition (and only in the Western tradition), theatrical drama is regarded as its own literary or poetic type, when the criteria needed to differentiate drama from other forms of writing do not resemble the crite...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Bennett, Benjamin,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2005
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (260 p.) :; 3 charts/graphs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • Part One
  • CHAPTER ONE. Aristotle's Defeat
  • CHAPTER TWO. Genre and Drama: The Historical and Theoretical Background
  • Part Two
  • CHAPTER THREE. Brecht's Writing against Writing
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Brecht, Artaud, Wedekind, Eliot: The Absence of the Subject
  • CHAPTER FIVE. The Theater That Never Was: Georg Buchner and Drama as a Philosophical Experiment
  • CHAPTER SIX. Hofmannsthal's Theater of Adaptation
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Diderot, Shaw, Beckett, and the Meaning of Plays
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Performance and the Exposure of Hermeneutics
  • CHAPTER NINE. Robert Wilson and the Work as an Empty Wavelength for Its Own Public Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • APPENDIX. How Buchner Uses and Conceives of Thomas Paine (Payne) in Dantons Tod
  • NOTES
  • Index

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