Bodied Spaces : : Phenomenology and Performance in Contemporary Drama / / Stanton Garner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Garner, Stanton,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

"At me too someone is looking. "—Samuel Beckett, Waiting for GodotIn a venturesome study of corporeality and perception in contemporary drama, Stanton B. Garner, Jr., turns this awareness of the spectator's gaze back upon itself. His book takes up two of drama's most essential and elusive elements: spatiality, through which plays establish fields of visual and environmental relationship; and the human body, through which these fields are articulated. Within the spatial terms of theater, this book puts the body and its perceptual worlds back into performance theory.Garner's approach is phenomenological, emphasizing perception and experience in the theatrical environment. His discussion of the work of playwrights after 1950-including Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Peter Weiss, Harold Pinter, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Edward Bond, Maria Irene Fornes, Caryl Churchill, and Ntozake Shange—explores the body's modes of presence in contemporary drama. Drawing on work in areas as diverse as scenographic theory, medical phenomenology, contemporary linguistics, and feminist theories of the body, Garner addresses topics such as theatrical image, stage objects, dramatic language, the suffering body, and the staging of gender, all with a view toward developing a phenomenology of mise en scene.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Occupations -- CHAPTER 1. Phenomenology and Performance -- CHAPTER 2. (Dis)figuring Space: Visual Field in Beckett's Late Plays -- CHAPTER 3. Object, Objectivity, and the Phenomenal Body -- CHAPTER 4. The Performing "I": Language and the Histrionics of Place -- CHAPTER 5. Post-Brechtian Anatomies: The Politics of Embodiment -- CHAPTER 6. Female Landscapes: Phenomenology and Gender -- AFTERWORD. Traces: The Dragons' Trilogy -- Bibliography -- Index