Role playing and identity : : the limits of theatre as metaphor / / Bruce W. Wilshire.
What do actors accomplish when they play characters on stage? Bruce Wilshire contends that through deliberate mimetic involvement, actors attempt to display how we are already mimetically involved with others offstage-bound up with them and authorized by them through imitation. To illustrate his arg...
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