Clowns, fools and picaros : : popular forms in theatre, fiction and film / / edited by David Robb.
By its very nature the clown, as represented in art, is an interdisciplinary phenomenon. In whichever artform it appears – fiction, drama, film, photography or fine art – it carries the symbolic association of its usage in popular culture, be it ritual festivities, street theatre or circus. The clow...
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| Superior document: | At the interface, probing the boundaries ; 43 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ;
v. 43. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
| Notes: | Based on papers from a conference held at the Queen's University of Belfast in September 4-6, 2003. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / David Robb
- Where The Antic Sits / Robert Cheesmond
- Modern Tragicomedy and the Fool / Faye Ran
- The Postmodern Theatre Clown / Ashley Tobias
- Nietzsche and the Praise of Masks / Rüdiger Görner
- Clowning Around at the Limits of Representation: On Fools, Fetishes and Bruce Nauman’s Clown Torture / Maxim Leonid Weintraub
- An American Circus: the Lynch Victim as Clown / Barbara Lewis
- The Court Jester in Nigerian Drama / Kayode Gboyega Kofoworola
- “Fratello Arlecchino”: Clowns, Kings, and Bombs in Bali / Ron Jenkins
- Scaramouche: The Mask and the Millenium. / Stephen Knapper
- The Cinema of Masks: Commedia dell’Arte and Jean Renoir’s The Golden Coach / Des O’Rawe
- From Nestroy to Wenzel and Mensching: carnivalesque revolutionaries in the German and Austrian theatrical tradition / David Robb
- Karolos Koun, Karaghiozis and The Birds: Aristophanes as Popular Theatre / Marina Kotzamani
- The Clown as Social Critic: Kerouac’s Vision / Stephen Llano
- Picaresque Narratology: Lazarillo de Tormes and Edgar Hilsenrath’s Der Nazi und der Friseur / Bernhard Malkmus
- Notes on Contributors.