The play within the play : : the performance of meta-theatre and self-reflection / / edited by Gerhard Fischer, Bernhard Greiner.
The thirty chapters of this innovative international study are all devoted to the topic of the play within the play . The authors explore the wide range of aesthetic, literary-theoretical and philosophical issues associated with this rhetorical device, not only in terms of its original meta-theatric...
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| Superior document: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 112 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (477 p.) |
| Notes: | Selection of papers delivered at the 2004 Sydney German Studies Symposium and revised and edited for publication. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- The Birth of the Subject out of the Spirit of the Play within the Play: The Hamlet Paradigm / Bernhard Greiner
- Self-Reflexivity in the Play within the Play and its Cross-Genre Manifestation / Yifen Beus
- ‘Backstage Discourse’: Staging the Other in Ethnographic and Colonial Literature / Klaus R. Scherpe
- The Play within the Play and the Closure of Representation / David Roberts
- Playing and not Playing in Jean Genet’s The Balcony and The Blacks / Caroline Sheaffer-Jones
- The Figure in the Carpet: Metadramatical Concepts in Jacob Bidermann’s Cenodoxus (1602) / Christian Sinn
- Holding a Mirror up to Theatre: Baro, Gougenot, Scudéry and Corneille as Self-Referentialists in Paris, 1628-35/36 / John Golder
- Rehearsing the Endgame: Max Frisch’s Biography: A Play / Manfred Jurgensen
- Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound (1968) and The Real Thing (1982): New Frames and Old / Barnard Turner
- The Invisible Fool: Botho Strauss’s Postmodern Metadrama and the History of Theatrical Reality / Ulrike Landfester
- Queen of a Bathtub: Hanoch Levin’s Political, Aesthetic and Ethical Metatheatricality / Shimon Levy
- The Disguised and Distanced Real(ity) Play within the Fictitious Play in Israeli Stage-Drama / Gad Kaynar
- A Lacerated Culture, A Self-Reflexive Theatre: The Case of Israeli Drama / Zahava Caspi
- ‘Very Tragical Mirth’: The Play within the Play as a Strategy for Interweaving Tragedy and Comedy / Frank Zipfel
- Play and Reality in Austrian Drama: The Figure of the Magister Ludi / Herbert Herzmann
- Playing Tragedy: Detaching Tragedy from Itself in Classical Drama from Lessing to Büchner / Helmut J. Schneider
- Playwrights Playing with History: The Play within the Play and German Historical Drama (Büchner, Brecht, Weiss, Müller) / Gerhard Fischer
- Postmodernism Unmasked: Rainald Goetz’s Festung and Albert Ostermaier’s The Making of B-Movie / Birgit Haas
- The Context Within: The Play within the Play between Theatre Anthropology, System Theory and Postcolonial Critique / Lada Cale Feldman
- Intercultural Framing in Aimé Césaire’s Une Tempête / Maurice Blackman
- Re-Interpreting Shadow Material in an Ancient Greek Myth: Another Night: Medea / Kyriaki Frantzi
- John Gay and the Frame Play / Yvonne Noble
- Opera within Opera: Contexts for a Metastasian Interlude / Donald Bewley
- Theatrical Transformation, Media Superimposition and Scenic Reflection: Pictorial Qualities of Modern Theatre and the Hofmannsthal/Strauss Opera, Ariadne auf Naxos / Theresia Birkenhauer
- Pushkin in Love, or: A (Screen)Play within the Play. The Cinematic Potential of Romantic-Ironic Narration in Eugene Onegin / Erika Greber
- The Text within the Text, the Screen within the Screen: Multi-Layered Representations in Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet and Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet / Alessandro Abbate
- ‘Gotta Dance’ (in the Dark): Lars von Trier’s Critique of the Musical Genre / Ken Woodgate
- The Game of the Narrative: Kleist’s Fiction from a Game-Theoretical Perspective / Tim Mehigan
- French Beans and Mashed Potatoes: Agonistic Play and Symbolic Acting in Gottfried Keller’s Prose Fiction / Alexander Honold
- Playing with the Apparatus: Franz Kafka’s ‘In the Penal Colony’ and Barrie Kosky’s Interpretation for the Melbourne International Arts Festival / Ulrike Garde
- Notes on Contributors
- Index of Names.