The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000U of Minnesota Press, 01/01/2002 - 347 من الصفحات Spanning a quarter of a century, the essays in this book rehearse, in the movement of memory and cross-reflection, an extensive career in theater. The work of Herbert Blau--his directing, writing, and criticism--has been a determining force during this period as theater encounters theory. |
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الصفحة ix
... opening essay on, a view of the theater so insistently ontological. If that remains the egregious reflex of a hopeless essentialism, the fascination of theater for me is still in the mystery of its emergence, ix Introduction.
... opening essay on, a view of the theater so insistently ontological. If that remains the egregious reflex of a hopeless essentialism, the fascination of theater for me is still in the mystery of its emergence, ix Introduction.
الصفحة xxiv
... remains dubious through it all is the prospect of collectivity, which when it does emerge is not—as during or after wars of national liberation—the salutary thing we thought it to be. My own thinking about this began years ago, around ...
... remains dubious through it all is the prospect of collectivity, which when it does emerge is not—as during or after wars of national liberation—the salutary thing we thought it to be. My own thinking about this began years ago, around ...
الصفحة 10
... remains of the most exhausted illusions . ” 8 As it turns out , Between the Acts , with its parodistic history of English drama , written and directed by the lesbian Miss La Trobe , culminates in a sequence that , in mirroring the ...
... remains of the most exhausted illusions . ” 8 As it turns out , Between the Acts , with its parodistic history of English drama , written and directed by the lesbian Miss La Trobe , culminates in a sequence that , in mirroring the ...
الصفحة 11
... remains, and ever will, what all ideological struggle is about. That is the burden of the last book I have published, To All Appear- ances, which moves from ontology to ideology and (as in Marx's camera obscura) its inseparability from ...
... remains, and ever will, what all ideological struggle is about. That is the burden of the last book I have published, To All Appear- ances, which moves from ontology to ideology and (as in Marx's camera obscura) its inseparability from ...
الصفحة 14
... remains the tragic form. It is surely to be expected that, along with theo- ry's turn back to ethics and aesthetics, tragedy itself—shameful site of Oedipus in the critique of phallogocentricism—will also have to be re- assessed, for it ...
... remains the tragic form. It is surely to be expected that, along with theo- ry's turn back to ethics and aesthetics, tragedy itself—shameful site of Oedipus in the critique of phallogocentricism—will also have to be re- assessed, for it ...
المحتوى
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2 The Impossible Takes a Little Time | 18 |
3 Spacing Out in the American Theater | 37 |
Rehearsing the Resistance | 53 |
5 A Dove in My Chimney | 62 |
An Analytic Scenario | 70 |
The Grail of the Voice | 118 |
Chills and Fever Mourning and the Vanities of the Sublime | 132 |
13 Readymade Desire | 199 |
From Tango Palace to Mud | 206 |
The Group Idea and Its Legacy | 215 |
New Music and Theater | 230 |
17 FlatOut Vision | 246 |
Sovereign Pleasure and the Baroque Subject in the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher | 265 |
Revising the Abyss | 281 |
The Insane Root | 307 |
9 The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity | 137 |
Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America | 157 |
Educating the American Theater | 181 |
12 The Pipe Dreams of ONeill in the Age of Deconstruction | 189 |
Notes | 321 |
Previous Publications | 335 |
Index | 337 |
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