Theatre of Death – The Uncanny in Mimesis

Tadeusz Kantor, Aby Warburg, and an Iconology of the Actor

AvMischa Twitchin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

The abyss which separates the actors from the audience like the dead from the living…” If the relation between the living and the dead can be thought of in terms of an analogy with ancient theatre, how might avant-garde theatre be thought of in terms of this same relation “today”?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-12-20
Mått:148 x 210 x 25 mm
Vikt:598 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Performance Philosophy
Antal sidor:336
Upplaga:16001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137478719

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Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion
Teater inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Mischa Twitchin is a lecturer in Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Besides his academic work, he is a founder-member of the performance collective Shunt.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. Three instances of present readings of past writings.- Part I. Thinking of the dead through a concept of theatre (The Dead Class).- Part II. Chapter 1. Precedents (Craig and Artaud, Maeterlinck and Witkiewicz).- Chapter 2. Survivals and the uncanny.- Chapter 3. Superstition and an iconology.- Part III. Chapter 1. What do we see in theatre – in theory?.- Chapter 2. A question of appearance – enter the actor.- Part IV. Tadeusz Kantor – An avant-garde of death.- Bibliography.