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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Simon Shepherd; Mick Wallis |
| ISBN: | 041523493X 9780415234931 0415234948 9780415234948 |
| OCLC Number: | 54500510 |
| Description: | vii, 262 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | PART ONE: A GENEALOGY Drama and Theatre as university subjects Drama and the literary tradition History, theatre, society The essence of drama Women, theatre and the ethics of the academy Performance, art and the avant garde The rise of Performance Studies Performance studies: some basic concepts Postmodernism and performance Recent mappings of drama-theatre-performance PART TWO: KEYWORDS action aleatory catharsis character, mask, person defamiliarisation and alienation embodiment empathy interculturalism kinaesthetics mimesis performativity presence and representation semiotics and phenomenology. |
| Series Title: | New critical idiom. |
| Responsibility: | Simon Shepherd and Mick Wallis. |
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Abstract:
This book examines the history and use of the terms 'Drama', 'theatre' and performance' and investigates the different philosophies, politics, languages and institutions with which they are associated. Analyse attitudes to drama, theatre and performance at different historical junctures. xplore and contextualise the institutionalisation of drama as a university subject, then the emergence of performance' as practice, theory and academic discipline. Discuss crucial terms such as action, alienation, catharsis, character, empathy, interculturalism, mimesis, presence or representation in a substantial 'keywords' section.
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- Drama.
- Theater.
- Théâtre (Genre littéraire)
- Théâtre.
- Toneel.
- Acteren.
- Performances.
- Performance <Künste>
- Aufführung.
- Englisch.
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