Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A Mirror of World Theatre II
Author: Shattering Hamlet's Mirror
Author: Marvin CarlsonPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472119850
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Exploring the historical antecedents and mimetic dimensions of "Theater of the Real"
Shattering Hamlet's Mirror
Author: Marvin CarlsonPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472121863
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Theatrical playing, Hamlet famously averred, holds a mirror up to nature. But unlike the reflections in the mirror, the theater’s images are composed of real objects, most notably bodies, that have an independent existence outside the world of reflection. Throughout Western theater history there have been occasions when the reality behind the illusion was placed on display. In recent years theaters in Europe and North America have begun calling attention to the real in their work—presenting performers who did not create characters and who may not even have been actors, but who appeared on stage as themselves; texts created not by dramatic authors but drawn from real life; and real environments sometimes shared by actors and performers and containing real elements accessible to both. These practices, argues Marvin Carlson, constitute a major shift in the practical and phenomenological world of theater, and a turning away from mimesis, which has been at the heart of the theater since Aristotle. Shattering Hamlet's Mirror: Theatre and Reality examines recent and contemporary work by such groups as Rimini Protokoll, Societas Raffaelo Sanzio, the Gob Squad, Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, and Foundry Theatre, while revealing the deep antecedents of today’s theater, placing it in useful historical perspective. While many may consider it a post-postmodern phenomenon, the “theater of the real,” as it turns out, has very deep roots.
The World in the Mirror of the Theatre
Author: A Mirror in the Roadway
Author: Morris DicksteinPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400826667
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In a famous passage in The Red and the Black, the French writer Stendhal described the novel as a mirror being carried along a roadway. In the twentieth century this was derided as a naïve notion of realism. Instead, modern writers experimented with creative forms of invention and dislocation. Deconstructive theorists went even further, questioning whether literature had any real reference to a world outside its own language, while traditional historians challenged whether novels gave a trustworthy representation of history and society. In this book, Morris Dickstein reinterprets Stendhal's metaphor and tracks the different worlds of a wide array of twentieth-century writers, from realists like Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather, through modernists like Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett, to wildly inventive postwar writers like Saul Bellow, Günter Grass, Mary McCarthy, George Orwell, Philip Roth, and Gabriel García Márquez. Dickstein argues that fiction will always yield rich insight into its subject, and that literature can also be a form of historical understanding. Writers refract the world through their forms and sensibilities. He shows how the work of these writers recaptures--yet also transforms--the life around them, the world inside them, and the universe of language and feeling they share with their readers. Through lively and incisive essays directed to general readers as well as students of literature, Dickstein redefines the literary landscape--a landscape in which reading has for decades been devalued by society and distorted by theory. Having begun with a reconsideration of realism, the book concludes with several essays probing the strengths and limitations of a historical approach to literature and criticism.
PQ'95, PQ'99
Author: Marie BílkováPublisher:
ISBN: 9788070081181
Category : Theaters
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Dramatic Mirror and Theatre World
Author: A Mirror of World Theatre
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9788070080504
Category : Prague Quadrennial
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Not Just a Mirror. Looking for the Political Theatre Today
Author: Florian MalzacherPublisher:
ISBN: 9783895813788
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Pedro Calderón de la Barca and the World Theatre in Early Modern Europe
Author: Rasmus VangshardtPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501517023
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Rasmus Vangshardt offers an original interpretation of one of the most famous images of literary history, the theatrum mundi. By applying methods of comparative literature, hispanic studies, and theology, he reconsiders the world theatre’s historical peak in early modern Europe in general and the Spanish Golden Age in particular. The author presents a new close reading of Pedro Calderón’s El gran teatro del mundo (c. 1633–36) and outlines the historical and systematic framework for a theatrum mundi of celebration. This concept entails using art to justify human existence in the face of changing conceptions of the cosmos: an early modern aesthetic theodicy and a justification of the world in that liminal space between drama and ritual. By discussing historiographical theories of early modern Europe, especially those of Hans Blumenberg and Bruno Latour, and through conversations with Shakespearean drama and Spanish Golden Age classics, Vangshardt also argues that the theatrum mundi of celebration questions traditional assumptions of great divides between the Middle Ages and Early Modernity and challenges theories of a European-wide early modern sense of crisis.