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Author: Eli Rozik Publisher: University of Iowa Press ISBN: 1587294265 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 385
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The topic of the origins of theatre is one of the most controversial in theatre studies, with a long history of heated discussions and strongly held positions. In The Roots of Theatre, Eli Rozik enters the debate in a feisty way, offering not just another challenge to those who place theatre’s origins in ritual and religion but also an alternative theory of roots based on the cultural and psychological conditions that made the advent of theatre possible. Rozik grounds his study in a comprehensive review and criticism of each of the leading historical and anthropological theories. He believes that the quest for origins is essentially misleading because it does not provide any significant insight for our understanding of theatre. Instead, he argues that theatre, like music or dance, is a sui generis kind of human creativity—a form of thinking and communication whose roots lie in the spontaneous image-making faculty of the human psyche. Rozik’s broad approach to research lies within the boundaries of structuralism and semiotics, but he also utilizes additional disciplines such as psychoanalysis, neurology, sociology, play and game theory, science of religion, mythology, poetics, philosophy of language, and linguistics. In seeking the roots of theatre, what he ultimately defines is something substantial about the nature of creative thought—a rudimentary system of imagistic thinking and communication that lies in the set of biological, primitive, and infantile phenomena such as daydreaming, imaginative play, children’s drawing, imitation, mockery (caricature, parody), storytelling, and mythmaking.
Author: Francis Macdonald Cornford Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780266195023 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 270
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Excerpt from The Origin of Attic Comedy For the convenience of the reader who may be unable to carry in his head the plots and structure of the eleven plays, I have added a Synopsis at the end of the volume, giving a brief summary of the action, and indicating the occurrence of the ritual motives discussed in the text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Francis MacDonald Cornford
Author: Francis MacDonald Cornford
Author: Francis Macdonald Cornford
Author: 
Author: FRANCIS MACDONALD. CORNFORD
Author: Francis Macdonald Cornford
Author: Francis Macdonald Cornford
Author: Eli Rozik
Author: Francis Macdonald Cornford
Author: Francis Macdonald Cornford
Author: John D. Morgenstern