| Description |
1 online resource (323 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history |
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Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
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| Contents |
Will the Real Cogito Please Stand Up? -- Ancient Specters (Prehistoric, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman) -- Phantom Limbs, Unconscious Zombies, and Multiple Selves -- Shakespeare's Roman Shades (Titus Andronicus and Titus) -- Theatrical Elements in the Mind's Eye -- Ghosts of Hamlet Onscreen -- Selective Spirits in Evolution -- Noh Desires and The Others -- Brain Stages |
| Summary |
Ghost Theatres of the Brain focuses on the staging of Self and Other as phantom characters inside the brain (in the "mind's eye," as Hamlet says), exploring the brain's anatomical evolution from animal drives to human consciousness to divine aspirations, through distinctive cultural expressions in stage and screen technologies. Even-numbered chapters look at specific dramas with ghost characters from the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans to Shakespeare, Japanese Noh, modern drama, and recent films. Odd-numbered chapters examine various intersections of psychoanalytic and neuroscientific theories to explore the brain's inner theatre, regarding ghosts and gods performed onstage and onscreen, as extensions of and connections between different brains in particular cultures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ghosts in literature.
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Drama -- History and criticism.
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Ghosts in motion pictures.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Drama
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Ghosts in literature
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Ghosts in motion pictures
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005051450 |
| ISBN |
9781403983299 |
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1403983291 |
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1281369918 |
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9781281369918 |
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140397215X |
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9781403972156 |
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