| Description |
xii, 259 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Performance interventions |
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Performance interventions.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction : modernism and anti-theatricality / Alan Ackerman and Martin Puchner -- 2. Avant-Garde scenography and the frames of the theatre / Arnold Aronson -- 3. Clown shows : anti-theatricalist theatricalism in four twentieth-century plays / Elinor Fuchs -- 4. Anti-theatricality in twentieth-century opera / Herbert Lindenberger -- 5. 'All the frame's a stage' : (anti)-theatricality and cinematic modernism / Charlie Keil -- 6. Anti-theatricality and the limits of naturalism / Kirk Williams -- 7. Deploying/destroying the primitivist body in Hurston and Brecht / Elin Diamond -- 8. John Cage's living theatre / Marjorie Perloff -- 9. Mallarme, Maeterlinck and the symbolist Via Negativa of theatre / Patrick McGuinness -- 10. Narrative theatricality : Joseph Conrad's drama of the page / Rebecca L. Walkowitz -- 11. The curse of legitimacy / David Savran -- 12. Performing obscene modernism : theatrical censorship and the making of modern drama / Julie Stone Peters -- 13. Seeming, seeming : the illusion of enough / Herbert Blau |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Experimental drama -- History and criticism.
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Experimental theater -- History -- 20th century.
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Performing arts -- History -- 20th century.
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| Author |
Ackerman, Alan L. (Alan Louis)
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Puchner, Martin, 1969-
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| LC no. |
2005055291 |
| ISBN |
1403944911 (cloth) |
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9781403944917 (hbk.) |
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