| Description |
1 online resource (280 pages) |
| Series |
Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology Ser |
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Palgrave studies in literary anthropology.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Series Editors' Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction to Theatrical Cosmo-logic -- Anthropology and the Theatre -- The Spectaculum: Preliminary Remarks -- Boxes -- Dramatizing Theatricality: Natasha Rostova's Gaze -- Boxes: The Logic of Aesthetic Authority -- An Event-That-Models -- References -- 2 Aesth-Ethics -- An Abstract Machine -- On Virtue -- An Ethical Triangle -- References -- 3 The Spectaculum -- Space-Ification -- Syntax Semiotics -- Ethical Ostentation -- Boxes: Back to the Mythical Event -- Iteration: Receiving the Torah -- References |
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4 Epilogue: Prostration -- Against Hypermedia -- Wagner: Foreshadowing Theoretical Sovereignty -- Sacred: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty -- References -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
This book offers a new mythic perspective on the secret of the allure and survival of a current-archaic institution--the Western theatre--in an era of diverse technological media. Central to the theory is the spectaculum--a stage "world" that mirrors a monotheistic cosmic order. Tova Gamliel here not only alerts the reader to the possibility of the spectaculum's existence, but also illuminates its various structural dimensions: the cosmological, ritual, and sociological. Its cosmo-logical meaning is a Judeo-Christian monotheistic consciousness of non-randomness, an exemplary order of the world that the senses perceive. The ritualmeaning denotes the centrality of the spectaculum, as the theatre repeatedly reenacts the mythical and paradigmatic event of Biblical revelation. Its social meaning concerns any charismatic social theory that is anchored in the epitomic structure of social sovereignty--stage and audience--that the Western theatre advances in an era characterized by hypermedia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Theater -- Philosophy.
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Theater -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030281281 |
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3030281280 |
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