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Author Tomlin, Liz, author

Title Acts and apparitions : discourses on the real in performance practice and theory, 1990-2010 / Liz Tomlin
Published Manchester : Manchester univ press, 2013
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013

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 MELB  792.028 Tom/Aaa  AVAILABLE
Description xi, 226 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. I The discursive act -- 1.Discourses of resistance: representation and the real in the twentieth-century avant-gardes -- 2.Deconstructing the postdramatic: questions of mimesis, authorship and representation -- pt. II Apparitions of the real -- 3.Quoting quotations: citational theory and contemporary characterisation -- 4.Representing the real: verbatim practice in a sceptical age -- 5.Re-membering the real: experiential challenges to the medium of theatrical representation -- 6.From spect-actor to corporate player: reconfigurations of twenty-first-century audiences
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Authors and theater.
Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Drama -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Performing arts -- Philosophy.
Performing arts.
Poststructuralism.
Realism.
Reality in art.
Theater and philosophy.
ISBN 0719083729 (hardback)
9780719083723 (hardback)