The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000U of Minnesota Press, 1. jan. 2002 - 347 sider Spanning a quarter of a century, the essays in this book rehearse, in the movement of memory and cross-reflection, an extensive career in theater. The work of Herbert Blau--his directing, writing, and criticism--has been a determining force during this period as theater encounters theory. |
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Side x
... , with its topography of appearance, always under suspicion, and the impossible prospect of ever relieving that—no more than a generation of anti- Oedipus or the lure of performative bodies has relieved us x Introduction.
... , with its topography of appearance, always under suspicion, and the impossible prospect of ever relieving that—no more than a generation of anti- Oedipus or the lure of performative bodies has relieved us x Introduction.
Side xiv
... appearance to an exponential power or—in the merger with simulacra: mediatized, commodified, the real disappearing into an abun- dance of dispossession—as the accumulative form or apotheosis of capi- tal itself, dominating everywhere ...
... appearance to an exponential power or—in the merger with simulacra: mediatized, commodified, the real disappearing into an abun- dance of dispossession—as the accumulative form or apotheosis of capi- tal itself, dominating everywhere ...
Side xvii
... appearance , now you see it now you don't , in my theorizing of performance . As if the instance were imminent — some years later , sick in Paris with the flu — I wrote the piece that , here , comes soon after Elsinore . “ A Valediction ...
... appearance , now you see it now you don't , in my theorizing of performance . As if the instance were imminent — some years later , sick in Paris with the flu — I wrote the piece that , here , comes soon after Elsinore . “ A Valediction ...
Side 3
... appearance. The old metaphor of the Theater of the World was fascinated with the play of appearance, but if it now seems overloaded with the play within the play, that is because the dominion of appearance is facilitated and augmented ...
... appearance. The old metaphor of the Theater of the World was fascinated with the play of appearance, but if it now seems overloaded with the play within the play, that is because the dominion of appearance is facilitated and augmented ...
Side 4
... appearance with the look of being looked at . And by the time of Beckett's Play , so far as the human presence was concerned , not entirely sure of that : “ Am I as much as ... being seen ? ” ( Shorter Plays , 157 ) . The terror of not ...
... appearance with the look of being looked at . And by the time of Beckett's Play , so far as the human presence was concerned , not entirely sure of that : “ Am I as much as ... being seen ? ” ( Shorter Plays , 157 ) . The terror of not ...
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2 The Impossible Takes a Little Time | 18 |
3 Spacing Out in the American Theater | 37 |
Rehearsing the Resistance | 53 |
5 A Dove in My Chimney | 62 |
An Analytic Scenario | 70 |
The Grail of the Voice | 118 |
Chills and Fever Mourning and the Vanities of the Sublime | 132 |
13 Readymade Desire | 199 |
From Tango Palace to Mud | 206 |
The Group Idea and Its Legacy | 215 |
New Music and Theater | 230 |
17 FlatOut Vision | 246 |
Sovereign Pleasure and the Baroque Subject in the Tragicomedies of John Fletcher | 265 |
Revising the Abyss | 281 |
The Insane Root | 307 |
9 The Dubious Spectacle of Collective Identity | 137 |
Subtext of a Syllabus for the Arts in America | 157 |
Educating the American Theater | 181 |
12 The Pipe Dreams of ONeill in the Age of Deconstruction | 189 |
Notes | 321 |
Previous Publications | 335 |
Index | 337 |
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