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 xviii
... politics in ways it had not foreseen . As for a politics of performance , that may define itself , too , in unan- ticipated ways , as it did for me in San Francisco when in what appeared to be a vacuum ( not only in San Francisco ) , I ...
... politics in ways it had not foreseen . As for a politics of performance , that may define itself , too , in unan- ticipated ways , as it did for me in San Francisco when in what appeared to be a vacuum ( not only in San Francisco ) , I ...
Side xxiii
... political or fantastic, with attention in the process to remote and peculiar forms that have not only become increasingly familiar but seem part of the world- wide circulation of commodities. Meanwhile, as we look to other cul- tures ...
... political or fantastic, with attention in the process to remote and peculiar forms that have not only become increasingly familiar but seem part of the world- wide circulation of commodities. Meanwhile, as we look to other cul- tures ...
Side 2
... politics or the current state of the art, whatever it has come to be, with how it materializes to begin with from whatever it is it is not. That there is something other than theater, prior to it, by whatever name—life, reality ...
... politics or the current state of the art, whatever it has come to be, with how it materializes to begin with from whatever it is it is not. That there is something other than theater, prior to it, by whatever name—life, reality ...
Side 6
... politics of the sixties. That impotency could be so activist was, for some interested in a political drama, as inexplicable then as it is today in much cultural critique, particularly in the ideological assault on the paradoxes and ten ...
... politics of the sixties. That impotency could be so activist was, for some interested in a political drama, as inexplicable then as it is today in much cultural critique, particularly in the ideological assault on the paradoxes and ten ...
Side 8
... politics in the in- satiable suction upon the social, which collapses the ground of a public life. If we should desire to re-create it—whether at the utopian horizon of postmodern thought or out of modernist nostalgia for the world in ...
... politics in the in- satiable suction upon the social, which collapses the ground of a public life. If we should desire to re-create it—whether at the utopian horizon of postmodern thought or out of modernist nostalgia for the world in ...
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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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