Search Results for utopian theater

... utopian plays L’île des esclaves ( The Island of Slaves ) and L’île de la raison ( The Island of Reason ) constitute apologies for the theater when analyzed through the lens of early modern religious culture. Based on a close reading using the performance-studies concept of the scenario, this article...

...Michal Kobialka The “after theory” syndrome silently renounced historiography as radical thought and substituted a closed, retrospective framework to conceptualize the ontology of theater/performance history. In its postmodern/post-utopian universe, historicizing largely contents itself...

...Ellen R. Welch This essay examines the role of performance practices in the making of colonial history through an analysis of the first French-language theater piece staged in the New World, Marc Lescarbot's Théâtre de Neptune (1606). The form of performance in this work offers a radically...

...Heinz Politzer Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 HOW EPIC IS BERTOLT BRECHT’S EPIC THEATER? By HEINZPOLITZER When Bertolt Brecht died in East Berlin, on August 14, 1956, he left behind an impressive literary work, a new method...

...- eral editor of the Arden Shakespeare, Kastan has made an unequaled con- tribution to what, for want of a better word, may be called a post-poststruc- turalist approach to the Elizabethan theater. But if the book’s title (un)ambiguously accentuates the new...

... (1997), editor of A Companion to Shakespeare (1999), and gen- eral editor of the Arden Shakespeare, Kastan has made an unequaled con- tribution to what, for want of a better word, may be called a post-poststruc- turalist approach to the Elizabethan theater...

... of A Companion to Shakespeare (1999), and gen- eral editor of the Arden Shakespeare, Kastan has made an unequaled con- tribution to what, for want of a better word, may be called a post-poststruc- turalist approach to the Elizabethan theater...

... of A Companion to Shakespeare (1999), and gen- eral editor of the Arden Shakespeare, Kastan has made an unequaled con- tribution to what, for want of a better word, may be called a post-poststruc- turalist approach to the Elizabethan theater...

... as epic theater, Verfrem• dung, point of view, the lyrical persona, and versification. Strangely enough, Dickson fails almost entirely to account for Brecht the Sprachkimstler. This glar• ing omission has a negative effect on his treatment not only of the poetry (as it is bound...

...: a sustained essay on the role and necessity of utopian thinking today that makes up the book’s first half, a collection of pre- viously published articles on science fiction and utopia that make up the book’s second half, and various interventions throughout on every- thing from Thomas More to Philip K...

... a twentiethcentury utopian trajectory that reads these portraits of early modern women writers with pity and outrage. The images of Tudor and Stuart women writers narrated here will necessar- ily contrast with images of women writers of later centuries, including our- though she concedes that "these can...

... the appetite that would brand him a tyrant?5 The apparent incongruity in fact dramatizes Jannings’s own awkward transition from the theater to the screen. However appropri- ate to the stage, his acting before the camera becomes overly theatri- cal, reanimating the tension between the popular dramatic...

... in the Hispanic Review , the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies , and other journals. His essay “Maravall’s Post-Hegelian Roots” appeared in the September 2009 issue of MLQ . The Theater of Truth: The Ideology of (Neo)Baroque Aesthetics . By Egginton William . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press...

... theater, television drama, and early modern medicine, and she is writing a book on Shakespeare performances in Taiwan as well as constructing a Taiwan Shakespeare database. Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange . By Huang Alexander C. Y. . New York : Columbia University...

...- tity politics. Such tendencies can move quickly toward apocalyptic and/or utopian visions not only of history’s limits but of history’s end or of its poten- tially radical new beginnings from a blank slate. It would be wrong to define LaCapra as an unrepentant rational prag- matist who...

... and/or utopian visions not only of history’s limits but of history’s end or of its poten- tially radical new beginnings from a blank slate. It would be wrong to define LaCapra as an unrepentant rational prag- matist who constantly warns us of the dangers of giving in to our desires for redemption...

... move quickly toward apocalyptic and/or utopian visions not only of history’s limits but of history’s end or of its poten- tially radical new beginnings from a blank slate. It would be wrong to define LaCapra as an unrepentant rational prag- matist who constantly warns us of the dangers...

... distinctions in new, even “posthuman” ways that keep the door open for the scapegoating strategies and overidentifications of an anthropocentric iden- tity politics. Such tendencies can move quickly toward apocalyptic and/or utopian visions not only of history’s limits but of history’s end or of its poten...

... solidifying distinctions in new, even “posthuman” ways that keep the door open for the scapegoating strategies and overidentifications of an anthropocentric iden- tity politics. Such tendencies can move quickly toward apocalyptic and/or utopian visions not only of history’s limits but of history’s end...

... solidifying distinctions in new, even “posthuman” ways that keep the door open for the scapegoating strategies and overidentifications of an anthropocentric iden- tity politics. Such tendencies can move quickly toward apocalyptic and/or utopian visions not only of history’s limits but of history’s end...