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The secret life of theater : on the nature and function of theatrical representation / Brian Kulick.
- 作者： Kulick, Brian.
- 出版： Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge c2019.
- 主題： Theater.
- ISBN： 9781138334588 (hbk.) 、 1138334588 (hbk.) 、 9781138334601 (pbk.) 、 113833460X (pbk.)
- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- 系統號： 005147382 | 機讀編目格式
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摘要註
"What is the secret DNA of theater? What makes it unique from its sister arts? Why was it invented? Why does it persist? And now, in such an advanced technological age, why do we still feel compelled to return to a mode of expression that was invented over two thousand years ago? These are some of the foundational questions that are asked in this study of theatre from its inception to today. The Secret Life of Theatre begins with a look at theatre's origins in Ancient Greece. Next, it moves on to examine the history and nature of theatre from Agamenon to Angels in America through theatre's use of stage directions, revealing the many unspoken languages that are employed to communicate with its audiences. Finally, it looks at theatre's ever shifting strategies of engendering fellow feeling through the use of emotion, allowing the form to become a rare space where one can feel a thought and think a feeling. In an age when many studies are concerned with the 'how' of theatre, this work returns us to theatre's essential 'why'. The Secret Life of Theatre suggests that by reframing the question, we can re-enchant this unique and ever-vital medium of expression."--Provided by publisher.
內容註
In praise of not knowing : an introduction --1. What we can know about the origins of theater, which is always less than we would like, and yet not grounds for despair -- 2. How great works work against our desire to know, and why the question should always exceed the answer -- 3. The problem with thinking we know a thing or two : or the rise of the answer at the expense of the question -- 4. The special providence of certain questions : or the necessity for the re-enchantment of theater -- Part I. The invention of the outside : on the nature and functions of theater -- 5. Borges and theater : What the great Argentine poet can tell us about the secret life of theater -- 6. Beneath Averroes' window : Borges' first clue ; the family resemblance of play, ritual, and theater -- 7. The story of Abu-al-Hasan and the house of painted wood : or Borges' second clue, the ascension of the ocular -- 8. From the mimetic to the meta-theatric : The four modalities of theatrical expression -- 9. The Companions of the Cave : Borges' third clue, on the necessity of thresholds -- 10. Anatomy of failure : Why the machine of theater breaks down -- 11. Recapitulation #1 : or toward the what of theater -- Part II. Nine and a half tableaux : theater's ek-static ability to bring what is hidden into view -- 12. Welcome to the Museum of Ek-Stasis : or when things "stand out" in theater 13. Exhibit one : Agamemnon redux : the optics of the tragic -- 14. Exhibit two : Abraham and Isaac : Difference, variance, and making time manifest -- 15. Exhibit three : Romeo and Juliet : Love and other spatial relations -- 16. Exhibit four : The Winter's Tale : seeing being -- 17. Exhibit five : Tartuffe : the not-so-secret life of inanimate objects -- 18. Exhibit six : Faust : The persistence of allegory -- 19. Exhibit seven : Woyzeck : reading other minds, or the discovery of subtext -- 20. Exhibit eight : The Three Sisters : The invention of the pause and intimations of the void -- 21. Exhibit nine : Galileo : "making strange" : the fine art of seeing otherwise -- 22. Exhibit under construction : Angels in America : seeing double -- 23. Recapitulation #2 : or toward the how of theater -- Part III. From Sophocles' urn to Wittengenstein's box : theater and the engendering of fellow-feeling throughout the ages -- 24. Brief introduction : theater's telos : the engendering of fellow-feeling -- 25. The ancients -- 26. The transition -- 27. The moderns -- 28. And now? -- 29. Recapitulation #3 : or toward the why of theater -- 30. Final thoughts on fellow-feeling and the meaning of theater.