The Problem Of The Actress In Modern German Theater And Thought

Author : S. E. Jackson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Actresses
ISBN : 9781640140868

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The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theater and Thought by S. E. Jackson Pdf

Around 1900, German and Austrian actresses had allure and status, apparent autonomy, and unconventional lifestyles. They presented a complex problem socially and aesthetically, one tied to the so-called Woman Question and to the contested status of modernity. For modernists, the actress's socioeconomic mobility and defiance of gender norms opened space to contest social and moral strictures, and her mutability offered a means to experiment with identity. For conservatives, on the other hand, female performance could support antifeminist convictions and validate masculine authority by positing woman as nothing but a false surface shaped by productive male forces. Influential male-authored texts from the period thereby disavowed female subjectivity per se by equating "woman" and "actress." S. E. Jackson establishes the actress as a key figure in a discursive matrix surrounding modernity, gender, and subjectivity. Her central argument is that because the figure of the actress bridged such varied fields of thought, women who were actresses had a consequential impact that resonated in and far beyond the theater - but has not been explored. Examining archival sources such as theater reviews and writing by actresses in direct relation to canonical aesthetic and philosophical texts, The Problem of the Actress reconstructs the constitutive role that womenplayed on and off the stage in shaping not only modernist theater aesthetics and performance practices, but also influential strains of modern thought.

Author : Martin Wagner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487509576

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A Stage for Debate by Martin Wagner Pdf

A Stage for Debate presents a detailed analysis of the repertoire of the leading German-language stage of the nineteenth century, Vienna’s Burgtheater. The book explores the extent to which the Burgtheater repertoire contributed to important political and cultural debates on individual liberty, the role of women in society, and the understanding of national and regional identity. The relevance of the Burgtheater as a forum for political debate is assessed not by the degree to which the performed plays transgressed established norms, but by the range of positions that were voiced on a given topic. Martin Wagner investigates the roughly 1,000 plays from across Europe that were introduced to the Burgtheater’s repertoire between 1814 and 1867 by combining a general overview with detailed interpretations of especially successful plays. Wagner reveals that the Burgtheater was significantly more involved in contemporary debates than the stereotype of this stage as an artistically refined but apolitical institution suggests. Drawing from theatre studies and German and Austrian studies more broadly, A Stage for Debate revises the history of one of Europe’s leading theatres.

Author : Martin Esslin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : English drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037718926

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The Genius of the German Theater by Martin Esslin Pdf

German plays from the mid-20th century.

Author : Margaret Herzfeld-Sander
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0826402968

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Essays on German Theater by Margaret Herzfeld-Sander Pdf

It is against this background of the theater's high prestige as a forum for ideas, as the summit of the literary arts, as the place where all the arts coalesce in a Wagnerian 'Gesamtkunstwerk' or dialectically oppose and ironize each other in Brechtian epic 'alienation, ' of the drama as a method of thought, of concrete philosophizing, that the astounding wealth of critical and theoretical writings about drama and theater that the German-speaking world has produced over the last two hundred and fifty years must be seen and appreciated.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:221248236

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Masterpieces of the Modern German Theatre by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gabrielle H. Cody,Evert Sprinchorn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015064951430

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The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama by Gabrielle H. Cody,Evert Sprinchorn Pdf

"The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama covers the period from 1860 to the present. ... The distinctive feature of this encyclopedia is the emphasis it places on the cultural context of dramatic works and their authors."--Preface.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1594 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : United States
ISBN : CORNELL:31924106546983

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The Independent by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dirk Delabastita,Jozef de Vos,Paul Franssen
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874130042

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Shakespeare and European Politics by Dirk Delabastita,Jozef de Vos,Paul Franssen Pdf

"This volume's main focus is on the ways in which, over the past 400 years, Shakespeare has played a role of significance within a European framework, particularly where a series of political events and ideologically based developments were concerned, such as the early modern wars of religion, the emergence of "the nation" during the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the First and Second World Wars, the process of European unification during the 1990s, the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, and Britain's participation in the war in Iraq." "The whole of the collection and particularly the opening section clearly invites a European and even a global perspective." "This book convincingly demonstrates that Shakespeare, both at the level of his meaning in his own time and at that of his reception in later ages, should no longer be studied only in relation to particular nations, but as Dirk Delabastita argues, also at various supranational levels." --Book Jacket.

Author : William Livingston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172131079778

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The Independent Reflector, Or, Weekly Essays on Sundry Important Subjects, More Particularly Adapted to the Province of New-York by William Livingston Pdf

Author : John J. Winkler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780691206486

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Rehearsals of Manhood by John J. Winkler Pdf

"When John J. Winkler died in 1990, he left a substantially complete manuscript containing the final version of the project he had undertaken in the last decade of his life: an original interpretation of the development and meaning of ancient Greek drama. That manuscript was based on The Martin Classical Lectures at Oberlin College, which Winkler delivered in September of 1988. The present text has been edited and updated by classicists David Halperin, Winkler's literary executor, and Kirk Ormand, Winkler's student and an expert on Greek drama. Rehearsals of Manhood, the final work of a widely recognized and celebrated classical scholar, proposes an entirely new account of Greek drama providing an explanation of the social place of Greek drama and its relation to the gendered organization of Athenian social life. Winkler interprets drama as a secular manhood ritual, a public aesthetic undertaking focused on the initiation of boys into manhood and, specifically, on the training, the display, and the representation of young male warriors. According to Winkler, the chorus of both tragedy and comedy was composed of young Athenian men of citizen status, about eighteen to twenty years of age, who were undergoing military training in order to prepare themselves for the task of warfare; they danced on a rectangular dance floor in a rectangular formation that recalled the arrangement of the infantry phalanx; they accompanied plays that often highlighted scenarios of risk faced by young men on the verge of adulthood; and they performed in a theater whose seating was arranged to display the corporate body of the male citizenry as a whole, both its democratic equality and its hierarchical ranking according to degrees of excellence. Winkler does not offer new interpretations of the texts of Greek plays but a new account of how the very practice of dramatic performance fit into the social life and gender politics of the Athenian state"--

Author : Daniel O'Quinn
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781512823127

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Corrosive Solace by Daniel O'Quinn Pdf

In Corrosive Solace, Daniel O’Quinn argues that the loss of the American colonies instantiated a complex reorganization in sociability and politics in the British metropole that has had long-lasting effects on British national and imperial culture, which can be seen and analyzed within its performative repertoire. He examines how the analysis of feeling or affect can be deployed to address the inchoate causal relation between historical events and their mediation. In this sense, Corrosive Solace’s goals are twofold: first, to outline the methodologies necessary for dealing with the affective recognition of historical crisis; and second, to make the historically familiar strange again, and thus make visible key avenues for discussion that have remained dormant. Both of these objectives turn on recognition: How do we theorize the implicit affective recognition of crisis in a distant historical moment? And how do we recognize what we, in our present moment, cannot discern? Corrosive Solace addresses this complex cultural reorientation by attending less to “new” cultural products than to the theoretical and historical problems posed by looking at the transformation of “old” plays and modes of performance. These “old” plays—Shakespeare, post-Restoration comedy and she-tragedy—were a vital plank of the cultural patrimony, so much of O’Quinn’s analysis lies in how tradition was recovered and redirected to meet urgent social and political needs. Across the arc of Corrosive Solace, he tracks how the loss of the American War forced Britons to refashion the repertoire of cultural signs and social dispositions that had subtended its first empire in the Atlantic world in a way more suited to its emergent empire in South Asia.

Author : Forrest Izard
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547637837

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Heroines of the Modern Stage by Forrest Izard Pdf

"Heroines of the Modern Stage" by Forrest Izard. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Edward Jewitt Wheeler,Isaac Kaufman Funk,William Seaver Woods
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000020208295

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Literary Digest: a Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World by Edward Jewitt Wheeler,Isaac Kaufman Funk,William Seaver Woods Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Drama
ISBN : UFL:31262051958006

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Modern Drama by Anonim Pdf

Author : H. E. L. Mellersh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Chronology, Historical
ISBN : UOM:39015047455988

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Chronology of World History: The modern world, 1901-1998 by H. E. L. Mellersh Pdf

Provides information on over 70,000 events from prehistory to the present.