Staging Desire

Staging Desire
Title Staging Desire PDF eBook
Author Kim Marra
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 420
Release 2002
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780472067497

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Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time

Kierkegaard and the Staging of Desire

Kierkegaard and the Staging of Desire
Title Kierkegaard and the Staging of Desire PDF eBook
Author Carl S. Hughes
Publisher Fordham Univ Press
Pages 241
Release 2014-07-02
Genre Religion
ISBN 0823257274

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Theology in the modern era often assumes that the consummate form of theological discourse is objective prose—ignoring or condemning apophatic traditions and the spiritual eros that drives them. For too long, Kierkegaard has been read along these lines as a progenitor of twentieth-century neo-orthodoxy and a stern critic of the erotic in all its forms. In contrast, Hughes argues that Kierkegaard envisions faith fundamentally as a form of infinite, insatiable eros. He depicts the essential purpose of Kierkegaard’s writing as to elicit ever-greater spiritual desire, not to provide the satisfactions of doctrine or knowledge. Hughes’s argument revolves around close readings of provocative, disparate, and (in many cases) little-known Kierkegaardian texts. The thread connecting all of these texts is that they each conjure up some sort of performative “stage setting,” which they invite readers to enter. By analyzing the theological function of these texts, the book sheds new light on the role of the aesthetic in Kierkegaard’s authorship, his surprising affinity for liturgy and sacrament, and his overarching effort to conjoin eros for God with this-worldly love.

Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama

Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama
Title Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama PDF eBook
Author Wendy Sutherland
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 277
Release 2017-05-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 131705086X

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Focusing on eighteenth-century cultural productions, Wendy Sutherland examines how representations of race in philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, drama, and court painting influenced the construction of a white bourgeois German self. Sutherland positions her work within the framework of the transatlantic slave trade, showing that slavery, colonialism, and the triangular trade between Europe, West Africa, and the Caribbean function as the global stage on which German bourgeois dramas by Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler, Ernst Lorenz Rathlef, and Theodor Körner (and a novella by Heinrich von Kleist on which Körner's play was based) were performed against a backdrop of philosophical and anthropological influences. Plays had an important role in educating the rising bourgeois class in morality, Sutherland argues, with fathers and daughters offered as exemplary moral figures in contrast to the depraved aristocracy. At the same time, black female protagonists in nontraditional dramas represent the boundaries of physical beauty and marriage eligibility while also complicating ideas of moral beauty embodied in the concept of the beautiful soul. Her book offers convincing evidence that the eighteenth-century German stage grappled with the representation of blackness during the Age of Goethe, even though the German states were neither colonial powers nor direct participants in the slave trade.

Staging the Gaze

Staging the Gaze
Title Staging the Gaze PDF eBook
Author Barbara Freedman
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 268
Release 1991
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780801497377

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Staging Domesticity

Staging Domesticity
Title Staging Domesticity PDF eBook
Author Wendy Wall
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 312
Release 2002-01-10
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780521808491

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Interprets plays in light of their representations of domestic life in the early modern period.

Staging of Classical Drama around 2000

Staging of Classical Drama around 2000
Title Staging of Classical Drama around 2000 PDF eBook
Author Alena Sarkissian
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages 240
Release 2009-03-26
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1443809276

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Classical drama on the modern stage as a cultural and political phenomenon is scholarly trailed since the 1950s and 60s and intensified in the last third of the twentieth century. The evidence is being extensively documented, pioneered by Walton (1987) and McDonald (1992) and subsequently developed by collaborative research projects which include published databases. It is clear from the work of these projects that performance of classical drama is a major feature in all types of theatre – avant-garde and experimental, student, international and fringe, epic and classical, commercial, popular and canonical. This means that it is closely intertwined with the politics of locale, environment and geography as well as of language, translation and culture. Each of the essays has a specialised contribution to make. However, the total impact of the whole section will be even greater than the sum of the parts because the authors not only intersect in their discussions of common concerns in modern performance of ancient drama but also provide case studies that will add to the knowledge base and critical acumen of everyone working in the field.

Staging Black Feminisms

Staging Black Feminisms
Title Staging Black Feminisms PDF eBook
Author Lynette Goddard
Publisher Springer
Pages 233
Release 2007-04-12
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0230801447

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Staging Black Feminisms explores the development and principles of black British women's plays and performance since the late Twentieth century. Using contemporary performance theory to explore key themes, it offers close textual readings and production analysis of a range of plays, performance poetry and live art works by practitioners.