Reality principles : from the absurd to the virtual /

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Author / Creator:Blau, Herbert, author.
Imprint:Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2011.
Description:1 online resource (292 pages)
Language:English
Subject:Theater -- Philosophy.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
Performing Arts.
Theater -- Philosophy.
Theater
Ästhetik
Theatertheorie
Theater.
Ästhetik.
Theatertheorie.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12012436
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ISBN:9780472027903
0472027905
1283159929
9781283159920
9786613159922
6613159921
9780472071517
0472071513
9780472051519
0472051512
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:This title gathers essays by esteemed scholar and theatre practitioner Herbert Blau covering a range of topics. The book offers a panoramic view of Herbert Blau's perspectives on life and the imitation of life on stage.
Other form:Print version: Blau, Herbert. Reality principles. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2011 9780472071517
Standard no.:9786613159922
10.3998/mpub.3119291
Table of Contents:
  • Relevance: the shadow of a magnitude
  • The faith-based initiative of the theater of the absurd
  • The soul-complex of Strindberg: suffocation, scopophilia, and the seer
  • From the dreamwork of secession to orgies mysteries theater
  • Performing the chaosmos: farts, follicles, mathematics, and delirium in deleuze
  • Seeming, seeming: the illusion of enough
  • Who's there? community of the question
  • The emotional memory of directing
  • The commodius vicus of Beckett: vicissitudes of the arts in the science of affliction
  • Among the deepening shades: the Beckettian moment(um) and the Brechtian arrest
  • Apnea and true illusion: breath(less) in Beckett
  • Art and crisis: homeland security and the noble savage
  • Ground zero: the original vision (may 16, 2008)
  • Blessings to the pope and the witch
  • The pathos of dialogue: unable to speak a word
  • Thinking history, history thinking
  • Why "what history?"
  • The human nature of the bot
  • Virtually yours: presence, liveness, lessness
  • Auto archive.