The theatre of death the uncanny in mimesis : Tadeusz Kantor, Aby Warburg, and an iconology of the actor / Mischa Twitchin.
| Author/creator | Twitchin, Mischa |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016] |
| Description | xiii, 336 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Performance philosophy Performance philosophy. ^A1258540 |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: Part I -- 1. Thinking of the Dead Through a Concept of Theatre (The Dead Class) -- 1. Analogy and Aporia -- 2. Metaphor -- 3. Seance -- 4. Shock -- 5. Major and Minor -- 6. Art and Truth -- 7. Reality and Autonomy -- 8. Pathos -- 9. Tragedy -- 10. Elimination -- Part II -- 2. Precedents (Craig and Artaud, Maeterlinck and Witkiewicz) -- 3. Survivals and the Uncanny -- 4. Superstition and an Iconology -- Part III -- 5. What Do We See in Theatre: In Theory? -- 1. "To Establish that Theatre Thinks..." (Badiou): Thought and Event -- 2. "Through the Medium of its Concept" (Adorno): Theatre and Aesthetics -- 3. "Often What a Word Expresses..." (Heidegger): Theatre and Theory -- 6. A Question of Appearance: Enter the Actor -- 1. In the Mirror of the Uncanny (Freud and Vernant) -- 2. "As if For the First Time..." (Kantor) -- 3. "A Sign Charged With Signs..." (Genet) -- 4. In the Image of the Photograph (Barthes, Heidegger, and Nancy) -- Part IV -- 7. Tadeusz Kantor: An Avant-Garde of Death -- 1. What Is Still to Be Remembered (Imagined or Conceived) of the Cricot 2: Between Manifestos and Objects, Actors and Photographs? -- 2. How are the Conditions of Production of the Cricot 2 Remembered Through Exhibitions by the Cricoteka? -- 3. What Returns in the Historical Impasse Between Formalism and Naturalism? -- 4. "Once Again I Am on Stage..." How Is Kantor's Theatre of Death Informed by the Thought of Aesthetic Demarcation (as Distinct from Participation)? -- 5. How Might the Past of Kantor's Theatre (with the Example of the Cricoteka as a "Living Archive") Resist the Claims of What Is Called Post-Modem? -- 6. How Do Claims for the Autonomy of Art Resist Time for its Historical Specificity -- Whether as Avant-Garde or Anachronistic? -- 7. In Place of a Conclusion: How Might "The Return of Odysseus" Offer mi Image of and for the Theatre of Death? In the Pathos of "Return", How Might Kantor's Own Appearance "on Stage" Offer Testimony to the Short Twentieth Century?. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-327) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016956570 |
| ISBN | 9781137478719 (hbk. : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 1137478713 |
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