Research Catalog

Title

Acts and apparitions : discourses on the real in performance practice and theory, 1990-2010 / Liz Tomlin.

Author

Tomlin, Liz

Publication

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Details

Description

xi, 226 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

'Acts and Apparitions' examines how new performance practices from the 1990s and the present day have been driven by questions of the real and the ensuing political implications of the concept's rapidly disintegrating authority.

Subject

• 1900 - 2099
• Drama > 20th century > History and criticism
• Drama > 21st century > History and criticism
• Realism
• Theater and philosophy
• Authors and theater

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-221) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I: The discursive act. 1. Discourses of resistance: representation and the real in the twentieth-century avant-gardes -- 2. Deconstructing the postdramatic: questions of mimesis, authorship and representation -- Part II: Apparitions of the real. 3. Quoting quotations: citational theory and contemporary characterisation -- 4. Representing the real: verbatim practice in a sceptical age -- 5. Re-membering the real: experiential challenges to the medium of theatrical representation -- 6. From spect-actor to corporate player: reconfigurations of twenty-first-century audiences.

ISBN

• 0719083729
• 9780719083723

OCLC

• 825047293
• SCSB-13288802

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library