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Dark matter : invisibility in drama, theater, and performance / Andrew Sofer.

Title
Dark matter : invisibility in drama, theater, and performance / Andrew Sofer.
Author
Sofer, Andrew, 1964-
Publication
Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2013]

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Description
x, 229 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
Physicists have discovered that the vast majority of the universe's mass is constituted by what remains transparent. So far, this mysterious 'dark matter' can only be traced by its gravitational effects on visible matter. Taking up this analogy, theatre scholar Andrew Sofer outlines a fresh theoretical framework and critical vocabulary for examining the invisible and how it continually structures and focuses an audience's theatrical experience.
Series Statement
Theater: theory/text/performance
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books.
Subject
  • Offstage action (Drama)
  • Presence (Philosophy)
  • English drama > History and criticism
  • American drama > History and criticism
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-199) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
How to do things with demons: conjuring performatives in Doctor Faustus -- Quantum mechanicals: desiring bottom in A midsummer night's dream -- Unmasking women: The rover and sexual signification on the Restoration stage -- Unbecoming acts: power, performance, and the self-consuming body in Tennessee Williams's Suddenly last summer -- Bugs in the mind: The archbishop's ceiling and Arthur Miller's prismatic drama -- Invisible wounds: rehearsing trauma on the contemporary stage.
ISBN
  • 9780472072040 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0472072048 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780472052042 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0472052047 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780472029686 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2013026614
OCLC
  • 844308402
  • SCSB-12894587
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library