Bodied Spaces : Phenomenology and Performance in Contemporary Drama

Bodied Spaces : Phenomenology and Performance in Contemporary Drama /

"At me too someone is looking ..."--Samuel Beckett, Waiting for GodotIn a venturesome study of corporeality and perception in contemporary drama, Stanton B. Garner, Jr., turns this awareness of the spectator's gaze back upon itself. His book takes up two of drama's most essential...

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Main Author: Garner, Stanton (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2019
Subjects:
Movement (Acting)
Theater audiences > Psychology.
Theater > Philosophy.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Occupations
  • CHAPTER 1. Phenomenology and Performance
  • CHAPTER 2. (Dis)figuring Space: Visual Field in Beckett's Late Plays
  • CHAPTER 3. Object, Objectivity, and the Phenomenal Body
  • CHAPTER 4. The Performing "I": Language and the Histrionics of Place
  • CHAPTER 5. Post-Brechtian Anatomies: The Politics of Embodiment
  • CHAPTER 6. Female Landscapes: Phenomenology and Gender
  • AFTERWORD. Traces: The Dragons' Trilogy
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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