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Eroticism and death in theatre and performance /
Eros and Death are the two central drives and compulsions of the human psyche, and their dynamic interconnectedness has been pervasive in the formation of Western thought and culture. The essays brought together in this collection offer new perspectives on the eros/death relation in a wide selection...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hatfield, Hertfordshire :
University of Hertfordshire Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction by Karoline Gritzner; 1 Some ErosThanatos interfaces in Attic Tragedy by David Rudkin; 2 Dying for love: the tragicomedy of Shakespeare's Cleopatra by Robert Wilcher; 3 Desire and destruction in the drama of Georg Bchner by Karoline Gritzner; 4 Labyrinths of the taboo: theatrical journeys of eroticism and death in Parisian culture by Richard J. Hand; 5 The kiss of love and death: Eros and Thanatos in the opera by Dieter Borchmeyer.
- 6 Eros/sex, death/murder: sensuality, homicide and culture in Musil, Brecht and the Neue Sachlichkeit by George Hunka7 The living corpse: a metaphysic for theatre by Dic Edwards; 8 Flirting with disaster by David Ian Rabey; 9 Howard Barker's 'monstrous assaults': eroticism, death and the antique text by Graham Saunders; 10 'Welcome to the house of fun': Eros, Thanatos, and the uncanny in grand illusions by Michael Mangan; 11 Visions of Xs: experiencing La Fura dels Baus's XXX and Ron Athey's Solar Anus by.