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The play within the play : the performance of meta-theatre and self-reflection /
The thirty chapters of this innovative international study are all devoted to the topic of the play within the play . The authors explore the wide range of aesthetic, literary-theoretical and philosophical issues associated with this rhetorical device, not only in terms of its original meta-theatric...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2007.
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| Colección: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
112. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The play within the play : scholarly perspectives / Gerhard Fischer and Bernhard Greiner
- I. The play within the play and the performance of self-reflection
- The birth of the subject out of the spirit of the play within the play : the Hamlet paradigm / Bernhard Greiner
- Self-reflexivity in the play within the play and its cross-genre manifestation / Yifen Beus
- 'Backstage discourse' : staging the other in ethnographic and colonial literature / Klaus R. Scherpe
- The play within the play and the closure of representation / David Roberts
- Playing and not playing in Jean Genet's The balcony and The Blacks / Caroline Sheaffer-Jones
- II. The play within the play and meta-theatre
- Self-reflection and self-reference
- The figure in the carpet : metadramatical concepts in Jacob Bidermann's Cenodoxus (1602) / Christian Sinn
- Holding a mirror up to theatre : Baro, Gougenot, Scudéry and Corneille as self-referentialists in Paris, 1628-1635/36 / John Golder
- Rehearsing the endgame : Max Frisch's Biography : a play / Manfred Jurgensen
- Tom Stoppard's The real Inspector Hound (1968) and The real thing (1982) : new frames and old / Barnard Turner
- The invisible fool : Botho Strauss's postmodern metadrama and the history of theatrical reality / Ulrike Landfester
- The theatre and its audience
- Queen of a bathtub : Hanoch Levin's political, aesthetic and ethical metatheatricality / Shimon Levy
- The disguised and distanced real(ity) play within the fictitious play in Israeli stage-drama / Gad Kaynar
- A lacerated culture, a self-reflective theatre : the case of Israeli drama / Zahava Caspi.
- III. Perspectives on the world : comedy, melancholy, theatrum mundi
- 'Very tragical mirth' : the play within the play as a strategy for interweaving tragedy and comedy / Frank Zipfel
- Play and reality in Austrian drama : the figure of the Magister Ludi / Herbert Herzmann
- Playing tragedy : detaching tragedy from itself in classical drama from Lessing to Büchner / Helmut J. Schneider
- Playwrights playing with history : the play within the play and German historical drama (Büchner, Brecht, Weiss, Müller) / Gerhard Fischer
- Postmodernism unmasked : Rainald Goetz's Festung and Albert Ostermaier's The making of B-movie / Birgit Haas
- IV. The play within the play as agency of socio-cultural reflection and intercultural appropriation
- The context within : the play within the play between theatre anthropology, system theory and postcolonial critique / Lada Cale Feldman
- Intercultural framing in Aimé Césaire's Une tempête / Maurice Blackman
- Re-interpreting shadow material in an ancient Greek myth : Another night : Medea / Kyriaki Frantzi
- V. The play within the play as agency of intermedial transformation
- The play within the play and opera
- John Gay and the frame play / Yvonne Noble
- Opera within opera : contexts for a metastasian interlude / Donald Bewley
- Theatrical transformation, media superimposition and scenic reflection : pictorial qualities of modern theatre and the Hofmannsthal/Strauss opera Ariadne auf Naxos / Theresia Birkenhauer
- The play within the play and film
- Pushkin in love, or : a (screen)play within the play. The cinematic potential of romantic-ironic narration in Eugene Onegin / Erika Greber
- The text within the text, the screen within the screen : multi-layered representations in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet / Alessandro Abbate
- 'Gotta dance' (in the dark) : Lars von Trier's critique of the musical genre / Ken Woodgate.
- The play within the play in narrative fiction
- The game of the narrative : Kleist's fiction from a game-theoretical perspective / Tim Mehigan
- French beans and mashed potatoes : agonistic play and symbolic acting in Gottfried Keller's prose fiction / Alexander Honold
- Playing with the apparatus : Franz Kafka's 'In the penal colony' and Barrie Kosky's interpretation for the Melbourne International Arts Festival / Ulrike Garde.