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The nervous stage : nineteenth-century neuroscience and the birth of modern theater /
The Nervous Stage examines the relations between theatrical practices and the scientific study of the nervous system.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Modernist literature & culture
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; The Nervous Stage; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Translations; Introduction; 1. The Emptying of Gesture: Neurology and the British Romantic Stage; 2. From Gestures to Nerves: Woyzeck and the Barbel Fish; 3. The Nervous System: Melodrama, Railway Trauma, and Systemic Risk; 4. The Inner Drama of the Body: Wagner's Neural Aesthetics; 5. Theater's Revenge: Charcot and the Grand Guignol; 6. The Prison House of Nerves: Zola and Strindberg; Conclusion: Nervous Hermeneutics and the Theater of Cruelty; Works Cited; Index.