Theatricality and Performativity

Theatricality and Performativity
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 293
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ISBN-10 : 9783319732268
ISBN-13 : 3319732269
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Book Synopsis Theatricality and Performativity by : Teemu Paavolainen

Download or read book Theatricality and Performativity written by Teemu Paavolainen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defines theatricality and performativity through metaphors of texture and weaving, drawn mainly from anthropologist Tim Ingold and philosopher Stephen C. Pepper. Tracing the two concepts’ various relations to practices of seeing and doing, but also to conflicting values of novelty and normativity, the study proceeds in a series of intertwining threads, from the theatrical to the performative: Antitheatrical (Plato, the Baroque, Michael Fried); Pro-theatrical (directors Wagner, Fuchs, Meyerhold, Brecht, and Brook); Dramatic (weaving memory in Shaffer’s Amadeus and Beckett’s Footfalls); Efficient (from modernist “machines for living in” to the “smart home”); Activist (knit graffiti, clown patrols, and the Anthropo(s)cene). An approach is developed in which ‘performativity’ names the way we tacitly weave worlds and identities, variously concealed or clarified by the step-aside tactics of ‘theatricality’.


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