Modernism and Performance: Jarry to Brecht
Author:   Olga Taxidou
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9781403941008


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   09 November 2007
Format:   Hardback
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Modernism and Performance: Jarry to Brecht


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Author:   Olga Taxidou
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Red Globe Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.442kg
ISBN:  

9781403941008


ISBN 10:   1403941009
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   09 November 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Savages, Gods, Robots and Revolutionaries.- Puppets and Actors.- The Playwright, the Director and the Actress.- '...as if the words themselves could sing and shine': Poetic Drama and Theatricality.- Sada Yakko, Mitchio Ito and Mei Lan-fang: Orientalism, Interculturalism and the Performance Event.- Greeks and Other Savages: Neo-Hellenism, Primitivism and Performance.- 'The Revolution said to the Theatre...': Performance and Engagement.- Notes .- Name Index.- Subject Index.

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'Enjoyable to read, informative and illuminating.' - Jon Erickson. Ohio State University, USA


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OLGA TAXIDOU is a Reader in the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where she teaches theatre and performance studies. She is the author of The Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig (1998), Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning (2004) and co-editor of Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (1998, 2002)

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