Overview
“Herbert Blau’s long sustained inquiry into theater’s most provocative questions—presence, liveness, and finitude—are, at their deepest level, queries into life. Reality Principles returns us to Blau’s inspiring provocations and extends them to new subjects—9/11 and Ground Zero, the nature of charisma, Pirandello and Strindberg.” —Peggy Phelan, Stanford University Reality Principles gathers recent essays by esteemed scholar and theater practitioner Herbert Blau covering a range of topics. The book’s provocative essays—including “The Emotional Memory of Directing,” “The Faith-Based Initiative of the Theater of the Absurd,” “Virtually Yours: Presence, Liveness, Lessness,” “The Human Nature of the Bot”—were given as keynotes and/or memorial lectures and are collected here for the first time. The essays take up a remarkable array of topics—from body art and the self-inflicted punishments of Stelarc, Orlan, and the Viennese Actionists, to Ground Zero and 9/11—and allow Blau to address critical questions of theater and theory, performance and relevance, the absurd and the virtual, history and illusion, community and memory. Reality Principles offers a panoramic view of Herbert Blau’s perspectives on life and the imitation of life on stage.
Full Product Details
Author: Herbert Blau
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Imprint: The University of Michigan Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.550kg
ISBN: 9780472071517
ISBN 10: 0472071513
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 07 June 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Broad in scope, this collection is a rich contribution to the field and offers a fresh look at the work of one of the most well-known scholars in theatre and performance studies. --;i>TDR: The Drama Review --Sebastian Calderon Bentin The Drama Review
Broad in scope, this collection is a rich contribution to the field and offers a fresh look at the work of one of the most well-known scholars in theatre and performance studies. Sebastian Calderon Bentin, TDR: The Drama Review --Sebastian Calderon Bentin The Drama Review
"""Broad in scope, this collection is a rich contribution to the field and offers a fresh look at the work of one of the most well-known scholars in theatre and performance studies."" --Sebastian Calderon Bentin, TDR: The Drama Review --Sebastian Calderon Bentin ""The Drama Review"""
Author Information
Herbert Blau is Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington and author of many influential and prize-winning books, including Blooded Thought: Occasions of Theater, Take Up the Bodies: Theater at the Vanishing Point, and Sails of the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett.
