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OverviewRethinking the Theatre of the Absurd is an innovative collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of theatre, performance and eco-criticism, which reconfigures absurdist theatre through the optics of ecology and environment. As well as offering strikingly new interpretations of the work of canonical playwrights such as Beckett, Genet, Ionesco, Adamov, Albee, Kafka, Pinter, Shephard and Churchill, the book playfully mimics the structure of Martin Esslin's classic text The Theatre of the Absurd, which is commonly recognised as one of the most important scholarly publications of the 20th century. By reading absurdist drama, for the first time, as an emergent form of ecological theatre, Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd interrogates afresh the very meaning of absurdism for 21st-century audiences, while at the same time making a significant contribution to the development of theatre and performance studies as a whole. The collection's interdisciplinary approach, accessibility, and ecological focus will appeal to students and academics in a number of different fields, including theatre, performance, English, French, geography and philosophy. It will also have a major impact on the new cross disciplinary paradigm of eco-criticism. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carl Lavery , Dr Clare Finburgh Delijani (Goldsmiths University, UK)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Methuen Drama Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.522kg ISBN: 9781472506672ISBN 10: 1472506677 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 05 November 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface: David Williams Introduction: Greening the Absurd Chapter 1: 'Ruins true refuge'. Recycling Beckett by Joe Kelleher Chapter 2: Beckett, Robert Wilson, and Mabou Mines Chapter 3: 'Rare Butterflies, Persecution, and Pinball Machines: Environment, Subjectivity, and Society in Theatre of Arthur Adamov' by Franc Chamberlain Chapter 4: 'Greening Ionesco: The Humanism of the Inhuman' by Carl Lavery Chapter 5: 'Every object possesses its own magnificence, no greater or lesser than that of any other object'. The Ecological Aesthetics of Jean Genet's Theatre - Robert Wilson's Les Nègres by Clare Finburgh Chapter 6: Pinter and the Politics of Care by Una Chauduri Chapter 7: The Garden in the Machine: Albee, Shepard, and the American Green Absurd by Steve Bottoms Chapter 8: 'Mutant Bodies: The Absurd in Eastern European Experience' by Ralph Yarrow Chapter 9: Caryl Churchill's 'Dark Ecology' by Elaine Aston IndexReviewsA landmark study in second wave ecocriticism, Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd excavates the non-anthropocentric aesthetics of classic absurdist theatre. It also convincingly suggests absurdism's foundational relevance to contemporary notions of ecological theatre ... The insightful analyses of this volume of essays reposition absurdism as a deconstruction of the systems of thought and (dramatic) subjectivity that undergird our anti-ecological behaviors ... This book will be of special interest to those who study absurdism, but it will appeal to anyone who has ever questioned the boundaries inscribed between mind and nature, social reality and the greater environment. * Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism * [CC] This collection of eight critical essays invites reinterpretation of a group of playwrights loosely fitting into a genre initially endorsed by Martin Esslin in his groundbreaking The Theatre of the Absurd (1961). Deviating from the existential and ontological focus associated with writings about this dramatic phenomenon of the 20th century, the contributors to this book attempt to recalibrate the historical excitement by framing readings with a 21st-century environmental and ecological lens and looking beyond Esslin's classic definition ... [T]he arguments and the connections made here are effective in bringing the ecological issues to the foreground ... Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. * CHOICE * [CC] This collection of eight critical essays invites reinterpretation of a group of playwrights loosely fitting into a genre initially endorsed by Martin Esslin in his groundbreaking The Theatre of the Absurd (1961). Deviating from the existential and ontological focus associated with writings about this dramatic phenomenon of the 20th century, the contributors to this book attempt to recalibrate the historical excitement by framing readings with a 21st-century environmental and ecological lens and looking beyond Esslin’s classic definition … [T]he arguments and the connections made here are effective in bringing the ecological issues to the foreground … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. * CHOICE * Author InformationCarl Lavery teaches Theatre and Performance at Aberystwyth University, UK. His publications include Jean Genet Politics and Performance, with Clare Finburgh (2006), Sacred Theatre (2007), Walking, Writing and Performance: Autobiographical Texts by Dee Heddon, Carl Lavery and Phil Smith (2009), The Politics of Jean Genet's Late Theatre: Spaces of Revolution (2010), Contemporary French Theatre and Performance, with Clare Finburgh (2011), Good Luck Everybody. Lone Twin: Journeys, Performances and Conversations, with David Williams(2011), and the is he editor with Nick Whybrow of a special issue of Performance Research 'On Foot' (2012). Clare Finburgh is a senior lecturer in the department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex, UK. He research focuses on French and UK contemporary performance, notably innovations in French modern and contemporary playwriting and directing; and representations of conflict in UK theatre. She has co-written Jean Genet (with David Bradby, 2011), and co-edited Genet: Performance and Politics (2006) and Contemporary French Theatre and Performance (2011). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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