New PDF release: Theatricality as Medium

By Samuel Weber

ISBN-10: 0823224155

ISBN-13: 9780823224159

ISBN-10: 0823224163

ISBN-13: 9780823224166

Ever considering Aristotle's Poetics, either the idea and the perform of theater were ruled through the belief that it's a type of illustration ruled by means of what Aristotle calls the "mythos," or the "plot." This notion of theater has subordinated features on the topic of the theatrical medium, similar to the method and position of staging, to the calls for of a unified narrative.

This readable, thought-provoking, and multidisciplinary research explores theatrical writings that question this aesthetical-generic notion and search in its place to paintings with the medium of theatricality itself. starting with Plato, Samuel Weber tracks the uneasy relationships between theater, ethics, and philosophy via Aristotle, the foremost Greek tragedians, Shakespeare, Kierkegaard, Kafka, Freud, Benjamin, Artaud, and so on who increase possible choices to dominant narrative-aesthetic assumptions concerning the theatrical medium.

His readings additionally interrogate the relation of theatricality to the creation of
electronic media. the result's to teach that, faraway from breaking with the features of stay staged functionality, the recent media accentuate ambivalences approximately position and id already at paintings in theater because the Greeks.

Praise for Samuel Weber: “What form of wondering is essentially after anything except a solution that may be measured . . . in cognitive phrases? these attracted to the hyperlinks among smooth philosophy nd media tradition should be inspired by means of the bizarre highbrow readability and intensity with which Weber formulates the . . . questions that constiture the real problem to cultural reports this present day. . . . considered one of our most crucial cultural critics and thinkers”—MLN

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