Re Envisioning The Theatre Of The Absurd
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Re Envisioning The Theatre Of The Absurd
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Author : Lara Alexandra Cox
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Re Envisioning The Theatre Of The Absurd written by Lara Alexandra Cox and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
This thesis considers the interface between the theatre of the absurd and Lacanian cultural criticism. It conceptualises a 'theoretical spectator' produced by the play texts and examines its implications for a politics of spectatorship in a postmodern age. This methodology seeks to escape the trap of existentialist criticism that has dominated ideas on the theatre of the absurd since Martin Esslin's coining of the term in 1961. I posit the modern-day relevance of absurd theatre, by putting the plays under examination into dialogue with Lacanian and current post-Lacanian cultural and political thought. The chapters theorise various 'spectatorial positions' produced by three prominent playwrights of the theatre of the absurd: Eugène Ionesco, Arthur Adamov and Fernando Arrabal. I seek to confirm and bolster my theoretical arguments by turning to contemporary empirical reaction to modern-day performances of two other absurdists playwrights, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet. One of the key postulates is that the theatre of these playwrights chimes with Lacan's notion of the split subject. Etymologically, the word 'absurd' refers to division; thematically and aesthetically, absurd theatre bears witness to the erosion of subjective stability. The conceptual parity between Lacanian theory and absurd theatre permits me to stake out a new critical pathway with regard to this body of theatre that paves the way for its re-politicisation in a postmodern world.
The Theatre Of The Absurd
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Author : Martin Esslin
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2009-04-02
The Theatre Of The Absurd written by Martin Esslin and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-02 with Performing Arts categories.
In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents—Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others—shattered dramatic conventions and paid scant attention to psychological realism, while highlighting their characters’ inability to understand one another. In 1961, Martin Esslin gave a name to the phenomenon in his groundbreaking study of these playwrights who dramatized the absurdity at the core of the human condition. Over four decades after its initial publication, Esslin’s landmark book has lost none of its freshness. The questions these dramatists raise about the struggle for meaning in a purposeless world are still as incisive and necessary today as they were when Beckett’s tramps first waited beneath a dying tree on a lonely country road for a mysterious benefactor who would never show. Authoritative, engaging, and eminently readable, The Theatre of the Absurd is nothing short of a classic: vital reading for anyone with an interest in the theatre.
The Cambridge Introduction To Theatre And Literature Of The Absurd
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Author : Michael Y. Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-26
The Cambridge Introduction To Theatre And Literature Of The Absurd written by Michael Y. Bennett and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-26 with Drama categories.
This accessible Introduction provides an in-depth overview of absurdism and its key figures in theatre and literature, from Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to Tom Stoppard. Essential reading for students, this book provides the necessary tools to develop the study of some of the twentieth century's most influential works.
Rethinking The Theatre Of The Absurd
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Author : Carl Lavery
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-11-05
Rethinking The Theatre Of The Absurd written by Carl Lavery and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-05 with Performing Arts categories.
Rethinking 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, Shepard 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.
Reassessing The Theatre Of The Absurd
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Author : M. Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-04-25
Reassessing The Theatre Of The Absurd written by M. Bennett and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-25 with Performing Arts categories.
Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd , which suggests that 'absurd' plays purport the meaninglessness of life, this book uses the works of five major playwrights of the 1950s to provide a timely reassessment of one of the most important theatre 'movements' of the 20th century.
The French Theater Of The Absurd
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Author : Deborah B. Gaensbauer
language : en
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
Release Date : 1991
The French Theater Of The Absurd written by Deborah B. Gaensbauer and has been published by Boston : Twayne Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Drama categories.
The Absurd
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Author : Arnold P. Hinchliffe
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-06
The Absurd written by Arnold P. Hinchliffe and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
First published in 1969, provides a helpful introduction to the study of Absurdist writing and drama in the first half of the twentieth century. After discussing a variety of definitions of the Absurd, it goes on to examine a number of key figures in the movement such as Esslin, Sartre, Camus, Ionesco and Genet. The book concludes with a discussion of the limitations of the term ‘Absurd’ and possible objections to Absurdity. This book will be of interest to those studying Absurdist literature as well as twentieth century drama, literature and philosophy.
Re Thinking Character In The Theatre Of The Absurd
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Author : Carmen Dominte
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2020-09-23
Re Thinking Character In The Theatre Of The Absurd written by Carmen Dominte and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Using the character as a central element, this volume provides insights into the Theatre of the Absurd, highlighting its specific key characteristics. Adopting both semiotic-structuralist and mathematical approaches, its analysis of the absurdist character introduces new models of investigation, including a possible algebraic model operating on the scenic, dramatic and paradigmatic level of a play, not only exploring the relations, configurations, confrontations, functions and situations but also providing necessary information for a possible geometric model. The book also takes into consideration the relations established among the most important units of a dramatic work, character, cue, décor and régie, re-configuring the basic pattern. It will be useful for any reader interested in analyzing, staging or writing a play starting from a single character.
Indian Responses To Western Theatre Of The Absurd Samuel Beckett Eugene Ionesco
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Author : Tapu Biswas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Indian Responses To Western Theatre Of The Absurd Samuel Beckett Eugene Ionesco written by Tapu Biswas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Absurd (Philosophy) in literature categories.
Rethinking The Theatre Of The Absurd
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Author : Carl Lavery
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Rethinking The Theatre Of The Absurd written by Carl Lavery and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Drama categories.
"Rethinking 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."--