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Performing emotions : gender, bodies, spaces, in Chekhov's drama and Stanislavski's theatre / Peta Tait.
Van Pelt Library PG3458.Z9 D774 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tait, Peta, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904--Dramatic works.
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich.
- Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 1863-1938.
- Stanislavsky, Konstantin.
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904.
- Emotions in literature.
- Gender identity in literature.
- Acting.
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904--Criticism and interpretation.
- Stanislavskiı̆, K. S. (Konstantin Sergeevich), 1863-1938--Criticism and interpretation.
- Drama.
- Local Subjects:
- Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich, 1860-1904--Criticism and interpretation.
- Stanislavskiı̆, K. S. (Konstantin Sergeevich), 1863-1938--Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 199 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1 Introducing Emotions 1
- The Politics of Emotions in Theatre 1
- Discursive Approaches 11
- Defining Emotions 14
- 2 Hope and Despair: Theatrical Emotions, Hysteria and Masculinity 21
- Self-Dramatisation and Chekhov's Characters 21
- The Seagull (1896) 22
- Reverberating Fictions and Love 24
- The Characterisation of Hysteria 31
- Uncle Vanya (1897) 36
- A Crisis of Masculine Identity 37
- A Gendered Economy of Emotion 46
- The Social Meaning of Theatrical Emotions 50
- 3 Loss, Nostalgia and Yearning: Representations of a Feminine Self 54
- Literary Love 54
- Three Sisters (1901) 56
- Representations of Feminine Emotions 60
- Emotional Spaces 67
- The Cherry Orchard (1903) 70
- Emotional Geographies 73
- Embodied Emotions and Performative Acts 81
- Femininity as Excess Emotion 84
- 4 Happy to Sad: Stanislavski's Theatrical Logic Embodied 89
- Acting Emotions 89
- Acting Being, Belief and Truth 97
- Controversy Over the Director's Realist Logic 100
- Social Bodies Act Inner Emotions? 108
- Training Repetitions of Bodies 113
- 5 Laughter and Tears: Interiority as Bodily Control Over Emotions 121
- Olga Knipper, Stanislavski and Acting Naturally 121
- Theoretical Mastery Over Interiority 134
- A Modern Theatre of Private Love 138
- Staging Natural and Deep 140
- 6 Performing Emotional Bodies 145
- Phenomenological Bodies Per/Form 145
- Brecht's Separation of Emotion 149
- The Social Performance of Emotion 151
- Display Rules and Performative Identities 154
- Emotions and Corporeal Subjectivity 159
- Transgressive Emotional Performances 164.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-195) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754606384
- OCLC:
- 49312448
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