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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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