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Carnival texts : three plays for ensemble performance / James MacDonald.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacDonald, James, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drama.
- Carnival in literature.
- Performing arts--Study and teaching (Higher).
- Performing arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Intellect, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Carnival Texts comprises three related dramatic works, all of which have as their point of departure Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of carnival, a literary style designed to subvert dominant assumptions through chaos and humour. Making creative use of post-Brechtian performance theory, these texts blur the distinction between spectator and performer in a fascinating exploration of physical, moral, and cultural upheaval in a postmodern age. Performance theory is crucial to understanding how performance affects collective understanding, and this book will be of interest to a broad ra
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Preface; PART ONE: TEXTS; Strangers To Paradise; Brides, Bombs and Boardrooms; Fete; PART TWO: ESSAYS; Fear into Laughter; Bodies in Pain: Realism and the Subversion of Spectacle in Brides, Bombs and Boardrooms; Blowing Up the Nation: Vulnerability and Violence in James MacDonald's Post-national England; Notes on Contributors; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- ISBN:
- 9786613162748
- 9781283162746
- 1283162741
- 9781841505008
- 1841505005
- OCLC:
- 732956180
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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