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Reality principles : from the absurd to the virtual / Herbert Blau.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blau, Herbert, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater--Philosophy.
- Theater.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A panoramic view of how we think about life and the imitation of life on stage.
- Contents:
- Relevance : the shadow of a magnitude
- The faith-based initiative of the theater of the absurd
- The soul-complex of Strindberg : suffocation, scopophilia, and the seer
- From the dreamwork of secession to orgies mysteries theater
- Performing the chaosmos : farts, follicles, mathematics, and delirium in deleuze
- Seeming, seeming: the illusion of enough
- Who's there? community of the question
- The emotional memory of directing
- The commodius vicus of Beckett : vicissitudes of the arts in the science of affliction
- Among the deepening shades : the Beckettian moment(um) and the Brechtian arrest
- Apnea and true illusion : breath(less) in Beckett
- Art and crisis: homeland security and the noble savage
- Ground zero : the original vision (may 16, 2008)
- Blessings to the pope and the witch
- The pathos of dialogue : unable to speak a word
- Thinking history, history thinking
- Why "what history?"
- The human nature of the bot
- Virtually yours: presence, liveness, lessness
- Auto archive.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9786613159922
- 9781283159920
- 1283159929
- 9780472027903
- 0472027905
- OCLC:
- 741691253
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