Ruins : Classical Theater and Broken Memory / Odai Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Odai, 1959-

Series:

Theater--theory/text/performance

Theater: theory/text/performance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Greece--History--To 500.

Theater.

Greece.

History.

Theater--Rome--History--To 500.

Greek drama--History and criticism.

Greek drama.

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Classical drama--History and criticism.

Classical drama.

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Classical theater and broken memory

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2018.

Summary:

In ten wide-ranging case studies, theater history and performance theory are brought together to examine the texts, artifacts, and icons left behind, reading them in fresh ways to offer an elegantly written, extended meditation on “how the aesthetic of ruins offered a model for an ideal that dislodged and ultimately stood in for the historic.”--Publisher description.

Contents:

1 Domesticating Dionysus p. 23

2 The Fining of Phrynichus: Shaping Memory and Genre in Athens p. 46

3 Broken Shards and Buried Barbs: Ostracism and Weaponized Comedy p. 64

4 The Serene Face of Menander; or, "The Dipper Dipped" p. 80

5 Unspeakable Histories: Terror, Spectacle, and Genocidal Memory on the Roman Stage p. 105

6 Mapping Rome: Becoming Togati p. 123

7 Mapping Rome: Shitting on Romans p. 156

8 Mapping Rome: Rules for Borrowing Memory p. 169

9 Savage Cuisine / The City of Always p. 180

10 Antiquity's Last Supper p. 203

11 The Damnatio of the Gods: Theater and Resistance in the Pagan Holocaust p. 234.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Theorizing the effects of memory, absence, and disappearance in classical theater-the aesthetics of ruins."--Publisher website.

ISBN:

9780472131068

0472131060

9780472124398

0472124390

OCLC:

1037282292