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Stoicism and performance : a joyful materialism / by Cormac Power.
Van Pelt Library PN1590.P76 P69 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Power, Cormac, author.
- Series:
- Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 56.
- Consciousness, literature and the arts ; volume 56
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performing arts--Philosophy.
- Performing arts.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 174 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2020]
- Summary:
- Power's 'Stoicism and Performance' presents Stoicism as a means of navigating key debates and concepts in contemporary theatre and performance. Stoicism has influenced many of the most cited radical thinkers in the discipline of theatre and performance studies; for instance Deleuze, Foucault, Kristeva, Agamben. A central aim of this work is to bring Stoicism more explicitly into the fold of the discipline, and to use Stoicism to think differently about performance. With a series of chapters covering themes such as performativity, embodiment, emotion, affect and spectatorship, this book finds points of encounter between Stoicism and contemporary understandings and practices of performance. It presents these encounters as modes of transformative experience in relation to our being in the world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004409538
- 900440953X
- OCLC:
- 1126281533
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