Rethinking Roland Barthes through performance : A desire for neutral dramaturgy / edited by Harry Robert Wilson and Will Daddario.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Daddario, Will, editor.

Wilson, Harry Robert, editor.

Series:

Thinking Through Theatre.

Thinking Through Theatre

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barthes, Roland,.

Barthes, Roland.

Drama--Technique.

Drama.

Physical Description:

265 p.: ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : Methuen Drama, 2022.

System Details:

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Summary:

Through a series of reflections from internationally renowned performance-makers and contextualising essays from leading theatre and performance scholars, this is the first book to map the influence of Roland Barthes on performance. The contributions are framed through Barthes's notion of The Neutral - the suspension of binary choice that offers a welcome antidote to the political deadlock of our present moment. They cover the breadth of Barthes's work from Mythologies (1957) to 'The Death of the Author' (1967), A Lover's Discourse (1977), Camera Lucida (1980), to the more recently available lecture courses at the Collège de France. Together, they capture and rethink a range of Barthes's preoccupations, from his early writing on myths and meaning to personal reflections on love, loss and desire, and interrogate the intersections between Barthes's work and contemporary theatre and performance. This book invites readers to approach Barthes's writing from a breadth of creative-critical perspectives, to become more aware of the importance of his late thought for thinking through a range of dramaturgical forms, and to become more familiar with the work of internationally significant performance practitioners.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781350330863

1350330868

9781350330870

1350330876

9781350330856

135033085X

OCLC:

1372399466