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Agitated States: Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty
ISBN: 9780472068111 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the earliest Puritan displays of piety and rectitude to the present-day epidemic of staged school massacres, the history of America has been characterized by a dual impulse: to cast public event and character as high drama, and to dismiss theater and theatricalization as un-American, even evil. This book rethinks American history as theater, and theater as the ethos and substance of American life, ironically repudiated at every turn by the culture it produces.
Beginning with the writings of John Winthrop and others, through the Federalist and "romantic" stages of American cultural... From the earliest Puritan displays of piety and rectitude to the present-day epidemic of staged school massacres, the history of America has been char...
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Stages of Terror: Terrorism, Ideology, and Coercion as Theatre History
ISBN: 9780253206633 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. "Every now and then a book comes along so startling in its ingenuity, so crisp and invigorating in its perception and argument, so revealing in its investigation of its subject matter, that one is forced to reevaluate, reconsider, and restructure one s understanding and one s perspectives on theatre, discourse, and history. Such a book is Anthony Kubiak s Stages of Terror." Theatre Studies ..". quite compelling. It is rich and complete while leaving plenty of room for further development... " Text and Performance Quarterly Using Aristotle's Poetics as its point of departure,... "Every now and then a book comes along so startling in its ingenuity, so crisp and invigorating in its perception and argument, so revealing in its... |
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113,95 zł |