In this highly original study of the nature of performance, Spencer Golub uses the insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein into the way language works to analyze the relationship between the linguistic and the visual in the work of a broad range of dramatists, novelists, and filmmakers, among them Richard Foreman, Mac Wellman, Peter Handke, David Mamet, and Alfred Hitchcock. Like Wittgenstein, these artists are concerned with the limits of language s representational capacity. For Golub, it is these limits that give Wittgenstein s thought a further, very personal significance its therapeutic...
In this highly original study of the nature of performance, Spencer Golub uses the insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein into the way language works to a...
Based on his reading of films, theater and drama, novels, and his own life, Spencer Golub argues that we live an unreality from within which we imagine and construct a fictional idea of the real.
Based on his reading of films, theater and drama, novels, and his own life, Spencer Golub argues that we live an unreality from within which we imagin...
Based on his reading of films, theater and drama, novels, and his own life, Spencer Golub argues that we live an unreality from within which we imagine and construct a fictional idea of the real.
Based on his reading of films, theater and drama, novels, and his own life, Spencer Golub argues that we live an unreality from within which we imagin...
