Brechtian Aesthetics and the Death of the Director in Peter Brook’s The Mahabharata

In an effort to capture some sense of the significance that the radical shifts in literary and cultural theory during the 1980s had for studies of avant-garde performance, one could do a lot worse than to frame the decade with the publication of Richard Schechner’sThe End of Humanismin 1982 and the...

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Published in	The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s) p. 111
Main Authors	Harding, James M., Jr, Harding, James M
Format	Book Chapter
Language	English
Published	United States University of Michigan Press 22.05.2013
Subjects	Aesthetics Anthropology Applied anthropology Applied philosophy Art theory Artistic representation Arts Asian studies Axiology Behavioral sciences Continental philosophy Critical theory Cultural anthropology Cultural customs Cultural identity Ethnography Ethnology Group identity Identity politics India studies Indian culture Metaphilosophy Mimesis Performing arts Philosophy Political science Political sociology Poststructuralism Practical theology Psychology Religion Religious practices Religious rituals Rituals Social criticism Social philosophy Social psychology South Asian studies Structuralism Theater Theology Western philosophy
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Summary:	In an effort to capture some sense of the significance that the radical shifts in literary and cultural theory during the 1980s had for studies of avant-garde performance, one could do a lot worse than to frame the decade with the publication of Richard Schechner’sThe End of Humanismin 1982 and the subsequent publication of schechner’sThe Future of Ritualin 1993. Indeed, the writing of these two books roughly coincided with the beginning and end of a decade that played out against the backdrop of the increasing influence of poststructuralism and that produced a sustained critique of Western
ISBN:	9780472118748 0472118749