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 |
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Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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United States
University of Michigan Press
22.05.2013
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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 |
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ISBN: | 9780472118748 0472118749 |