The Theatre of Death – The Uncanny in Mimesis Tadeusz Kantor, Aby Warburg, and an Iconology of the Actor /
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| Summary: | XIII, 336 p. 1 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Series: | Performance Philosophy,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47872-6 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Three instances of present readings of past writings
- Part I. Thinking of the dead through a concept of theatre (The Dead Class)
- Part II. Chapter 1. Precedents (Craig and Artaud, Maeterlinck and Witkiewicz)
- Chapter 2. Survivals and the uncanny
- Chapter 3. Superstition and an iconology
- Part III. Chapter 1. What do we see in theatre – in theory?
- Chapter 2. A question of appearance – enter the actor
- Part IV. Tadeusz Kantor – An avant-garde of death
- Bibliography.