{"product_id":"from-mimesis-to-interculturalism-readings-of-theatrical-theory-before-and-after-modernism-exeter-performance-studies-9780859896405","title":"From Mimesis To Interculturalism Readings of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Mimesis to Interculturalism offers a series of critical readings of key texts in the history of European and American theatrical and performance theory. It answers the need for a detailed critique of theatrical theory from its origins in Greek antiquity to the present day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a hard book to read and one that makes no pretence of being anything else. It does not offer itself as a sourcebook of readings in theatrical theorists. Rather, it offers a critique of the rhetorical devices employed by Plato and Aristotle, Rousseau and Diderot, Peter Brook, Victor Turner, Richard Schechner, and concludes with 'Some observations on Stanislavski and Brecht' and a short essay on 'The Significance of Theory' . . . The fact that Ley is equally at home in Ancient Greek, eighteenth-century French and the discourses of modern American theatre anthropology, makes it possible for him to give readings of his chosen texts which are consistently well-informed, densely structured and highly intelligent . . . A treasury of detailed discourse analysis. \u003cem\u003eTheatre Research International\u003c\/em\u003e, Vol. 27:1, 2002\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIt's good to see a book like this challenging conventional notions and categories of postmodernism head-on. \u003cem\u003eSpeech and Drama\u003c\/em\u003e, Vol. 50, No. 2, Autumn 2001\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eRefreshingly scholarly - and entirely accessible - discussion of a range of writers and ideas from Plato to interculturalism which impresses by its research and stimulates and educates the reader. \u003cem\u003eStudies in Theatre and Performance\u003c\/em\u003e, Vol 20, June 2000\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I Before:\u003cbr\u003e The idea of sight - Plato and Aristotle\u003cbr\u003e Performances of the mind - Rousseau and Diderot.\u003cbr\u003e Part II And after: \u003cbr\u003e Brook and the theory of rhetoric;\u003cbr\u003e Theatre anthropologies - Victor Turner, Richard Schechner, Eugenio Barba\u003cbr\u003e Part III: some observations on Stanislavski and Brecht;\u003cbr\u003e The significance of theory\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Exeter Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884811170135,"sku":"9780859896405","price":71.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-mimesis-to-interculturalism-readings-of-theatrical-theory-before-and-after-modernism-exeter-performance-studies-9780859896405","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}