Search results for ""author erika fischer-lichte""
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Dionysus Resurrected: Performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a Globalizing World
Dionysus Resurrected analyzes the global resurgence since the late 1960s of Euripides’ The Bacchae. By analyzing and contextualizing these modern day performances, the author reveals striking parallels between transformational events taking place during the era of the play’s revival and events within the play itself. Puts forward a lively discussion of the parallels between transformational eventsduring the era of the play’s revival and events within the play itself The first comparative study to analyse and contextualize performances of The Bacchae that took place between 1968 and 2009 from the United States, Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia Argues that presentations of the play not only represent liminal states but also transfer the spectators into such states Contends that the play’s reflection on various stages of globalization render the tragedy a contemporary play Establishes the importance of The Bacchae within Euripides’ work as the only extant tragedy in which the god Dionysus himself appears, not just as a character but as the protagonist
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Indiana University Press The Semiotics of Theater
"The most thorough, systematic and convincing semiotics of the theater we have. . . . [L]ike those of Eco, it is an important conceptual synthesis, and a bibliographical gold mine." —Modern Language Notes" . . . impresses with its thoroughness and the informed perspective of its author . . . " —Theatre Survey " . . . a classic text . . . " —Theatre Research International "Immediately accessible to readers with some knowledge of theater but not much of semiotics. . . . For anyone with an interest in theater production and performance, or indeed theater history." —Marvin Carlson
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Metzler Lexikon Theatertheorie
Wo steht die Theatertheorie heute? Theaterkunst, die Institution Theater oder Dramaturgie sind längst nicht mehr Gegenstände der theoretischen Diskurse heute ist die Ästhetik in den Mittelpunkt gerückt: Es geht um die Zusammenhänge von Darstellung und Verkörperung, Wahrnehmung und Erfahrung, von Sprechen, Handeln und Emotionen. Mit rund 120 Artikeln stellt das "Metzler Lexikon Theatertheorie" diese Konzepte vor, gibt Einblick in Forschungskontroversen und erläutert, was für die Analyse von Aufführungen relevant ist.
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