New Directions in TheatreJulian Hilton Macmillan Education UK, 1993 M06 8 - 184 pages The boom in interest in theatre studies at school and in further and higher education signals a new interest in the relationship between the theory and the practice of performance. The best tool you can give the learner is a good theory, and from this collection of theories, learners can choose the tools that best suit their approach to theatre studies. They range from reception theory and semiotics, to the anthropology of the audience and the carnivalesque to hermeneutics and computing. |
Contents
The Aesthetics of Reception and Theatre | 13 |
Production and Reception in the Theatre | 25 |
Osiris Catharsis and the Feast | 72 |
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action actor aesthetics of reception ambiguities analysis Aristotle audience Bakhtin behaviour Brecht Büchner Carnival carnivalesque character comedy comic communication concept concretisation consciousness critical culture Descartes developed dialectic dialogue Dilthey discourse dramatic text ence experience expert systems festive fictional function Georg Büchner Heinz Fischer hermeneutic historical Hölderlin Ibid ideology imitation Ingarden interpretation Jauss knowledge language literary London Lukács machine meaning meta-text mise-en-scène modern drama Mukarovsky myth nature norms notion paradox parody Pavis performance text Plato play playwright plot Poetics political practice pragmatic production and reception Pygmalion reader reading reality Reception Theory relationship representation reversal Rezeptionsästhetik ritual role Royal Dramatic Theatre semiological semiology sense Shakespeare signifier social context society spectator speech speech-act theory stage enunciation structure symbolic T. S. Eliot textual theatre theatrical tion tragedy translation understanding Vodicka Wilhelm Dilthey Woyzeck zones of indeterminacy