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The Play within the Play: The Performance of Meta-Theatre and Self-Reflection (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 112) - Hardcover
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The thirty chapters of this innovative international study are all devoted to the topic of the play within the play. The authors explore the wide range of aesthetic, literary-theoretical and philosophical issues associated with this rhetorical device, not only in terms of its original meta-theatrical setting - from the baroque idea of a theatrum mundi onward to contemporary examples of postmodern self-referential dramaturgy - but also with regard to a variety of different generic applications, e.g. in narrative fiction, musical theatre and film. The authors, internationally recognized specialists in their respective fields, draw on recent debates in such areas as postcolonial studies, game and systems theories, media and performance studies, to analyze the specific qualities and characteristics of the play within the play: as ultimate affirmation of the 'self' (the 'Hamlet paradigm'), as a self-reflective agency of meta-theatrical discourse, and as a vehicle of intermedial and intercultural transformation. The challenging study, with its underlying premise of play as a key feature of cultural anthropology and human creativity, breaks new ground by placing the play within the play at the centre of a number of intersecting scholarly discourses on areas of topical concern to scholars in the humanities.
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Gerhard Fischer is Head of German Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. His books on theatre include The Mudrooroo/Müller Project. A Theatrical Casebook (1993) and GRIPS. Geschichte eines populären Theaters, 1966-2000 (2002). As convenor of the Sydney German Studies Symposia he has edited a number of volumes on modern German literature, including Heiner Müller. ConTEXTS and HISTORY (1995) and (with David Roberts) Schreiben nach der Wende. Ein Jahrzehnt deutscher Literatur, 1989-1999 (2001).
Bernhard Greiner is Professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Tübingen, Germany; from 2000-2002 he was the inaugural Walter Benjamin Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Recent publications include Kleists Dramen und Erzählungen. Experimente zum Fall der Kunst (2000) and Die Komödie: eine theatralische Sendung. Grundlagen und Interpretationen, second, rev. and enlarged edition (2006).
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- PublisherBrill Academic Pub
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 9042022574
- ISBN 13 9789042022577
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages460
- EditorFischer Gerhard, Greiner Bernhard
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, xvi + 460 pages. Book is gently used, interior is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Boards show regular shelfwear, faint handling marks. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Scholarly Perspectives; -- Play within the Play & Performance of Self-Reflection -- Birth of the Subject out of the Spirit of the Play within the Play: The Hamlet Paradigm / Bernhard Greiner; Self-Reflexivity in the Play within the Play & its Cross-Genre Manifestation / Yifen Beus; Backstage Discourse: Staging the Other in Ethnographic & Colonial Literature / Klaus R. Scherpe; Play within the Play & Closure of Representation / David Roberts; Playing & not Playing in Jean Genet's The Balcony & The Blacks / Caroline Sheaffer-Jones; -- Play within the Play & Meta-Theatre -- 1 Self-Reflection & Self-Reference -- Figure in the Carpet: Metadramatical Concepts in Jacob Bidermann's Cenodoxus 1602 / Christian Sinn; Holding a Mirror up to Theatre: Baro, Gougenot, Scudéry and Corneille as Self-Referentialists in Paris, 1628-1635/?36 / John Golder; Rehearsing the Endgame: Max Frisch's Biography: A Play / Manfred Jurgensen; Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound (1968) & The Real Thing (1982): New Frames & Old / Barnard Turner; Invisible Fool: Botho Strauss's Postmodern Metadrama & History of Theatrical Reality / Ulrike Landfester; 2. Theatre & its Audience -- Queen of a Bathtub: Hanoch Levin's Political, Aesthetic & Ethical Metatheatricality / Shimon Levy; Disguised & Distanced Real(ity) Play within the Fictitious Play in Israeli Stage-Drama / Gad Kaynar; Lacerated Culture, a Self-Reflexive Theatre: The Case of Israeli Drama / Zahava Caspi; -- Perspectives on the World: Comedy, Melancholy, theatrum mundi -- Very Tragical Mirth: The Play within the Play as a Strategy for Interweaving Tragedy & Comedy / Frank Zipfel; Play & Reality in Austrian Drama: Figure of the Magister Ludi / Herbert Herzmann; Playing Tragedy: Detaching Tragedy from Itself in Classical Drama from Lessing to Büchner/ Helmut J. Schneider; Playwrights Playing with History: Play within the Play & German Historical Drama (Büchner, Brecht, Weiss, Müller) / Gerhard Fischer; Postmodernism Unmasked: Rainald Goetz's Festung & Albert Ostermaier's The Making of B-Movie / Birgit Haas; -- Play within the Play as Agency of Socio-Cultural Reflection & Intercultural Appropriation -- Context Within: Play within the Play between Theatre Anthropology, System Theory & Postcolonial Critique / Lada Cale Feldman; Intercultural Framing in Aimé Césaire's Une Tempête / Maurice Blackman; Re-Interpreting Shadow Material in an Ancient Greek Myth: Another Night: Medea / Kyriaki Frantzi; -- Play within the Play as Agency of Intermedial Transformation -- 1. Play within the Play & Opera -- John Gay & the Frame Play / Yvonne Noble; Opera within Opera: Contexts for a Metastasian Interlude / Donald Bewley; Theatrical Transformation, Media Superimposition & Scenic Reflection: Pictorial Qualities of Modern Theatre & the Hofmannsthal/?Strauss Opera Ariadne auf Naxos / Theresia Birkenhauer; 2. Play within the Play & Film -- Pushkin in Love, or: A (Screen)Play within the Play: Cinematic Potential of Romantic-Ironic Narration in Eugene Onegin / Erika Greber; Text within the Text, the Screen within the Screen: Multi-Layered Representations in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet & Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet / Alessandro Abbate; Gotta Dance (in the Dark): Lars von Trier's Critique of the Musical Genre / Ken Woodgate; 3. Play within the Play in Narrative Fiction -- Game of the Narrative: Kleist's Fiction from a Game-Theoretical Perspective / Tim Mehigan; French Beans & Mashed Potatoes: Agonistic Play & Symbolic Acting in Gottfried Keller's Prose Fiction / Alexander Honold; Playing with the Apparatus: Franz Kafka's 'In the Penal Colony' & Barrie Kosky's Interpretation for the Melbourne International Arts Festival / Ulrike Garde; Index of Names. Seller Inventory # 007303
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