Unmaking mimesis : essays on feminism and theater / Elin Diamond.
1997
PN1590.W64 D53 1997 (Mapit)
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Unmaking mimesis : essays on feminism and theater / Elin Diamond.
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ISBN
0415012287 (alk. paper)
9780415012287 (alk. paper)
0415012295 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415012294 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780203358900
0203358902
9780415012287 (alk. paper)
0415012295 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415012294 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780203358900
0203358902
Publication Details
London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 226 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
PN1590.W64 D53 1997
Dewey Decimal Classification
792.082
Summary
Through a a series of provocative readings of theatre, theory and feminist performance, Elin Diamond demonstrates the continuing force of feminism and mimesis in critical thinking today. This book will interest theatre scholars and performance and cultural theorists, for all of whom issues of text, representation and embodiment are of compelling concern.
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Through a a series of provocative readings of theatre, theory and feminist performance, Elin Diamond demonstrates the continuing force of feminism and mimesis in critical thinking today. This book will interest theatre scholars and performance and cultural theorists, for all of whom issues of text, representation and embodiment are of compelling concern.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-217) and index.
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Table of Contents
pt. I. Unmaking mimesis. 1. Realism"s hysteria: disruption in the theater of knowledge
pt. II. Gestic feminist criticism. 2. Brechtian theory/feminist theory: toward a gestic feminist criticism. 3. Gestus, signature, body in the theater of Aphra Behn. 4. Caryl Churchill"s plays: the gestus of invisibility
pt. III. Toward a feminist postmodern. 5. Identification and mimesis: the theater of Adrienne Kennedy. 6. Performance and temporality: feminism, experience, and mimetic transformation.
pt. II. Gestic feminist criticism. 2. Brechtian theory/feminist theory: toward a gestic feminist criticism. 3. Gestus, signature, body in the theater of Aphra Behn. 4. Caryl Churchill"s plays: the gestus of invisibility
pt. III. Toward a feminist postmodern. 5. Identification and mimesis: the theater of Adrienne Kennedy. 6. Performance and temporality: feminism, experience, and mimetic transformation.