The Play Within the Play: The Performance of Meta-theatre and Self-reflection

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Gerhard Fischer, Bernhard Greiner
Rodopi, 2007 - 460 Seiten
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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19GFHaas
267
19Sec IV
283
20GFFeldman
285
21GFBlackman
297
22GFFrantzi
307
22Sec V1
319
23GFNoble
321
24GFBEWLEY
335

9GFJurgensen
101
10GFTurner
113
11GFLandfester
129
11Sec II2
143
12GFLevy
145
13GFKaynar
167
14GFCaspi
189
14Sec III
201
15GFZipfel 1
203
16GFHerzmann
221
17Schneider
237
18GFFischer
249
25GFBirkenhauer
347
25Sec V2
359
26GFGreber
361
27GFABBATE
377
28GFWoodgate
393
28Sec V3
403
29GFMehigan
405
30GFHonold
421
31GFGarde
431
32GFContributors
447
33GFINDEX
455
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Seite 34 - And suddenly I realized that I should have to shoot the elephant after all. The people expected it of me and I had got to do it; I could feel their two thousand wills pressing me forward, irresistibly. And it was at this moment, as I stood there with the rifle in my hands, that I first grasped the hollowness, the futility of the white man's dominion in the East. Here was I, the white man with his gun, standing in front of...
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Seite 25 - Literature becomes progressively more differentiated from the discourse of ideas, and encloses itself within a radical intransitivity; it becomes detached from all the values that were able to keep it in general circulation during the Classical age (taste, pleasure, naturalness, truth), and creates within its own space everything that will ensure a ludic denial of them...
Seite 126 - And here's my breast, strike home! Rip up my bosom; there thou shalt behold A heart in which is writ the truth I speak.
Seite 34 - For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the ' natives,' and so in every crisis he has got to do what the ' natives ' expect of him. He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
Seite 25 - ... genres comme formes ajustées à un ordre de représentations, et devient pure et simple manifestation d'un langage qui n'a pour loi que d'affirmer - contre tous les autres discours - son existence escarpée; elle...
Seite 6 - Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her.
Seite 10 - To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Seite 25 - ... breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations, and becomes merely a manifestation of a language which has no other law than that of...

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