Changed Textual Signs in Modern Theatricality: Gombrowicz and Handke
The status of the theory of theatricality is equivocal and perhaps incapable of resolution. As a first critical approach, theatricality may be viewed by analogy with literariness [litterarite). Thus, it is almost a tautology, since theatricality is defined by characteristics of theatre as object, as...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Toronto Press
1982
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Modern drama
Year: 1982, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-16 |
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Girard, René (1923-2015)
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| Summary: | The status of the theory of theatricality is equivocal and perhaps incapable of resolution. As a first critical approach, theatricality may be viewed by analogy with literariness [litterarite). Thus, it is almost a tautology, since theatricality is defined by characteristics of theatre as object, as literature; is literary when a metalanguage views it as an object. But the theatre-object is much more heterogeneous than literature. From another critical angle, theatricality is a concretization of the theatrical fact - histrionic or ludic, but also physical; it is the performance minus the text. But that too is equivocal. Theatregoers are well aware that all spectacles are not theatrical in the same way, and thus theatricality is doubly - at least doubly - in a situation of dependency. |
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| ISSN: | 1712-5286 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Modern drama
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/mdr.1982.0077 DOI: 10.3138/md.25.1.3 |