How does proximity between audiences and performers change the nature of live performance? Relating their practice to wider issues in contemporary performance and detailing workshop exercises that aid performance making, this unique fusion of artistic and academic reflection is crucial reading for students, scholars and practitioners alike.
Blanchot's work transcends literary criticism, offering profound insights into the philosophies of Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida. His interpretations are marked by their enigmatic nature, revealing complex connections between literature and philosophical thought. Renowned for his critiques of Kafka, Mallarme, and Beckett, Blanchot's influence spans both the literary and philosophical realms, making him a pivotal figure in 20th-century intellectual discourse.
Few thinkers of the twentieth century have so profoundly and radically transformed our understanding of writing and literature as Jacques Derrida (1930-2004). This book provides an accessible introduction to Derrida's writings on literature which presupposes no prior knowledge of his work.
The history of first wave feminism in British theatre is explored through pivotal events, starting with the 1889 London premiere of Ibsen's A Doll's House and extending to the militant suffrage movement. Leslie Hill examines how theatre makers engaged with and influenced feminist discourse on critical issues like sexual agency, reproductive rights, marriage equality, financial independence, and suffrage. This survey marks the 100-year anniversary of women's suffrage, highlighting the significant role of theatre in shaping feminist ideas.
Writing in fragments is often held to be one of the most distinctive signature effects of Romantic, modern, and postmodern literature. But what is the fragment, and what may be said to be its literary, philosophical, and political significance? Few writers have explored these questions with such probing radicality and rigorous tenacity as the French writer and thinker Maurice Blanchot.For the first time in any language, this book explores in detail Blanchot's own writing in fragments in order to understand the stakes of the fragmentary within philosophical and literary modernity. It attends in detail to each of Blanchot's fragmentary works ( Awaiting Forgetting , The Step Not Beyond , and The Writing of the Disaster ) and reconstructs Blanchot's radical critical engagement with the philosophical and literary tradition, in particular with Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Heraclitus, Levinas, Derrida, Nancy, Mallarmé, Char, and others, and assesses Blanchot's account of politics, Jewish thought, and the Shoah, with a view to understanding the stakes of fragmentary writing in Blanchot and within philosophical and literary modernity in general.
This is a new account of the prose fiction of Samuel Beckett from Murphy (1938) to Worstward Ho (1983). Drawing on contemporary literary theory, the book rejects the idea that Beckett is an author committed to expressing a particular view of the world.
This book makes a major contribution to the fields of theatre and performance studies, devised performance practice, and practice-based research. The authors provide a treasure-trove of performance exercises that will be invaluable to performance-makers, educators and students as they develop their creative practice. 10 half-tones.
A Stroll Through Brown Trout Country is a celebration of Les Hill and Graeme Marshall's exploration together of brown trout habitat, spanning more than three decades.