Stages of Terror: Terrorism, Ideology, and Coercion as Theatre History"Every now and then a book comes along so startling in its ingenuity, so crisp and invigorating in its perception and argument, so revealing in its investigation of its subject matter, that one is forced to reevaluate, reconsider, and restructure one's understanding and one's perspectives on theatre, discourse, and history. Such a book is Anthony Kubiak's Stages of Terror." -- Theatre Studies ..". quite compelling. It is rich and complete while leaving plenty of room for further development... " -- Text and Performance Quarterly Using Aristotle's Poetics as its point of departure, Anthony Kubiak traces the forms or "stages" of terror as a cultural and performative principle through English Renaissance and Restoration plays, through the modern and postmodern, to contemporary terrorist "theatres." |
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Page 97
... crime " is triangulated and approached asymptotically , but never appre- hended . This béance suggest a crime that is indeed unthinkable - what may have been an unspeakable crime ( incest ) in the nineteenth century becomes emblematic ...
... crime " is triangulated and approached asymptotically , but never appre- hended . This béance suggest a crime that is indeed unthinkable - what may have been an unspeakable crime ( incest ) in the nineteenth century becomes emblematic ...
Page 109
... crime itself is sublimated and dispersed back into the play as poetic discourse . This anesthetic exists , like the Quem Quae- ritis , as yet another sort of theatrical apotheosis of crime characterized as a spectacle of the legal ...
... crime itself is sublimated and dispersed back into the play as poetic discourse . This anesthetic exists , like the Quem Quae- ritis , as yet another sort of theatrical apotheosis of crime characterized as a spectacle of the legal ...
Page 110
... crime that has condemned him to pain and torture . Both heroes , then , try to locate crime in the words that name it , and both eventually come to identify crime and the ambiguous causes of suffering with the catastrophe of language ...
... crime that has condemned him to pain and torture . Both heroes , then , try to locate crime in the words that name it , and both eventually come to identify crime and the ambiguous causes of suffering with the catastrophe of language ...
Contents
Trial and Terror | 26 |
Trope to Tragedy | 48 |
Gesturing through the Flames | 72 |
Copyright | |
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