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 5
... theatrical- about terror- eemingly ap- egin to blur . urselves that terrorisms of ice of terror- ated images , ism become , evenly dis- e appearance real terror- the outside to the viral shadowing new obser- that theatre hese obser ...
... theatrical- about terror- eemingly ap- egin to blur . urselves that terrorisms of ice of terror- ated images , ism become , evenly dis- e appearance real terror- the outside to the viral shadowing new obser- that theatre hese obser ...
Page 100
... theatrical experience " of the day - an emergent naturalism . This theatre operated in complement to another psychiatric tech- nique , fear , and the two techniques were linked in the disciplines of psycho- theory . Foucault quotes from ...
... theatrical experience " of the day - an emergent naturalism . This theatre operated in complement to another psychiatric tech- nique , fear , and the two techniques were linked in the disciplines of psycho- theory . Foucault quotes from ...
Page 105
... theatrical personae into an entirely new phe- nomenon , the luminescent and ephemeral theatrical " star . " 31 In Manfred , the stage upon which these syntheses take place is theatre itself . Theatrical ontology provides both the space ...
... theatrical personae into an entirely new phe- nomenon , the luminescent and ephemeral theatrical " star . " 31 In Manfred , the stage upon which these syntheses take place is theatre itself . Theatrical ontology provides both the space ...
Contents
Trial and Terror | 26 |
Trope to Tragedy | 48 |
Gesturing through the Flames | 72 |
Copyright | |
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Stages of Terror: Terrorism, Ideology, and Coercion as Theatre History Anthony Kubiak No preview available - 1991 |
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