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 146
... alienation through these acts , or have tried to turn alienation back on the social , it is perhaps the genius of modernist and postmodernist culture that it has found a way to deploy the incipient violence of alienation and fragmen ...
... alienation through these acts , or have tried to turn alienation back on the social , it is perhaps the genius of modernist and postmodernist culture that it has found a way to deploy the incipient violence of alienation and fragmen ...
Page 154
... alienating pain from its causes and its uses . It is , or can be , deconstructive in its action , in its production ... alienation , born of specular division , marks the very incep- tion of the political and economic order , or at any ...
... alienating pain from its causes and its uses . It is , or can be , deconstructive in its action , in its production ... alienation , born of specular division , marks the very incep- tion of the political and economic order , or at any ...
Page 179
... alienated in the processes of production , while commodities take on the signs of hu- man desire . The self ( or the appearance of the self - an effect of alienation on the worker ) and its commodity extension both become mystified and ...
... alienated in the processes of production , while commodities take on the signs of hu- man desire . The self ( or the appearance of the self - an effect of alienation on the worker ) and its commodity extension both become mystified and ...
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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