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 96
... mind of Marmaduke in Words- worth's The Borderers , speaks as an emissary of this theatre : This Stripling's mind Is shaken till the dregs float on the surface ; And , in the storm and anguish of the heart , He talks of a transition in ...
... mind of Marmaduke in Words- worth's The Borderers , speaks as an emissary of this theatre : This Stripling's mind Is shaken till the dregs float on the surface ; And , in the storm and anguish of the heart , He talks of a transition in ...
Page 98
... mind realizes its absolute affinity with the unlimited . As thought perceives that it , like nature , is unbounded , we experience the Sublime , according to Kant , as a phenomenon of mind , or as the mind reconstituting itself . The ...
... mind realizes its absolute affinity with the unlimited . As thought perceives that it , like nature , is unbounded , we experience the Sublime , according to Kant , as a phenomenon of mind , or as the mind reconstituting itself . The ...
Page 183
... mind ” and romantic “ imagination . " They are not the same , and should not be confused . However , I do think that the creation of the imagination in romanticism allowed for the development of the psychic axis of " mind . ” The ...
... mind ” and romantic “ imagination . " They are not the same , and should not be confused . However , I do think that the creation of the imagination in romanticism allowed for the development of the psychic axis of " mind . ” The ...
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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