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 89
... seems somehow at the heart of the comedy of manners , helps us to understand the deep and violent disaffection of its characters : why , for example , does Dorimant attack both Loveit , whom he has already seduced , and Harriet , whom ...
... seems somehow at the heart of the comedy of manners , helps us to understand the deep and violent disaffection of its characters : why , for example , does Dorimant attack both Loveit , whom he has already seduced , and Harriet , whom ...
Page 129
... seems close to such a realization , and these are the moments when he seems the closest to terror and madness . During his periods of wandering and experimentation , in his life as flaneur- cum - Parisian - street - person , during The ...
... seems close to such a realization , and these are the moments when he seems the closest to terror and madness . During his periods of wandering and experimentation , in his life as flaneur- cum - Parisian - street - person , during The ...
Page 160
... seem to be fascinated by the violence of performance , we have also come to live in terror , as every moment of " real life " seems to hold within itself the absolute threat of catastrophe in the promise of terror's spectacular re- turn ...
... seem to be fascinated by the violence of performance , we have also come to live in terror , as every moment of " real life " seems to hold within itself the absolute threat of catastrophe in the promise of terror's spectacular re- turn ...
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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