The Problem Of The Actress In Modern German Theater And Thought
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The Problem of the Actress in Modern German Theater and Thought
Author | : S. E. Jackson |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Actresses |
ISBN | : 9781640140868 |
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Around 1900, German and Austrian actresses had allure and status, apparent autonomy, and unconventional lifestyles. They presented a complex problem socially and aesthetically, one tied to the so-called Woman Question and to the contested status of modernity. For modernists, the actress's socioeconomic mobility and defiance of gender norms opened space to contest social and moral strictures, and her mutability offered a means to experiment with identity. For conservatives, on the other hand, female performance could support antifeminist convictions and validate masculine authority by positing woman as nothing but a false surface shaped by productive male forces. Influential male-authored texts from the period thereby disavowed female subjectivity per se by equating "woman" and "actress." S. E. Jackson establishes the actress as a key figure in a discursive matrix surrounding modernity, gender, and subjectivity. Her central argument is that because the figure of the actress bridged such varied fields of thought, women who were actresses had a consequential impact that resonated in and far beyond the theater - but has not been explored. Examining archival sources such as theater reviews and writing by actresses in direct relation to canonical aesthetic and philosophical texts, The Problem of the Actress reconstructs the constitutive role that womenplayed on and off the stage in shaping not only modernist theater aesthetics and performance practices, but also influential strains of modern thought.
A Stage for Debate
Author | : Martin Wagner |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2023-05-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781487509576 |
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A Stage for Debate presents a detailed analysis of the repertoire of the leading German-language stage of the nineteenth century, Vienna’s Burgtheater. The book explores the extent to which the Burgtheater repertoire contributed to important political and cultural debates on individual liberty, the role of women in society, and the understanding of national and regional identity. The relevance of the Burgtheater as a forum for political debate is assessed not by the degree to which the performed plays transgressed established norms, but by the range of positions that were voiced on a given topic. Martin Wagner investigates the roughly 1,000 plays from across Europe that were introduced to the Burgtheater’s repertoire between 1814 and 1867 by combining a general overview with detailed interpretations of especially successful plays. Wagner reveals that the Burgtheater was significantly more involved in contemporary debates than the stereotype of this stage as an artistically refined but apolitical institution suggests. Drawing from theatre studies and German and Austrian studies more broadly, A Stage for Debate revises the history of one of Europe’s leading theatres.
The Genius of the German Theater
Author | : Martin Esslin |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : UOM:39015004867860 |
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German plays from the mid-20th century.
Essays on German Theater
Author | : Margaret Herzfeld-Sander |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0826402968 |
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It is against this background of the theater's high prestige as a forum for ideas, as the summit of the literary arts, as the place where all the arts coalesce in a Wagnerian 'Gesamtkunstwerk' or dialectically oppose and ironize each other in Brechtian epic 'alienation, ' of the drama as a method of thought, of concrete philosophizing, that the astounding wealth of critical and theoretical writings about drama and theater that the German-speaking world has produced over the last two hundred and fifty years must be seen and appreciated.
Masterpieces of the Modern German Theatre
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:221248236 |
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Performance and Femininity in Eighteenth Century German Women s Writing
Author | : W. Arons |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2006-10-03 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780230600737 |
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In this book, Wendy Arons examines how women writers used theater and performance to investigate the problem of female subjectivity and to intervene in the dominant discourse about ideal femininity. Arons shows how contemporary demands for sincerity and authenticity placed a peculiar burden on women in the public sphere, especially on actresses, who - like professional writers - overstepped the boundaries of what was considered proper behavior for women. Paradoxically, in their representations of ideal women engaged in performance, these writers expose ideal femininity as an impossible act, even as they attempt to perform it in their writing and in their lives.
The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama
Author | : Gabrielle H. Cody,Evert Sprinchorn |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 868 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : UOM:39015064951430 |
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"The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama covers the period from 1860 to the present. ... The distinctive feature of this encyclopedia is the emphasis it places on the cultural context of dramatic works and their authors."--Preface.
The Independent
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1594 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : CORNELL:31924106546983 |
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