1st Edition

Essays on Theatre and Change Towards a Poetics Of

By Kélina Gotman Copyright 2018
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

If theatre is a way of seeing, an event onstage but also a fleeting series of moments; not a copy or double but more vitally metamorphosis, transformation, and change, how might we speak to – and of – it? How do we envision and frame a fluid reality that moves faster than we can write? Arranged over two parts, 'Figurations' and 'Translations', Essays on Theatre and Change reflects on the... Read more

List of illustrations

Acknowledgments

By Way of a Prelude: upon reading Rosi Braidotti

Part 1 Figurations

1. Icarus Falling, and Rising (and Falling, and Rising again)

2. The Memory of Prehistory

3. Not Dolly!

4. Silent and Listening it Hangs over the Sea

5. Freud’s Brains: Drawings from the Eel to the Id

6. Number 174517 (Gesture towards a Grammar of the Human)

7. Feindre (Feinte de Feinte Feinte)

8. The Fissure of Absence

 

Part 2 Translations

9. Entre Chien et Loup / Between Dog and Wolf

10. Venus in Furs: Painting to Page, a Passage (on the Essay)

11. Metáphoric Thought: Stage Plays, Bacon, Beans / God is a Lobster

12. Reading Rosset: Doubles, Reals, Echoes, and Impressions – a False Ending

13. Corpus- [corpus]: hand, handiwork, Habitat, gifts, feet, footnotes, and the ‘ob-scene’

14. The Residue, the Remainder: Thoughts on Language and Speech between both and and

 

Bibliography

Biography

Kélina Gotman is Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at King’s College London, UK.