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9780230623637

Theatre, Communication, Critical Realism

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230623637

  • ISBN10:

    0230623638

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-06-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Summary

The first book to take a critical realist approach to any area of culture, this study examines theatre and its history through the interaction of society's structures, agents and discourses.

Author Biography

Tobin Nellhaus is Librarian for Performing Arts, Media, and Philosophy at Yale University. He is the co-editor, with Susan Haedicke, of Performing Democracy, International Perspectives on Urban Community-Based Performance. He has published articles in Theatre Journal, the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, the Journal of Critical Realism, and contributed article to Staging Philosophy. Intersections of Theater, Performance, and Philosophy and Performance and Cognition Theatre Studies and the Cognitive Turn.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsp. vii
Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Introductionp. 1
Philosophy, History, Theatrep. 19
Orality, Literacy, and Early Theatrep. 57
Embodiment, Agency, and Performance Strategiesp. 95
Social Ontology, (Meta) theatricality, and the History of Communicationp. 143
Conclusion: New Media, Old Problemsp. 183
Notesp. 199
Bibliographyp. 211
Indexp. 227
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