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Staging the Savage God: The Grotesque in Performance
Ralf Remshardt
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Description for Staging the Savage God: The Grotesque in Performance
Hardcover. In this broadly conceived study, Ralf Remshardt delineates the theatre's deep connection with the grotesque and traces the historically extensive relationship between performance and its 'other', the grotesque. Num Pages: 272 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 549.
In this broadly conceived study, Ralf E. Remshardt delineates the theatre's deep connection with the grotesque and traces the historically extensive and theoretically intensive relationship between performance and its ""other,"" the grotesque. Staging the Savage God: The Grotesque in Performance examines the aesthetic complicity shared by the two in both art and theatre and presents a general theory of the grotesque. Performing the grotesque is both a challenge to a culture's order and the affirmation of certain ethical principles that it recognizes as its own. Remshardt investigates the aesthetics and ideology of grotesque theatre from antiquity - in works such as The Bacchae and Thyestes - to modernity - in Ubu Roi and Hamletmachine - and opens up new critical possibilities for the analysis of both classical and avant-garde theatre. Divided into three sections, Staging the Savage God first interrogates the grotesque as primarily a visual artistic and theatrical mode and then inventories various critical approaches to the grotesque, establishing the outlines of a theory with regard to drama. In the most extensive part of the study, Remshardt shifts his emphasis to the theatre of the grotesque, from self-consuming tragedies and the modernist trope of the artificial human figure to the characterology of the grotesque. Remshardt's conclusion takes bold steps towards unraveling the paradox inherent in the grotesque theatre. Written in an engaging and frequently polemical style and aided by nine illustrations, Staging the Savage God is a comprehensive and rigorous study that incorporates critical approaches from disciplines such as philosophy, psychoanalysis, art history, literature, and theatre to fully investigate the historical function of the grotesque in performance.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809325764
SKU
V9780809325764
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About Ralf Remshardt
Ralf E. Remshardt is an associate professor of theatre and dance at the University of Florida, Gainesville, where he is also resident dramaturge.
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