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12%OFFMichael Y. Bennett - Words, Space, and the Audience: The Theatrical Tension between Empiricism and Rationalism - 9780230116801 - V9780230116801
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Words, Space, and the Audience: The Theatrical Tension between Empiricism and Rationalism

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Description for Words, Space, and the Audience: The Theatrical Tension between Empiricism and Rationalism Hardcover. Situating theatre in crucial moments in history and philosophy, Bennet reads four of the most influential plays through their contemporary epistemological debates between rationalism and empiricism. Num Pages: 179 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DD; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 221 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
In this unique study, Michael Y. Bennett re-reads four influential modern plays alongside their contemporary debates between rationalism and empiricism to show how these monumental achievements were thoroughly a product of their time, but also universal in their epistemological quest to understand the world through a rational and/or empirical model. Bennett contends that these plays directly engage in their contemporary epistemological debates rather than through the lens of a specific philosophy. Besides producing new, insightful readings of heavily-studied plays, the interdisciplinary (historical, philosophical, dramatic, theatrical, and literary) frame Bennett constructs allows him to investigate one of the most fundamental questions ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
Number of Pages
179
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230116801
SKU
V9780230116801
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About Michael Y. Bennett
Michael Y. Bennett is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA, where he teaches courses on modern drama. He is the author of: Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd (2011/2013); Words, Space, and the Audience (2012); Narrating the Past through Theatre (2012). He is the editor of Refiguring Oscar Wilde s Salome ... Read more

Reviews for Words, Space, and the Audience: The Theatrical Tension between Empiricism and Rationalism
'Through thoughtfully researched and engagingly argued case-studies, Bennett accomplishes two overlapping aims: to offer new readings of these canonical works and, more significantly, to develop a heuristic for considering the key question from reception theory [i.e., 'how does meaning get made in the theatre?'] as it relates to modern dramatic texts . . . In all, these chapters were an ... Read more

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