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Subversive Stages: Theater in Pre- and Post- Communist Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria
Ileana Alexandra Orlich
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Description for Subversive Stages: Theater in Pre- and Post- Communist Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria
Hardcover. Exploring theater practices in communist and post-communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, this book analyzes intertextuality or "inter-theatricality" as a political strategy, designed to criticize contemporary political conditions while at the same time trying to circumvent censorship. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 1DVWB; 1DVWR; 2AB; AN; DSB; DSG; JPFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
Exploring theater practices in communist and post-communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, this book analyzes intertextuality or "inter-theatricality" as a political strategy, designed to criticize contemporary political conditions while at the same time trying to circumvent censorship. Plays by Romanian, Hungarian and Bulgarian dramatists are examined, who are "retrofitting" the past by adapting the political crimes and horrifying tactics of totalitarianism to the classical theatre (with Shakespeare a favorite) to reveal the region's traumatic history. By the sustained analysis of the aesthetic devices used as political tools, Orlich makes a very strong case for the continued relevance of the theater as one ... Read more
Exploring theater practices in communist and post-communist Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria, this book analyzes intertextuality or "inter-theatricality" as a political strategy, designed to criticize contemporary political conditions while at the same time trying to circumvent censorship. Plays by Romanian, Hungarian and Bulgarian dramatists are examined, who are "retrofitting" the past by adapting the political crimes and horrifying tactics of totalitarianism to the classical theatre (with Shakespeare a favorite) to reveal the region's traumatic history. By the sustained analysis of the aesthetic devices used as political tools, Orlich makes a very strong case for the continued relevance of the theater as one ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Central European University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Budapest, Hungary
ISBN
9789633861165
SKU
V9789633861165
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About Ileana Alexandra Orlich
Ileana Alexandra Orlich is Professor of Romanian, English and Comparative Literature. She is Head of German, Romanian and Slavic Faculty and Director of the Arizona State University Romanian Studies Program and teaches a variety of culture and literature courses with a comparative and interdisciplinary focus.
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