Theatermachine : Tadeusz Kantor in Context Paperback / softback
Edited by Magda Romanska, Kathleen Cioffi
Paperback / softback
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Theatermachine: Tadeusz Kantor in Context is an in-depth, multidisciplinary compendium of essays about one of the most influential theater artists of the twentieth century.
Hans-Thies Lehmann's theory of postdramatic theater and developments in critical theory-particularly Bill Brown's thing theory, Bruno Latour's actor-network theory, and posthumanism-serve to provide a previously unavailable vocabulary for discussion of Kantor's theater. Drawing on diverse approaches, the contributors write about Kantor from both global and local perspectives: as an exemplar of "postdramatic tragedy"; in relationship to Jewish culture and Yiddish theater; through the prism of postmemory and trauma theory; and in relation to Japanese, German, French, Polish, and American avant-garde theater.
This comprehensive anthology arrives at a time when we grapple with the materiality of our modern lives-AI, technobjects, and algorithms-and might thus also be better poised to understand the materiality that permeates Kantor's theater. Theatermachine argues that while confronting the twentieth century's most pressing, but least comfortable, questions-those of a human's worth, dignity, essence, and purpose-Kantor might also have been, unwittingly, a harbinger of the twenty-first century's political, ethical, aesthetic, and critical discourse.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages, 14 black & white images
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:30/04/2020
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- ISBN:9780810140240
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages, 14 black & white images
- Publisher:Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date:30/04/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9780810140240
