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To Act, to Do, to Perform: Drama and the Phenomenology of Action PDF

168 Pages·1994·15.897 MB·English
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by Alice Rayner| 1994| 168 pages| 15.897| English

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To Act, To Do, To Perform ably demonstrates how the field of drama can offer distinctive answers to questions currently being asked in philosophy and literary theory. It is a phenomenological study of action using methods of philosophy, literary study, and dramatic theory. It is interdisciplinary in its approach, using concepts from Aristotle and Kenneth Burke through Heidegger to Lacan and Derrida.The chapters examine four dramatic works: the dimensions of action involving the active/passive position of a subject (in Waiting for Godot), the difference between withdrawal from action and performance (in The Three Sisters), and the visible or "demonic" element of the material act (in Macbeth). The final chapter on Hamlet examines the interplay of these elements as action is found to dismantle itself in performance even as it is being repeated.These analyses demonstrate the processes by which the representation of action intersects with a dismantling of action in a performative present. They indicate how ideas about both subjects and their acts are limited by the language that divides subjects from processes. Together they account for how a fuller sense of action, taken from drama rather than analytic philosophy, might dissolve conventional dichotomies between text and performance, subject and object, fiction and reality.

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Author:Alice Rayner
Publication Year:1994
ISBN:9780472105373
Pages:168
Language:English
File Size:15.897
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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