An edition of Edges of loss (1998)

Edges of loss

from modern drama to postmodern theory

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An edition of Edges of loss (1998)

Edges of loss

from modern drama to postmodern theory

One of the curious characteristics of much postmodern theory is the attention it has paid to theater, an art form seemingly more in danger of extinction today than perhaps ever before in its history. Mark Pizzato interrogates this curiosity, revealing it as an obsession with the destruction of social institutions and the "universal truths" of modernism.

The book begins with an investigation of the psychohistory of modern and postmodern stages: the return to ritual chorus and the belief in poetry in Eliot's modern poetic drama, and the nostalgia for a lost ritual "womb" in Nietzsche's proto-postmodern views of ancient tragedy.

Building on this approach, the author employs the techniques of psychobiography with modern, avant-garde playwrights Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, and Jean Genet to diagnose the significance of their work in relation to various postmodern theorists. In doing so, he reveals a common concern among both modernists and postmodernists for the stage edge as a border, a gap, an ambiguous juncture between the artist as a self and the artist as a voice of the community.

In the end, Edges of Loss establishes this concern as a yearning for the lost mother and a lost symbiosis with something deeper and more true.

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English
Pages
232

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Edges of loss: from modern drama to postmodern theory
1998, University of Michigan Press
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Table of Contents

Belief in poetry: Eliot and Richards
Redressing the chorus: Nietzsche in Eliot
The sacrificial hyster(i)a of Eliot's secular drama
Artaud's womb in Derridean re-presentation
Genet's dismemberment through Lacan's orders and Irigaray's cave
Brecht's repression of the Kristevan chora.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-222) and index.

Published in
Ann Arbor
Series
Theater--theory/text/performance

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
809/.001/9
Library of Congress
PN1631 .P58 1998, PN1631.P58 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
232 p. ;
Number of pages
232

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL349693M
Internet Archive
edgesoflossfromm0000pizz
ISBN 10
0472109146
LCCN
98008955
OCLC/WorldCat
38527800
Goodreads
1671695

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