Stoicism and performance : a joyful materialism /

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Author / Creator:Power, Cormac, author.
Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2020]
©2020
Description:1 online resource (viii, 174 pages).
Language:English
Series:Consciousness, Literature and the Arts ; volume 56
Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 56.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13456340
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ISBN:9789004409545
9004409548
9789004409538
900440953X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cormac Power, Ph.D. (Glasgow University, 2006) is a Senior Lecturer in Drama at Northumbria University at Newcastle. He is author of Presence in Play: A Critique of Theories Presence in the Theatre (Rodopi, 2008).
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Summary:Power's Stoicism and Performance presents Stoicism as a means of navigating key debates and concepts in contemporary theatre and performance. Stoicism has influenced many of the most cited radical thinkers in the discipline of theatre and performance studies; for instance Deleuze, Foucault, Kristeva, Agamben. A central aim of this work is to bring Stoicism more explicitly into the fold of the discipline, and to use Stoicism to think differently about performance. With a series of chapters covering themes such as performativity, embodiment, emotion, affect and spectatorship, this book finds points of encounter between Stoicism and contemporary understandings and practices of performance. It presents these encounters as modes of transformative experience in relation to our being in the world.
Other form:Print version: Power, Cormac. Stoicism and performance. Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2020] 9789004409538