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Author Blau, Herbert, author.

Title Reality principles : from the absurd to the virtual / Herbert Blau.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (292 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Relevance: the shadow of a magnitude -- The faith-based initiative of the theater of the absurd -- The soul-complex of Strindberg: suffocation, scopophilia, and the seer -- From the dreamwork of secession to orgies mysteries theater -- Performing the chaosmos: farts, follicles, mathematics, and delirium in deleuze -- Seeming, seeming: the illusion of enough -- Who's there? community of the question -- The emotional memory of directing -- The commodius vicus of Beckett: vicissitudes of the arts in the science of affliction -- Among the deepening shades: the Beckettian moment(um) and the Brechtian arrest -- Apnea and true illusion: breath(less) in Beckett -- Art and crisis: homeland security and the noble savage -- Ground zero: the original vision (may 16, 2008) -- Blessings to the pope and the witch -- The pathos of dialogue: unable to speak a word -- Thinking history, history thinking -- Why "what history?" -- The human nature of the bot -- Virtually yours: presence, liveness, lessness -- Auto archive.
Summary This title gathers essays by esteemed scholar and theatre practitioner Herbert Blau covering a range of topics. The book offers a panoramic view of Herbert Blau's perspectives on life and the imitation of life on stage.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Theater -- Philosophy.
Theater -- Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Blau, Herbert. Reality principles. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2011 9780472071517 (DLC) 2010047518 (OCoLC)687681586
ISBN 9780472027903 (electronic book)
0472027905 (electronic book)
9780472071517
0472071513
9780472051519
0472051512
Standard No. 9786613159922