The limits of performance in the French Romantic theatre (Durham Modern Languages) - Softcover

Buch 7 von 15: Durham Modern Languages Series

McCready, Susan

 
9780719081910: The limits of performance in the French Romantic theatre (Durham Modern Languages)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0719081912 ISBN 13: 9780719081910
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2014

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This volume analyses major French plays of the 1830s, focusing on their theatricality, and on the ways in which they expose the workings of the theatre rather than conceal them.

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Susan McCready is Professor of French at the University of South Alabama

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This volume analyses major French plays of the 1830s, focusing on their theatricality, and on the ways in which they expose the workings of the theatre rather than conceal them. Through an examination of performance within these plays, the study posits that the stage is a privileged site of demonstration, a literal 'proving ground' that lends a physical reality to abstract values announced in the text and shared or questioned by the audience. Negotiating between the literary study of drama and performance theory, this work breaks new ground in nineteenth-century theatre scholarship while proposing a fresh direction in the study of text and performance.

The limits of performance 'challenges conventional wisdom', offering 'a novel take on the mal du siècle, that thematic hardy perennial of French Romanticism and the nineteenth century in general', combined with 'eminently readable and, therefore, compelling' analysis of plays - 'a thought-provoking addition to work in the field' (Glyn Hambrook, Modern and Contemporary France, November 2008).

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This volume analyses major French plays of the 1830s, focusing on their theatricality, and on the ways in which they expose the workings of the theatre rather than conceal them. Through an examination of performance within these plays, the study posits that the stage is a privileged site of demonstration, a literal proving ground that lends a physical reality to abstract values announced in the text and shared or questioned by the audience. Negotiating between the literary study of drama and performance theory, this work breaks new ground in nineteenth-century theatre scholarship while proposing a fresh direction in the study of text and performance. The limits of performance challenges conventional wisdom , offering a novel take on the mal du siècle, that thematic hardy perennial of French Romanticism and the nineteenth century in general , combined with eminently readable and, therefore, compelling analysis of plays a thought-provoking addition to work in the field (Glyn Hambrook, Modern and Contemporary France, November 2008).

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719081912
ISBN 13 
9780719081910
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
154
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