Arpad Szakolczai

Comedy and the Public Sphere

The Rebirth of Theatre as Comedy and the Genealogy of the Modern Public Arena

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Produktbeschreibung

The book aims at reframing the discussion on the "public sphere," usually understood as the place where the public opinion is formed, through rational discussion. The aim of this book is to give an account of this rationality, and its serious shortcomings, examining the role of the media and the confusing of public roles and personal identity. It focuses in particular on the role of the theatrical and comical in the historical development of the public sphere, and in this manner reformulating definitions of common sense, personal identity, and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 694g
• ISBN-13: 9780415623919
• ISBN-10: 041562391X
• Artikelnr.: 35451958

Autorenporträt

Arpad Szakolczai is Professor of Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: The Public Sphere as a Theatrical Arena of Mocking
Contest: Comedy, Mask, Laughter 1. The Public and Its Masks: Permanent
Hyper-Critique and Hypocritical Performance 2. Nietzsche's Intuitions: From
Theatre Through Humanist Philology to Richard Wagner, or the Genealogy of
the Modern World As Stage 3. Ridiculing as Public Weapon Part 2: The
Rebirth of Theatre as Comedy out of the Spirit of the Byzantium 4. The
Byzantine Spirit and Its Sources 5. Transmitting, Receiving and Nurturing
the Byzantine Spirit 6. The Rise of Theatre in Venice Part 3: The Effect
Mechanism of Commedia dell'Arte: Visions and Realities of Commedification
7. Commedia dell'Arte: Schismogenic Sub-Plots and Irresistible Stock-Types
8. Shakespeare: The Tragedy of World History Being a Comedy 9. Representing
Representation: Visionary Images of Commedia dell'Arte Part 4: The Rebirth
of Commedia dell'Arte as the Avant-garde 10. The Rebirth of Pierrot as
Suffering Victim 11. Obsessed with Paris and Public Fame: Richard Wagner,
the Mimomaniac Revolutionary 12. Pierrot and Pulcinella in Between Paris
and Petersburg: The Avant-Garde of Diaghilev and Meyerhold. Conclusion.