Matthew Wilson Smith

The Nervous Stage

Nineteenth-Century Neuroscience and the Birth of Modern Theatre

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Produktbeschreibung

The Nervous Stage examines the relations between theatrical practices and the scientific study of the nervous system.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• UK edition
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780190644086
• ISBN-10: 0190644087
• Artikelnr.: 49135563

Autorenporträt

Matthew Wilson Smith is Associate Professor of German Studies and Theater & Performance Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of The Total Work of Art: From Bayreuth to Cyberspace (Routledge, 2007) and the editor of Georg Büchner: The Major Works (Norton, 2011)

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1: The Emptying of Gesture: Neurology and the British
Romantic Stage
* Chapter 2: From Gestures to Nerves: Woyzeck and the Barbel Fish
* Chapter 3: The Nervous System: Melodrama, Railway Trauma, and
Systemic Risk
* Chapter 4: The Inner Drama of the Body: Wagner's Neural Aesthetics
* Chapter 5: Theatre's Revenge: Charcot and the Grand Guignol
* Chapter 6: The Prison-house of Nerves: Zola and Strindberg
* Conclusion