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Theater as Metaphor

✍ Scribed by Elena Penskaya (editor); Joachim Küpper (editor); European Research Council (ERC) (editor)

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Leaves
278
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

The papers of the present volume investigate the potential of the metaphor of life as theater for literary, philosophical, juridical and epistemological discourses from the Middle Ages through modernity, and focusing on traditions as manifold as French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian and Latin-American.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
I: Early Modern Variations
Between Metaphor and Cultural Practices: Theatrum and scena in the German- Speaking Sphere before 1648
Speсtacularity before the “Renaissance” of Theater: Visuality and Self-Image of the Quattrocento papacy
Literal and Figurative Uses of the Pícaro: Graded Salience in Seventeenth-Century Picaresque Narrations
Theater as Metaphor and Guiding Principle: The French Anecdote Tradition from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
“Dressed for life’s short comedy”: Desengaño and connivere libenter as Ethical Paradigms in William Shakespeare’s Plays
The Conceptualization of the World as Stage in Calderón and Cervantes – Christian Didacticism and its Ironic Rebuttal
The King as a “Maker” of Theater: Le ballet de la nuit and Louis XIV
War, Peace, and Territory in Late Eighteenth-Century Russian Outdoor Performances
Lucis an caliginis theatrum: Theatrical Metaphors in the Early Modern historia literaria
II: The Romantic Turn
Theater, World History, and Mythology: Theatrical Metaphors in Schelling’s Philosophy
The Philosophical Narrative as a Semiotic Laboratory of Theatrical Language: The Case of Jean Paul in the Context of the Russian Reception
Theatrical Metaphor and the Discourse of History: Nikolai Karamzin
Theater as Metaphor in the Drama of Alexander Ostrovsky
III: Twentieth-Century Experimentations and Theoretical Explorations
The Theater of the Absurd and the Absurdity of Theater: The Early Plays of Beckett and Ionesco
Chico Buarque’s Gota d’água, uma tragédia carioca: Theater as Metaphor in Brazil during the Military Dictatorship, 1964–1985
From theatrum mundi to Theatricality
Notes on Contributors

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