Stoicism and Performance
A Joyful Materialism
Published on 1. November 2019
Book
Hardback
184 pages
978-90-04-40953-8 (ISBN)
Description
Power's Stoicism and Performance presents Stoicism as a means of navigating key debates and concepts in contemporary theatre and performance. Stoicism has influenced many of the most cited radical thinkers in the discipline of theatre and performance studies; for instance Deleuze, Foucault, Kristeva, Agamben. A central aim of this work is to bring Stoicism more explicitly into the fold of the discipline, and to use Stoicism to think differently about performance. With a series of chapters covering themes such as performativity, embodiment, emotion, affect and spectatorship, this book finds points of encounter between Stoicism and contemporary understandings and practices of performance. It presents these encounters as modes of transformative experience in relation to our being in the world.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
416 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-40953-8 (9789004409538)
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Person
Cormac Power, Ph.D. (Glasgow University, 2006) is a Senior Lecturer in Drama at Northumbria University at Newcastle. He is author of Presence in Play: A Critique of Theories Presence in the Theatre (Rodopi, 2008).
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction
?1Philosophy
?1The Crystal Theatre
?2Theatre and Estrangement
?2Emotion
?1The Problematic Nature of Emotions
?2Working with Emotion as Stoic/Actor
?3Action
?1Action as Problematic Concept
?2Action in the Theatre
?3Action in Stoicism
?4Action for Actors and Stoics
?4Body
?1Mind-Body Dualism
?2Bodies and Limits
?3Stoicism and the Neutral Body
?4Contact Improvisation Dance: A Stoic Reading
?5Performativity
?1Napoleon and Performativity
?2A Contemporary Model of Performativity
?3A Stoic Version of Performativity
?6Joy
?1Joy as Affective Experience of Stoic Mode of Subjectivity
?2Theories of Affect in Theatre
?3Theatre and Stoic Joy
?7Miscellany
?1Mindfulness and the Present Moment
?2Athletics and Stoic Performance
?3Kristeva, Fantasy and Stoic Improvisation
?4Acting with Reservation
?5Agamben and the Persona
Works Cited
Index
Introduction
?1Philosophy
?1The Crystal Theatre
?2Theatre and Estrangement
?2Emotion
?1The Problematic Nature of Emotions
?2Working with Emotion as Stoic/Actor
?3Action
?1Action as Problematic Concept
?2Action in the Theatre
?3Action in Stoicism
?4Action for Actors and Stoics
?4Body
?1Mind-Body Dualism
?2Bodies and Limits
?3Stoicism and the Neutral Body
?4Contact Improvisation Dance: A Stoic Reading
?5Performativity
?1Napoleon and Performativity
?2A Contemporary Model of Performativity
?3A Stoic Version of Performativity
?6Joy
?1Joy as Affective Experience of Stoic Mode of Subjectivity
?2Theories of Affect in Theatre
?3Theatre and Stoic Joy
?7Miscellany
?1Mindfulness and the Present Moment
?2Athletics and Stoic Performance
?3Kristeva, Fantasy and Stoic Improvisation
?4Acting with Reservation
?5Agamben and the Persona
Works Cited
Index