Theater As Metaphor.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin/Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH,
2019.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- 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.