Ruins : Classical Theater and Broken Memory /
In ten wide-ranging case studies, theater history and performance theory are brought together to examine the texts, artifacts and icons left behind, reading them in fresh ways to offer an elegantly written, extended meditation on “how the aesthetic of ruins offered a model for an ideal that dislodge...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Theater--theory/text/performance.
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| Summary: | In ten wide-ranging case studies, theater history and performance theory are brought together to examine the texts, artifacts and icons left behind, reading them in fresh ways to offer an elegantly written, extended meditation on “how the aesthetic of ruins offered a model for an ideal that dislodged and ultimately stood in for the historic." |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780472131068 0472131060 9780472124398 0472124390 |