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Spectral characters : genre and materiality on the modern stage /

"Theater's materiality and reliance on human actors has traditionally put it at odds with modernist principles of aesthetic autonomy and depersonalization. Spectral Characters argues that modern dramatists in fact emphasized the extent to which humans are fictional, made and changed by cos...

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Main Author:	Balkin, Sarah, 1982- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Drama > 19th century > History and criticism. Characters and characteristics in literature. Human body in literature. Drama. 1800-1899 Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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