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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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : melodrama and the material occult
- The spectral individual : Ibsen's dead realism
- Imaginary characters : Wilde's unrealized personalities
- Language and materiality : Strindberg's vampiric narrators
- Old new materialisms : monist dramaturgy in Strindberg's The black glove
- Modernist afterlives : Genet, Kopit, Beckett.