The problems of viewing performance : epistemology and other minds /

"The Problems of Viewing Performance challenges long-held assumptions by considering the ways in which knowledge is received by more than a single audience member, and breaks new ground by, counterintuitively, claiming that viewing performance is not a shared experience. Given that viewers come...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bennett, Michael Y., 1980- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Series:Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I
  • A public experience: but is it shared?
  • Knowledge, (Dis)agreement, and other minds
  • A public reality of one's own
  • Part II
  • Epistemic problems-Hamlet and Horatio's "Hamlet" ... in light of other minds
  • Temporal-spatial problems
  • Border progressions and locating the self: mobility and immobility in Le jeu de Saint Nicholas and The castle of perseverance
  • Contextual problems Writing and unwriting contexts: translating public and private experience in Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul
  • Lingual problems (private and public) performances of the self: the performance of language and the self in Susan Jahoda's Flight patterns
  • (Post/trans)script
  • "What do you feel?" ...now.