By Saye Theatre Group Translated in Persian by :Mehdi Mashhour & Sara Rasouli publisher: Mah o Khorshid publication “Erika Fischer-Lichte, whose Semiotics of the Theatre is a key work in that field, has produced in The Show and the Gaze of Theatre another wide-ranging and admirably comprehensive guide, this one to the emerging fields of intercultural theatre, performance, and current trends in theatre historiography and theory. I warmly recommend the book to all readers interested in the most current thought in these fields.”—Marvin Carlson, Graduate Center, City University of New York “In this book Germany’s—and probably Europe’s—leading theorist and historian of theatre gives a wonderfully clear and truly exciting account of what is cutting edge in her discipline. Erika Fischer-Lichte’s book can be read as a practical introduction to theatre studies, as a history of theatre studies as an academic discipline, and as an individual and highly actualized vision of this field with which colleagues and students will argue but which everyone in the field and interested readers outside the field will gratefully acknowledge. This book has all the ingredients of a future classic on this discipline if not of the humanities as a whole.”—Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University Theatre, in some respects, resembles a market. Stories, rituals, ideas, perceptive modes, conversations, rules, techniques, behavior patterns, actions, language, and objects constantly circulate back and forth between theatre and the other cultural institutions that make up everyday life in the twentieth century. These exchanges, which challenge the established concept of theatre in a way that demands to be understood, form the core of Erika Fischer-Lichte’s dynamic book. Each eclectic essay investigates the boundaries that separate theatre from other cultural domains. Every encounter between theatre and other art forms and institutions renegotiates and redefines these boundaries as part of an ongoing process. Drawing on a wealth of fascinating examples, both historical and contemporary, Fischer-Lichte reveals new perspectives in theatre research from quite a number of different approaches. Energetically and excitingly, she theorizes history, theorizes and historicizes performance analysis, and historicizes theory. Table of contents: Introduction: Theatre Studies from a European Perspective PART I: THEATRE AS CULTURE Theatre and the Civilizing Process: An Approach to the History of Acting Discovering the Spectator: Changes to the Paradigm of Theatre in the Twentieth Century From Theatre to Theatricality: How to Construct Reality What Are the Rules of the Game? Some Remarks on The Yellow Jacket The Aesthetics of Disruption: German Theatre in the Age of the Media PART II: THEATRE CROSS-CULTURE In Search of a New Theatre: Retheatricalization as Productive Reception of Far Eastern Theatre Familiar and Foreign Theatres: The Intercultural Trend in Contemporary Theatre Changing Theatrical Codes: Toward a Semiotics of Intercultural Performance Intercultural Aspects in Postmodern Theatre: The Japanese Version of Chekhov’s Three Sisters All the World’s a Stage: The Theatrical Metaphor in the Baroque and Postmodernism Passage to the Realm of Shadows: Robert Wilson’s King Lear in Frankfurt Returning the Gaze: Between Cultural Performance and Performance Art Performance Art and Ritual: Bodies in Performance PART IV: THEATRE AND THEORY Avant-garde and Postmodernism: Theatre between Cultural Crisis and Cultural Change Walter Benjamin’s “Allegory” Signs of Identity: The Dramatic Character as “Name” and “Body” The Quest for Meaning Written Drama/Oral Performance Theatre Historiography and Performance Analysis: Different Fields, Common Approaches? Leave a Reply Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published.CommentName* Email* Website Please enter the correct answer: Time limit is exhausted. Please reload the CAPTCHA. − 1 = 1
