Overview
- Deploys philosophical theories and concepts to interrogate 'theatricality'
- Explores the notions of theatricality, performativity and cognitive ecology across a wide range of examples and case studies
- Offers a diverse collection of essays engaging with a variety of disciplines and historical contexts
Part of the book series: Performance Philosophy (PPH)
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“Paavolainen suggestively traces the cultural dialectic between theatricality and performativity across a wide swath of modern culture. Reading theoretical texts from Plato to Michael Fried, the work of stage directors, the dramatic designs of Peter Shaffer and Samuel Beckett, machines for living from Le Corbusier to smart homes, and the work of a range of activist performance, Paavolainen searchingly unweaves the textures interanimating these two decisive terms of analysis, exploring the cognitive, philosophical, and social consequences enacted in the critical tension between seeing and doing, novelty and normativity. It's a striking, original book, certain to alter the ongoing encounter between theatre and performance studies.” (W. B. Worthen, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA)
“This a ‘knotty’ volume; but the ‘yarn’ it spins is new and refreshing. For a discipline that so often provides metaphors for everyday life, it offers exciting and provocative ways of envisaging the complex warp and weft of theatricality and performativity. It is an invaluable addition to an emerging literature that summons and employs sources beyond the familiars of continental theory, and reveals the very labour of creative work and its apprehension. From multiple threads of various deniers and hues, through the swift actions of an acute critical shuttle in highly original and increasingly complex Jacquard templates, Paavolainen weaves a vivid tapestry of dramaturgy.” (Mike Pearson, Aberystwyth University, UK)Authors and Affiliations
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Book Title: Theatricality and Performativity
Book Subtitle: Writings on Texture from Plato’s Cave to Urban Activism
Authors: Teemu Paavolainen
Series Title: Performance Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73226-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73225-1Published: 20 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10337-8Published: 15 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73226-8Published: 06 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-5589
Series E-ISSN: 2057-7176
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 286
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Performing Arts, Aesthetics, History of Philosophy