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To act, to do, to perform : drama and the phenomenology of action
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ISBN: 047210537X Year: 1994 Volume: *1 Publisher: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press

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To Act, To Do, To Perform ably demonstrates how the field of drama can offer distinctive answers to questions currently being asked in philosophy and literary theory. It is a phenomenological study of action using methods of philosophy, literary study, and dramatic theory. It is interdisciplinary in its approach, using concepts from Aristotle and Kenneth Burke through Heidegger to Lacan and Derrida. The chapters examine four dramatic works: the dimensions of action involving the active/passive position of a subject (in Waiting for Godot), the difference between withdrawal from action and performance (in The Three Sisters), and the visible or "demonic" element of the material act (in Macbeth). The final chapter on Hamlet examines the interplay of these elements as action is found to dismantle itself in performance even as it is being repeated. These analyses demonstrate the processes by which the representation of action intersects with a dismantling of action in a performative present. They indicate how ideas about both subjects and their acts are limited by the language that divides subjects from processes. Together they account for how a fuller sense of action, taken from drama rather than analytic philosophy, might dissolve conventional dichotomies between text and performance, subject and object, fiction and reality.

Ghosts: Death’s Double and the Phenomena of Theatre
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ISBN: 9780816645442 0816645442 9780816645459 0816645450 0816697124 Year: 2006 Publisher: Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press

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Comic persuasion: moral structure in British comedy from Shakespeare to Stoppard
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ISBN: 0520059174 Year: 1987 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press

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Drama --- English literature

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