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Robert Lepage and Ex Machina's theatricality is interdisciplinary and intercultural, and, inevitably, characterised by intense hybridity. These complex features - while the source of an internationally celebrated theatrical innovation, and considerable pleasure for audiences - have nevertheless also prompted notable criticism. Robert Lepage / Ex Machina: Revolutions in Theatrical Space reads against the grain of criticism, providing readers with a fresh, practice-based and critical perspective by arguing that these innovative aesthetic practices operate simultaneously as positive cultural principles. Drawing directly on case studies of process and a wide range of productions, and building from in-depth interviews, this book intertwines theoretical and practical concerns, weighing them in balance, and, in doing so, produces for the reader a new critical perspective on Robert Lepage and Ex Machina. Through the course of his analysis, James Reynolds illustrates that underpinning the interdisciplinary eclecticism of Ex Machina's practice is a profound engagement with social, cultural and political difference. Running through the work is a drive to create performances built around a principle of contradiction, through which audiences can apprehend difference in its myriad, infinite forms. Consequently, Robert Lepage / Ex Machina explores this embracing of difference in all its depth and complexity, opening a key way for readers to develop both their practical and theoretical appreciation of this practice. At the same time, the discourse around this vital, forward-looking practice is rebooted, not only by re-thinking its contribution to the vocabulary of drama and theatre, but also through revealing and assessing the critical discourse it initiates through performance.

Theatrical companies --- Troupes de théâtre --- History. --- Ex Machina (Theater company)

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In Singular Creatures Mark Kingwell plumbs the depths of cultural and political meaning in the apparent transition to posthuman life. Can humans and their own creations co-exist in a cyberflesh world, or is a struggle for superiority inevitable? Singular Creatures is an attempt at sketching the field before any deadly battle is joined.

Artificial intelligence. --- Human beings --- Technology --- Philosophy. --- AI. --- Alien. --- Alienation. --- Allegory. --- Anxiety. --- Artifacts. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Biological. --- Black Mirror. --- Blade Runner. --- Entities. --- Ex Machina. --- Fear. --- Frankenstein. --- Her. --- Intelligent. --- Karel Capek. --- Life. --- Lifeform. --- Monster. --- Overlord. --- Political. --- Posthuman. --- RUR. --- Robot. --- Rossums Universal. --- Singularity. --- Star. --- Subjugates. --- Superior. --- Technology. --- Terminator. --- Trek. --- Worker. --- consciousness. --- consumption. --- cultural. --- cyberflesh. --- dreams. --- forced labour. --- golem. --- happiness. --- hopes. --- humans. --- machines. --- non-human. --- production. --- purpose. --- real. --- revolt. --- sentient. --- speculative. --- violence.

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What do we mean when we say that a novel's conclusion "feels right"? How did feeling, form, and the sense of right and wrong get mixed up, during the nineteenth century, in the experience of reading a novel? Good Form argues that Victorian readers associated the feeling of narrative form-of being pulled forward to a satisfying conclusion-with inner moral experience. Reclaiming the work of a generation of Victorian "intuitionist" philosophers who insisted that true morality consisted in being able to feel or intuit the morally good, Jesse Rosenthal shows that when Victorians discussed the moral dimensions of reading novels, they were also subtly discussing the genre's formal properties.For most, Victorian moralizing is one of the period's least attractive and interesting qualities. But Good Form argues that the moral interpretation of novel experience was essential in the development of the novel form-and that this moral approach is still a fundamental, if unrecognized, part of how we understand novels. Bringing together ideas from philosophy, literary history, and narrative theory, Rosenthal shows that we cannot understand the formal principles of the novel that we have inherited from the nineteenth century without also understanding the moral principles that have come with them. Good Form helps us to understand the way Victorians read, but it also helps us to understand the way we read now.

Ethics in literature. --- English fiction --- History and criticism. --- 1800-1899 --- Analogy. --- Anecdote. --- Autobiography. --- Backstory. --- Bildungsroman. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Character (arts). --- Charles Dickens. --- Conscience. --- Consciousness. --- Crime fiction. --- Criticism. --- Critique of Pure Reason. --- D. A. Miller. --- Daniel Deronda. --- Deus ex machina. --- E. M. Forster. --- Edward Bulwer-Lytton. --- Elizabeth Gaskell. --- Epic poetry. --- Ethics. --- Eugene Aram. --- Explanation. --- Fiction. --- Franco Moretti. --- Fredric Jameson. --- Genre fiction. --- Genre. --- George Eliot. --- George Meredith. --- Good and evil. --- Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals. --- Gwendolen Harleth. --- Gwendolen. --- Halpern. --- Historical fiction. --- Humour. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- Ian Watt. --- Illustration. --- Intuitionism. --- Jack Sheppard. --- James Clerk Maxwell. --- John Stuart Mill. --- Johns Hopkins. --- Jonathan Wild. --- Laughter. --- Lecture. --- Leopold Zunz. --- Literary criticism. --- Literary realism. --- Literature. --- Mary Barton. --- Meditations. --- Middlemarch. --- Misery (novel). --- Morality. --- Narration. --- Narrative structure. --- Narrative. --- Newgate novel. --- Novel. --- Novelist. --- Oxford University Press. --- Parody. --- Paul Clifford. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Poetry. --- Political philosophy. --- Practical reason. --- Probability. --- Prose. --- Publication. --- Quantity. --- Reason. --- Ridicule. --- Roland Barthes. --- Rookwood (novel). --- Sensation novel. --- Steven Marcus. --- Subplot. --- Suggestion. --- Teleology. --- The Intuitionist. --- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. --- The Marriage Plot. --- The Other Hand. --- The Pickwick Papers. --- Theft. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Usage. --- Utilitarianism. --- Victorian literature. --- William Harrison Ainsworth. --- William Whewell. --- Writer. --- Writing.