Staging Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staging Desire write by Kim Marra. This book was released on 2002. Staging Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time
Kierkegaard and the Staging of Desire
Kierkegaard and the Staging of Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kierkegaard and the Staging of Desire write by Carl S. Hughes. This book was released on 2014-07-02. Kierkegaard and the Staging of Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theology in the modern era often assumes that the consummate form of theological discourse is objective prose—ignoring or condemning apophatic traditions and the spiritual eros that drives them. For too long, Kierkegaard has been read along these lines as a progenitor of twentieth-century neo-orthodoxy and a stern critic of the erotic in all its forms. In contrast, Hughes argues that Kierkegaard envisions faith fundamentally as a form of infinite, insatiable eros. He depicts the essential purpose of Kierkegaard’s writing as to elicit ever-greater spiritual desire, not to provide the satisfactions of doctrine or knowledge. Hughes’s argument revolves around close readings of provocative, disparate, and (in many cases) little-known Kierkegaardian texts. The thread connecting all of these texts is that they each conjure up some sort of performative “stage setting,” which they invite readers to enter. By analyzing the theological function of these texts, the book sheds new light on the role of the aesthetic in Kierkegaard’s authorship, his surprising affinity for liturgy and sacrament, and his overarching effort to conjoin eros for God with this-worldly love.
Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama
Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama write by Wendy Sutherland. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on eighteenth-century cultural productions, Wendy Sutherland examines how representations of race in philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, drama, and court painting influenced the construction of a white bourgeois German self. Sutherland positions her work within the framework of the transatlantic slave trade, showing that slavery, colonialism, and the triangular trade between Europe, West Africa, and the Caribbean function as the global stage on which German bourgeois dramas by Friedrich Wilhelm Ziegler, Ernst Lorenz Rathlef, and Theodor Körner (and a novella by Heinrich von Kleist on which Körner's play was based) were performed against a backdrop of philosophical and anthropological influences. Plays had an important role in educating the rising bourgeois class in morality, Sutherland argues, with fathers and daughters offered as exemplary moral figures in contrast to the depraved aristocracy. At the same time, black female protagonists in nontraditional dramas represent the boundaries of physical beauty and marriage eligibility while also complicating ideas of moral beauty embodied in the concept of the beautiful soul. Her book offers convincing evidence that the eighteenth-century German stage grappled with the representation of blackness during the Age of Goethe, even though the German states were neither colonial powers nor direct participants in the slave trade.
Staging the Gaze
Staging the Gaze - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staging the Gaze write by Barbara Freedman. This book was released on 1991. Staging the Gaze available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Staging Domesticity
Staging Domesticity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Staging Domesticity write by Wendy Wall. This book was released on 2002-01-10. Staging Domesticity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Interprets plays in light of their representations of domestic life in the early modern period.
