Incapacity: Wittgenstein, Anxiety, and Performance Behavior - Hardcover

Golub, Spencer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810129922 ISBN 13: 9780810129924

Verlag: NORTHWESTERN UNIV PR, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

In this highly original study of the nature of performance, Spencer Golub uses the insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein into the way language works to analyze the relationship between the linguistic and the visual in the work of a broad range of dramatists, novelists, and filmmakers, among them Richard Foreman, Mac Wellman, Peter Handke, David Mamet, and Alfred Hitchcock. Like Wittgenstein, these artists are concerned with the limits of language’s representational capacity. For Golub, it is these limits that give Wittgenstein’s thought a further, very personal significance—its therapeutic quality with respect to the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder from which he suffers.

Underlying what Golub calls “performance behavior” is Wittgenstein’s notion of “pain behavior”—that which gives public expression to private experience. Golub charts new directions for exploring the relationship between theater and philosophy, and even for scholarly criticism itself.

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SPENCER GOLUB, a professor of theater arts and performance studies, Slavic languages, and comparative literature at Brown University, is the author ofInfinity (Stage) (1999), The Recurrence of Fate: Theatre and Memory in Twentieth-Century Russia(1994), and Evreinov: The Theatre of Paradox and Transformation (1984).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: NORTHWESTERN UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0810129922
• ISBN 13: 9780810129924
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 290
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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