Second nature : comic performance and philosophy /: comic performance and philosophy. (2022)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Second nature : comic performance and philosophy /: comic performance and philosophy. (2022)
- Main Title:
- Second nature : comic performance and philosophy
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Josephine Gray and Lisa Trahair.
- Editors:
- Gray, Josephine
Trahair, Lisa, 1962- - Contents:
- Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Comedy: Towards an Alternative History of Mimesis, by María J. Ortega Máñez Chapter 2. The Two Laughters of Lecoq: The Clown and the <span style="font-style:italic;">Bouffon, by Caterina Angela Agus, Giovani Fusetti and Davide Giovanzana Chapter 3. The Masked Comic Figure in Alain Badiou’s Philosophy, by Fred Dalmasso Chapter 4. The Body that Laughs and Cries: Helmuth Plessner’s Keys to Anthropology and Theatre, by Xavier Escribano Chapter 5. Valentin, Brecht and Comic Inelasticity: Ridiculing Rigidity as an Impediment to Social Change, by Meg Mumford Chapter 6. Happiness, Dead and Alive: Object Theatre as Philosophy of the Encounter, by Carolyn Shapiro Chapter 7. Living in the Doll House: Cavell, Comedy and <span style="font-style:italic;">The Ladies Man, by Lisa Trahair Chapter 8. Trouble in Paradise?: Impotence and Comedy, by Lisabeth During Chapter 9. “Only What Is Born Lives”: Kafka L.O.L., by Jean-Michel Rabaté Chapter 10. The Grotesque: Comic Performance and the Paradox of Acting, by Josephine Gray About the Authors
- Publisher Details:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication Date:
- 2022
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 792.2301
Comedy -- Philosophy
Comic, The
Body language - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781786615107
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781786615091
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.738675
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