Gadamer, History and the Classics : Fugard, Marowitz, Berkoff, and Harrison Rewrite the Theatre
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory
ISBN-10
0820452653
ISBN-13
9780820452654
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 29th, 2002
Print length
275 Pages
Weight
534 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 23.50 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Literary theory
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Should The Merchant of Venice be staged post-Holocaust? How was Antigone (an icon of «noble» suffering in the Western liberal humanist tradition) received in Apartheid-riven South Africa? These are some of the questions confronted in this examination of the potential of rewriting the classics to produce new or altered meanings by virtue and not in spite of such works’ cultural cachet. Too often the space that exists between present realities and the interpretative stasis that typifies our reception of canonical texts is overlooked or used to bolster fruitless «canon-busting» polemics. This book persuasively advocates the productive potential of rewriting the canon whereby we are challenged to «re-cognize» that the often unsatisfactory absolutes with which we attempt to rationalize the world are inextricably bound up with, shaped and sustained by our hermeneutically dulled reception of «high» culture.
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