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Author | : Martin Willis |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2016-06-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 113749994X |
This book considers scientific performances across two centuries, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Performances include demonstrations of technologies, experiments that look like theatre, theatre that looks like science, tourist representations and natural history film-making. Its key aim is to open debate on how scientific activity, both historical and contemporary, might be understood in the context of performance studies and the imaginative acts required to stage engaging performances. Scientific performances have become increasingly of interest to historians of science, literature and science scholars, and in the field of science studies. As yet, however, no work has sought to examine a range of scientific performances with the aim of interrogating and illuminating the kinds of critical and theoretical practices that might be employed to engage with them. With scientific performance likely to become ever more central to scholarly study in the next few years this volume offer a timely, and early, intervention in the existing debates, and aims, too, to be a touchstone for future work.
Author | : Kirsten Shepherd-Barr |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0691188238 |
Science on Stage is the first full-length study of the phenomenon of "science plays"--theatrical events that weave scientific content into the plot lines of the drama. The book investigates the tradition of science on the stage from the Renaissance to the present, focusing in particular on the current wave of science playwriting. Drawing on extensive interviews with playwrights and directors, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr discusses such works as Michael Frayn's Copenhagen and Tom Stoppard's Arcadia. She asks questions such as, What accounts for the surge of interest in putting science on the stage? What areas of science seem most popular with playwrights, and why? How has the tradition evolved throughout the centuries? What currents are defining it now? And what are some of the debates and controversies surrounding the use of science on stage? Organized by scientific themes, the book examines selected contemporary plays that represent a merging of theatrical form and scientific content--plays in which the science is literally enacted through the structure and performance of the play. Beginning with a discussion of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, the book traces the history of how scientific ideas (quantum mechanics and fractals, for example) are dealt with in theatrical presentations. It discusses the relationship of science to society, the role of science in our lives, the complicated ethical considerations of science, and the accuracy of the portrayal of science in the dramatic context. The final chapter looks at some of the most recent and exciting developments in science playwriting that are taking the genre in innovative directions and challenging the audience's expectations of a science play. The book includes a comprehensive annotated list of four centuries of science plays, which will be useful for teachers, students, and general readers alike.
Author | : Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2019-03-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1487519354 |
Science on Stage in Early Modern Spain features essays by leading scholars in the fields of literary studies and the history of science, exploring the relationship between technical innovations and theatrical events that incorporated scientific content into dramatic productions. Focusing on Spanish dramas between 1500 and 1700, through the birth and development of its playhouses and coliseums and the phenomenal success of its major writers, this collection addresses a unique phenomenon through the most popular, versatile, and generous medium of the time. The contributors tackle subjects and disciplines as diverse as alchemy, optics, astronomy, acoustics, geometry, mechanics, and mathematics to reveal how theatre could be used to deploy scientific knowledge. While Science on Stage contributes to cultural and performance studies it also engages with issues of censorship, the effect of the Spanish Inquisition on the circulation of ideas, and the influence of the Eastern traditions in Spain.
Author | : Lilian Pozzer Ardenghi |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9460911927 |
In this book, the authors argue that science concepts are more than what lecturers say and write on the board—science concepts cannot be abstracted from the complex performances that take place in the classroom.
Author | : Donna Governor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781681406237 |
"This book shows you how to plan a family science night at your school"--
Author | : William W. Demastes |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780472112029 |
How theater has challenged the mind/body dualism that underpins much of Western thought
Author | : Kerstin Frank |
Publisher | : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2017-08-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3823391429 |
This collection of essays examines the contribution of British plays to key social, political, and intellectual debates since 2000. It explores some of the most pressing concerns that have dominated the public discourse in Britain in the last decade, focusing on their representation in dramatic texts. Each essay provides an in-depth analysis of one play, assessing its particular contribution to the debate in question. The book aims to show how contemporary drama has developed unique ways to present the complexities and ambiguities of certain issues with aesthetic as well as emotional appeal.
Author | : Eva Giloi |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2022-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110571412 |
Staging Authority: Presentation and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe is a comprehensive handbook on how the presentation, embodiment, and performance of authority changed in the long nineteenth century. It focuses on the diversification of authority: what new forms and expressions of authority arose in that critical century, how traditional authority figures responded and adapted to those changes, and how the public increasingly participated in constructing and validating authority. It pays particular attention to how spaces were transformed to offer new possibilities for the presentation of authority, and how the mediatization of presence affected traditional authority. The handbook’s fourteen chapters draw on innovative methodologies in cultural history and the aligned fields of the history of emotions, urban geography, persona studies, gender studies, media studies, and sound studies.
Author | : Patrick D. Murphy |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1992-11-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
This book explores the most recent critical thinking on the relationship between the literary mode of the fantastic and the literary genre of drama with respect to modern theatre. Wide-ranging in time and space, the 14 essays assess 20th century dramatic works from the United States, Ireland, England, Western Europe, and the Caribbean.
Author | : Christian Clausen |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-12-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1839103434 |
This stimulating book proposes the concept of staging as a tool for planning and facilitating design and innovation activities. Drawing on a predominantly Scandinavian tradition of participatory design research and sociotechnical perspectives from actor–network theory, it discusses how staging can enable co-design, sustainable transitions and social and radical innovation.