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Drama According to Alexander Bakshy, 1916-1946 (Hardcover)
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Drama According to Alexander Bakshy, 1916-1946 (Hardcover)
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A Russian Jew who spent most of his life in England and America,
Alexander Bakshy (1885-1949) was a theater critic and literary
translator. He was also an innovative theorist who applied to
theater the discourse of self-reflexive modernism, prizing
anti-illusionist medium-awareness. Indeed, he was something of a
pioneer in the area of "spectatorship" and medium-awareness, going
so far as to argue in favor of the modernist idea of overt
presentationalism on stage as opposed to disingenuous
representationalism. One can see this presentational, or
anti-illusionist, argument at work in a number of pieces in Drama
According to Alexander Bakshy, 1916-1946-an edited collection that
also includes a lengthy contextualizing introduction and a
comprehensive bibliography of this Russian emigre's writings.
Alexander Bakshy's writings deserve to be better known, for his
sound critical-theoretical approach remains relevant to
contemporary aesthetic debate. Like many performance-minded
scholars today, Bakshy had a daredevil willingness to assess the
theater seriously and to encourage the kind of experimentation that
promised to advance the expressiveness of dramatic art. Yet
surprisingly, the full applicability of many of his pioneering
ideas about the drama has yet to be tested-a disheartening state of
affairs that, one hopes, the present volume will help to remedy.
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Imprint: |
Academica Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2021 |
Editors: |
James R Russo
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
212 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-68053-276-0 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-68053-276-6 |
Barcode: |
9781680532760 |
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