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Edges of Loss - From Modern Drama to Postmodern Theory (Hardcover, New)
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Edges of Loss - From Modern Drama to Postmodern Theory (Hardcover, New)
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
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One of the curious characteristics of much postmodern theory is the
attention it has paid to theater, an art form seemingly more in
danger of extinction today than perhaps ever in its history. Mark
Pizzato interrogates this curiosity, revealing it as an obsession
with the destruction of social institutions and the "universal
truths" of modernism. "Edges of Loss" explores the theatrics of
loss in the minds of authors, performers, spectators, and the
conflicting social orders of perversion, taboo, and the sacred.
Theater as a marginal form reveals the unstable edges of community
and the ways such community is imagined and staged.
The author initiates his approach to the question of loss through
an investigation of the psychohistory of modern and postmodern
stages: the return to ritual chorus and the belief in poetry in
Eliot's modern poetic drama, the nostalgia for a lost ritual "womb"
in Nietzsche's proto-postmodern views of ancient tragedy. Building
on this approach, Pizzato employs the techniques of
psycho-biography to reveal a common concern among both modernists
and postmodernists for the stage edge as a border, a gap, an
ambiguous juncture between the artist as a self and the artist as a
voice of the community. In the end, "Edges of Loss" establishes
this concern as a concern for the lost mother and a lost symbiosis
with something deeper and more true.
"An extraordinary and original study. . . a book that wrestles with
many current issues in theater and theory without submitting to the
common vagaries of those fields of study." --Anthony Kubiak
Mark Pizzato is Assistant Professor, Department of Dance and
Theatre, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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