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Spectral Characters - Genre and Materiality on the Modern Stage (Hardcover)
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Spectral Characters - Genre and Materiality on the Modern Stage (Hardcover)
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Theater's materiality and reliance on human actors has
traditionally put it at odds with modernist principles of aesthetic
autonomy and depersonalization. Spectral Characters argues that
modern dramatists in fact emphasized the extent to which humans are
fictional, made and changed by costumes, settings, props, and
spoken dialogue. Examining work by Ibsen, Wilde, Strindberg, Genet,
Kopit, and Beckett, the book takes up the apparent deadness of
characters whose selves are made of other people, whose thoughts
become exteriorized communication technologies, and whose bodies
merge with walls and furniture. The ghostly, vampiric, and
telepathic qualities of these characters, Sarah Balkin argues, mark
a new relationship between the material and the imaginary in modern
theater. By considering characters whose bodies respond to
language, whose attempts to realize their individuality collapse
into inanimacy, and who sometimes don't appear at all, the book
posits a new genealogy of modernist drama that emphasizes its
continuities with nineteenth-century melodrama and realism.
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