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The Theatrical Spectaculum - An Anthropological Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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The Theatrical Spectaculum - An Anthropological Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology
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This book offers a new mythic perspective on the secret of the
allure and survival of a current-archaic institution-the Western
theatre-in an era of diverse technological media. Central to the
theory is the spectaculum-a stage "world" that mirrors a
monotheistic cosmic order. Tova Gamliel here not only alerts the
reader to the possibility of the spectaculum's existence, but also
illuminates its various structural dimensions: the cosmological,
ritual, and sociological. Its cosmo-logical meaning is a
Judeo-Christian monotheistic consciousness of non-randomness, an
exemplary order of the world that the senses perceive. The ritual
meaning denotes the centrality of the spectaculum, as the theatre
repeatedly reenacts the mythical and paradigmatic event of Biblical
revelation. Its social meaning concerns any charismatic social
theory that is anchored in the epitomic structure of social
sovereignty-stage and audience-that the Western theatre advances in
an era characterized by hypermedia.
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