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Acting Up
Jeffrey M. Leichman
其他書名
Staging the Subject in Enlightenment France
出版
Bucknell University Press
, 2016
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / European / French
Literary Criticism / Drama
Performing Arts / Acting & Auditioning
Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism
ISBN
1611487242
9781611487244
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DUAqjgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Acting concentrated both the aspirations and anxieties of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, where theater was a defining element of urban sociability. In Acting Up: Staging the Subject in Enlightenment France, Jeffrey M. Leichman argues for a new understanding of the relationship between performance and self. Innovative interpretations of La Chauss e, Rousseau, Diderot, R tif, Beaumarchais, and others demonstrate how the figure of the actor threatened ancien r gime moral hierarchies by decoupling affect from emotion. As acting came to be understood as an embodied practice of individual freedom, attempts to alternately perfect and repress it proliferated. Across religious diatribes and sentimental comedies, technical manuals and epistolary novels, Leichman traces the development of early modern acting theories that define the aesthetics, philosophy, and politics of the performed subject. Acting Up weaves together cultural studies, literary analysis, theater history, and performance studies to establish acting as a key conceptual model for the subject, for the Enlightenment, and for our own time.