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Writing and the Modern Stage
註釋Modernism's negative theatrics. Introduction: negative theatrics -- The presence of the stage, again -- Drama and the present: Peter Azondi and Bertolt Brecht -- The "wrong life" of performance: Adorno and the "primacy of the text"--The readings. "Something stranger yet": theatrical distractions in Henry James and Gertrude Stein -- Henry James. The beast in the sentence: writing theatrical space -- "Something ... had been wanted in the picture": disrupted image in The ambassadors -- Gertrude Stein. Beyond antitheatricality: "plays" -- Negativity beyond contradiction: Paisieu's differential landscape the (dis- -- )continuous present: Four saints in three acts -- "Gesture towards the universe": theater as utopia in Waiting for Godot -- "What is there to recognize?": Godot and the dramatic present -- "All the dead voices": writing and the real -- Utopia in attendance -- Towards a new monologue: Beckett's "scribal act" -- Beyond the present: playwrights at the turn of the millennium. Introduction: staging writing today -- Finding texts -- The silly word "faithfulness": gatz -- The promise of "playwrighting": Suzan-Lori Parks -- "Watch me work": writing as (counter- ) performance -- Writing the death of the last black man -- "Grave departures": the theatrics of mourning -- The burnin page -- "Land:/ho!": textual performance and theatrical utopia -- "Small, fierce creatures": Mac Wellman's auratic theater -- Mouthing off: a murder of crows -- The other axis -- "This will kill that": speculations -- Coda: girl gone