{"product_id":"staging-the-savage-god-ralf-remshardt-9780809335510","title":"Staging the Savage God: The Grotesque in Performance","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this broadly conceived study, Ralf Remshardt delineates the theatre's deep connection with the grotesque and traces the historically extensive and theoretically intensive relationship between performance and its \"other,\" the grotesque. \u003ci\u003eStaging the Savage God: The Grotesque in Performance\u003c\/i\u003e examines the aesthetic complicity shared by the two in both art and theatre and presents a general theory of the grotesque. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Performing the grotesque is both a challenge to a culture's order and the affirmation of certain ethical principles that it recognizes as its own. Remshardt investigates the aesthetics and ideology of grotesque theatre from antiquity--in works such as \u003ci\u003eThe Bacchae \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThyestes\u003c\/i\u003e--to modernity--in \u003ci\u003eUbu Roi\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHamletmachine\u003c\/i\u003e--and opens up new critical possibilities for the analysis of both classical and avant-gardetheatre. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Divided into three sections, \u003ci\u003eStaging the Savage God \u003c\/i\u003efirst interrogates the grotesque as primarily a visual artistic and theatrical mode and then inventories various critical approaches to the grotesque, establishing the outlines of a theory with regard to drama. In the most extensive part of the study, Remshardt shifts his emphasis to the theatre of the grotesque, from self-consuming tragedies and the modernist trope of the artificial human figure to the characterology of the grotesque. Remshardt's conclusion takes bold steps toward unraveling the paradox inherent in the grotesque theatre. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Written in an engaging style and aided by nine illustrations, \u003ci\u003eStaging the Savage God \u003c\/i\u003eis a comprehensive and rigorous study that incorporates critical approaches from disciplines such as philosophy, psychoanalysis, art history, literature, and theatre to fully investigate the historical function of the grotesque in performance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ralf Remshardt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0809335514\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780809335510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Southern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/16\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Ralf Remshardt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47473934008575,"sku":"9780809335510","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d8da2aa2-b605-436b-8c9a-5c2da94040b4.jpg?v=1762313877","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/staging-the-savage-god-ralf-remshardt-9780809335510","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}