Words, Space, and the Audience: The Theatrical Tension Between Empiricism and Rationalism by Bennett, M.

Words, Space, and the Audience: The Theatrical Tension Between Empiricism and Rationalism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230116801)

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Words, Space, and the Audience: The Theatrical Tension Between Empiricism and Rationalism by Bennett, M.

Words, Space, and the Audience: The Theatrical Tension Between Empiricism and Rationalism

$54.99
Words, Space, and the Audience: The Theatrical Tension Between Empiricism and Rationalism by Bennett, M.

Words, Space, and the Audience: The Theatrical Tension Between Empiricism and Rationalism

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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In this unique study, Michael Y. Bennett re-reads four influential modern plays alongside their contemporary debates between rationalism and empiricism to show how these monumental achievements were thoroughly a product of their time, but also universal in their epistemological quest to understand the world through a rational and/or empirical model. Bennett contends that these plays directly engage in their contemporary epistemological debates rather than through the lens of a specific philosophy. Besides producing new, insightful readings of heavily-studied plays, the interdisciplinary (historical, philosophical, dramatic, theatrical, and literary) frame Bennett constructs allows him to investigate one of the most fundamental questions of the theatre - how does meaning get made? Bennett suggests that the key to unlocking theatrical meaning is exploring the tension between empirical and rational modes of understanding. The book concludes with an interview with performance artist Coco Fusco.

Author: M. Bennett
ISBN-10: 0230116809
ISBN-13: 9780230116801
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 07/03/2012
Pages: 179
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.70d
By M. Bennett
By M. Bennett
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Michael Y. Bennett is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA, where he teaches courses on modern drama. He is the author of: Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd (2011/2013); Words, Space, and the Audience (2012); Narrating the Past through Theatre (2012). He is the editor of Refiguring Oscar Wilde s Salome (2011) and the co-editor of Eugene O'Neill's One-Act Plays (2012). He is also Editor of The Edward Albee Review.

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