Title: Bodied spaces : phenomenology and performance in contemporary drama /
Authors: Garner, Stanton B., 1955-
Publisher: Cornell University Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Theater Philosophy.; Movement (Acting); Theater audiences Psychology.
Contents: Phenomenology and performance: Beckett, Merleau-Ponty, and the phenomenological body; staging the body: toward a phenomenology of mise-en-scene -- (Dis)figuring space: visual field in Beckett's late plays; modernist scenography and the theater of form; light, darkness, and the image in flight; movement, depthless space, ex-centricity; "...still living flesh" -- Object, objectivity, and the phenomenal body; staging "things": realism and the theatrical object; function and physiology: Shepard's props; (dis)placing the body: The chairs and Happy days; phenomenal fields: The caretaker -- The performing "I": language and the histrionics of place; re-embodying the word: struck dumb; deixis and the site of utterance: Breaking the silence, American buffalo, Not I; language as mise-en-scene; scenic negotiation: No man's land; the discourse of theater: Offending the audience -- Post-Brechtian anatomies: the politics of embodiment; Brecht, Verfremdung, and the suffering body; the body and beyond: Trotsky in exile and Marat/Sade; violence and the trauma of representation: Lear -- Female landscapes: phenomenology and gender; (En)gendering pain: the Conduct of life; movement, body, space: Vinegar Tom, A mouthful of birds, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf; pregnancy and embodiment: Gestation, Spell #7.