Comparative Criticism
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 19, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780521622417
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary theory; Comparative Literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General
First sentence: Philosophy and the theatre are in many ways opposites: the one relies on language as its only medium of representation, the other is plurimedial and embeds language in the spatial, situational and visual contexts of moving bodies and objects; the one is abstractly discursive, where the other is the representation of an action, a myth, a plot; the one speaks in propria persona where the other has fictional personae speak for themselves; the one does not need an audience where the other is always public.