Table of Contents
Foreword
Theatricality: From Oral Traditions to Televised “Realities”
Theatricality as Estrangement of Art and Life In the Russian Avant-garde
The Invention of “Theatricality”: Rereading Bernard Dort and Roland Barthes
The Structure of Theater: A Japanese View of Theatricality
Theatricality: The Specificity of Theatrical Language
Acting: The Quintessence of Theatricality
Walking and Other Choreographic Tactics: Danced Inventions of Theatricality and Performativity
Theatricality from the Performative Perspective
Witnessing Woyzeck: Theatricality and the Empowerment of the Spectator
The Emperor’s New Clothes: The Naked Body and Theories of Performance
The Politics of Discourse: Performativity meets Theatricality
Could the World become a Stage? Theatricality and Metaphorical Structures
Theatricality and Cognitive Science: The Audience’s Perception and Reception
The Resistance to Theatricality
The Fall of Theatricality in the Age of Modernity
Digital Baroque: Via Viola or the Passage of Theatricality
Esope au feminin: Marie de France et la politique de l’interculturalite (review)
Gender, Rhetoric and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing (review)
Caliban’s Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy (review)
Writing History, Writing Trauma (review)
The Romance of Adultery: Queenship and Sexual Transgression in Old French Literature (review)
La Vengeance dans la litterature d’Ancien Regime (review)