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Elastizität : the poetics of space, movement and character in Frank Wedekind's theater
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- Creator
- Jennifer Ham
- Format
- Books
- Languages
- English, German
- Publication
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- New York : Peter Lang, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 214 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780820430836, 0820430838, 9781453909829, 1453909826
- OCLC
- ocn810273614
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Introduction -- Risk, Security and Modernity -- Elastizitat: A Modern Concept -- The Philosophical and Scientific Context -- "Thinking for Oneself" -- Constructing Worlds: Phenomenology -- Time and Space -- Character and Will -- Words -- "Quasi-Welten" -- ch. Two The Stage as World: Wedekind's Topology of Space and Time -- Closed and Open Settings -- The Naturalistic Stage -- Wedekind's Naturalistic Space -- Socio-Economic Details -- Public Locales -- Narrated Spaces -- Exteriors -- Geographical Setting -- Symbolic Space -- Antithetical Spaces -- ch. Three Genussmenschen and Ungluckswurmer: Wedekind's (Un)willing Subjects -- Wedekind's Dramatis Personae -- Historical and Literary Characters -- Class Attributes -- Physical Traits -- Inherent Contradictions -- Incongruity and Witz -- Gender and Sexual Politics -- Schonheitsideal -- Overcompensation -- Artistes manques -- The Steeplechase: Success and Failure -- Overdetermined Motivation -- The Impossibility of Character -- ch. Four Staging Bodies: A Grammar of Movement -- Revitalizing the Theater -- A Grammar of Movement -- Static and Dynamic -- Dramatizing Stillness -- Movement as Artistic Seduction -- The Tyranny of Language -- Body Talk -- Frantic and Epileptic Impulses -- The Hysterical and Melodramatic -- Biomechanics and the Discipline of Motion -- Elastic Education: Conditioning -- Biological Impetus -- Psychodrama: Impulsive and Compulsive Movement -- Criminal and Pathological Actions -- Violent Acts: Corporal Punishment -- Humiliation and Groveling -- Suicide -- Social Mobility -- Precarious Movement: The Social Rollercoaster -- ch. Five Motif Arrangement: Structural Coherences and Intentions -- From Biology to Ideology -- Wedekind's Dualism -- Incongruous Polarities -- Events and Outlooks -- Anti-dialogue -- Aphoristic Speech -- The Grotesque -- Antithesis: The Soul of Wit -- "Zirkusgedankenn" -- Tragedy or Comedy -- Concluding Remarks -- Wedekind's Debt to Naturalism and Science -- The Dramatist as Circus Performer and Contortionist