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Power's Stoicism and Performance presents Stoicism as a means of navigating key debates and concepts in contemporary theatre and performance. Stoicism has influenced many of the most cited radical thinkers in the discipline of theatre and performance studies; for instance Deleuze, Foucault, Kristeva, Agamben. A central aim of this work is to bring Stoicism more explicitly into the fold of the discipline, and to use Stoicism to think differently about performance. With a series of chapters covering themes such as performativity, embodiment, emotion, affect and spectatorship, this book finds points of encounter between Stoicism and contemporary understandings and practices of performance. It presents these encounters as modes of transformative experience in relation to our being in the world.

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Author:   Cormac Power
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   56
Weight:   0.427kg
ISBN:  

9789004409538

ISBN 10:   900440953
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   01 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1Philosophy 1The Crystal Theatre 2Theatre and Estrangement 2Emotion 1The Problematic Nature of Emotions 2Working with Emotion as Stoic/Actor 3Action 1Action as Problematic Concept 2Action in the Theatre 3Action in Stoicism 4Action for Actors and Stoics 4Body 1Mind-Body Dualism 2Bodies and Limits 3Stoicism and the Neutral Body 4Contact Improvisation Dance: A Stoic Reading 5Performativity 1Napoleon and Performativity 2A Contemporary Model of Performativity 3A Stoic Version of Performativity 6Joy 1Joy as Affective Experience of Stoic Mode of Subjectivity 2Theories of Affect in Theatre 3Theatre and Stoic Joy 7Miscellany 1Mindfulness and the Present Moment 2Athletics and Stoic Performance 3Kristeva, Fantasy and Stoic Improvisation 4Acting with Reservation 5Agamben and the Persona Works Cited Index

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Cormac Power, Ph.D. (Glasgow University, 2006) is a Senior Lecturer in Drama at Northumbria University at Newcastle. He is author of Presence in Play: A Critique of Theories Presence in the Theatre (Rodopi, 2008).

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