Nervous Stage - Nineteenth-Century Neuroscience and the Birth of Modern Theatre

Zusatztext ... this brilliant study is destined to become a standard in the field. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. Informationen zum Autor Matthew Wilson Smith is Associate Professor of German Studies and Theater & Performance Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of The Total Work of Art: From Bayreuth to Cyberspace (Routledge, 2007) and the editor of Georg Büchner: The Major Works (Norton, 2011) Klappentext The Nervous Stage examines the relations between theatrical practices and the scientific study of the nervous system. Zusammenfassung The Nervous Stage examines the relations between theatrical practices and the scientific study of the nervous system. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1: The Emptying of Gesture: Neurology and the British Romantic Stage Chapter 2: From Gestures to Nerves: Woyzeck and the Barbel Fish Chapter 3: The Nervous System: Melodrama, Railway Trauma, and Systemic Risk Chapter 4: The Inner Drama of the Body: Wagner's Neural Aesthetics Chapter 5: Theatre's Revenge: Charcot and the Grand Guignol Chapter 6: The Prison-house of Nerves: Zola and Strindberg Conclusion

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• Authors: Matthew Wilson Smith, Matthew Wilson (Associate Professor of Germ Smith, Matthew Wilson (Associate Professor of German and Theater & Performance Studies Smith, Smith Matthew Wilson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780190644086
• ISBN: 978-0-19-064408-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, c 1800 to c 1900, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Stagecraft & Scenography, History of Medicine, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Neurosciences