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Stoicism and Performance
A Joyful Materialism
Series: - Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Volume: 56
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Powerâs 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.
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).
Acknowledgements
Introduction
â1Philosophy
â1The Crystal Theatre
â2Theatre and Estrangement
â2Emotion
â1The Problematic Nature of Emotions
â2Working with Emotion as Stoic/Actor
â3Action
â1Action as Problematic Concept
â2Action in the Theatre
â3Action in Stoicism
â4Action for Actors and Stoics
â4Body
â1Mind-Body Dualism
â2Bodies and Limits
â3Stoicism and the Neutral Body
â4Contact Improvisation Dance: A Stoic Reading
â5Performativity
â1Napoleon and Performativity
â2A Contemporary Model of Performativity
â3A Stoic Version of Performativity
â6Joy
â1Joy as Affective Experience of Stoic Mode of Subjectivity
â2Theories of Affect in Theatre
â3Theatre and Stoic Joy
â7Miscellany
â1Mindfulness and the Present Moment
â2Athletics and Stoic Performance
â3Kristeva, Fantasy and Stoic Improvisation
â4Acting with Reservation
â5Agamben and the Persona
Works Cited
Index
Introduction
â1Philosophy
â1The Crystal Theatre
â2Theatre and Estrangement
â2Emotion
â1The Problematic Nature of Emotions
â2Working with Emotion as Stoic/Actor
â3Action
â1Action as Problematic Concept
â2Action in the Theatre
â3Action in Stoicism
â4Action for Actors and Stoics
â4Body
â1Mind-Body Dualism
â2Bodies and Limits
â3Stoicism and the Neutral Body
â4Contact Improvisation Dance: A Stoic Reading
â5Performativity
â1Napoleon and Performativity
â2A Contemporary Model of Performativity
â3A Stoic Version of Performativity
â6Joy
â1Joy as Affective Experience of Stoic Mode of Subjectivity
â2Theories of Affect in Theatre
â3Theatre and Stoic Joy
â7Miscellany
â1Mindfulness and the Present Moment
â2Athletics and Stoic Performance
â3Kristeva, Fantasy and Stoic Improvisation
â4Acting with Reservation
â5Agamben and the Persona
Works Cited
Index