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Pleasure revolution possibility
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Deposited on behalf of the author. © 2011 Dr. Jena A. Zelezny ; The early work of Bertolt Brecht is relegated to an inferior position in the canon often placed in the category of juvenilia and given the deprecating description of anarchistic or immature. This thesis examines three of the early plays—Baal, In the Jungle of Cities and the Life of Edward II of England―chosen for their open form of dramaturgy and for their subject matter. The aim of producing new readings of these plays is to assess their contribution to the understanding of the discourse on sexuality, race and class the rhetoric of benevolence and the performativity of power. Judith Butler’s work which reconsiders the basis for assumptions made about how gender is constituted is apposite for this assessment not only because her work challenges foundations but because I establish that there is an alignment between the analytical frameworks used by Butler and the dramaturgical methods used by Brecht. The creative work of the thesis draws inspiration from this alignment and attempts to develop a dramaturgy, a set of practices, informed by Brecht, Butler and the demands of the material. It is my contention that Butler’s theory of performativity, and its relevance to aesthetic contexts, remains under-developed for its potential to revolutionize practice. Further, I suggest that Butler’s theory and Brecht’s early dramaturgy comprise the modality through which the particular agency of theatre can be seen to communicate the complex processes at work in the way the social world is made. The creative work takes form as a script framed by a description of the developmental process and methodology, together with a possible treatment which incorporates techniques devised to problematize and challenge key theatrical paradigms. The framing also outlines the way in which the alignment between Brecht and Butler tests and defines the limits of Brechtian Gestus—which privileges the performer—the limits of self knowledge, and consequently, knowledge of Others. The title of the thesis refers not only to the pleasure of creative thinking and play with which the theory is approached but to the way in which foundational fictions and cultural sedimentation are dissolved. The concept of revolution is used to describe the expansion of analytical frameworks used by both Brecht and Butler in their ground-breaking and sustained efforts to explicate processes such as subject formation, agency and the processes of abjection. Possibility is perhaps the most difficult of the three notions to define. I advocate for the sense of the word which focuses not on utopian fantasy or science fiction but on the pragmatics of that which is actually negotiable or achievable within the mangle of power and knowledge.
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'Baal'; 'In the Jungle of Cities'; 'Life of Edward II of England'; agency; Bertolt Brecht; bodies and pleasure; class; deconstruction; dialectics; dramaturgy; Epic theatre; fear of the other; gender; Gestus; heteronormativity; historicization; J. L. Austin; Jacques Derrida; Judith Butler; Michel Foucault; performance; performative; performativity; power; processes of abjection; race; re-signification; regulation and sexuality; Sigmund Freud; stubborn attachment; subversive discontinuity; transgression; universality; Verfremdungseffekt; Walter Benjamin
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/36551
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Strategy and tactics ; an examination of the power relationships in the strategy collector card game Magic: the Gathering
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La "poetica dell'incontrollabilità": l'Endymion di Keats, la lingua e i periodici romantici ; The "Poetics of Uncontrollability": Keats's "Endymion", Language and Romantic Periodicals
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ANSELMO, ANNA. - : Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2011. : MILANO, 2011
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Governing through early childhood curriculum, "the child," and "community": ideologies of socialist Hungary and neoliberal Australia
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Discourse and Power in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion
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In: Studies in Literature and Language; Vol 3, No 3 (2011): Studies in Literature and Language; 146-152 ; 1923-1563 ; 1923-1555 (2011)
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Der theoretische Raum der Wissenschaftssprache : Untersuchungen über die funktionale Konstitution einer Wissenschaftssprachtheorie und deren Anwendung in der Praxis
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UB Frankfurt Linguistik
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Postmodern Alienation: Projecting Worlds/Feigning Subjects
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In: Theses and Dissertations (2010)
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Diferenças culturais na cducação: discursos, desentendimentos e tensões ; Cultural differences in education: discourses, disagreements and tensions
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Dizer a verdade no teatro moderno: Ricardo III, Hamlet e Rei Lear ; To tell the truth in modern theatre: Richard III, Hamlet and King Lear
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In: Revista Letras; v. 82 (2010) ; 2236-0999 ; 0100-0888 ; 10.5380/rel.v82i0 (2010)
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