Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 272 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 359 g
Reihe: Studies in World Literature
Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 272 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 359 g
Reihe: Studies in World Literature
ISBN: 978-3-8382-0842-8
Verlag: ibidem
Anwar's book is the first in-depth study of the concept of metatheatre with reference to Nigerian drama including Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman (1975) and King Baabu (2002), Ola Rotimi's Kurunmi (1971) and Hopes of the Living Dead (1988), Femi Osofisan's The Chattering and the Song (1977) and Women of Owu (2006), Esiaba Irobi's Hangmen Also Die (1989), and Stella 'Dia Oyedepo's A Play That Was Never to Be (1998).
The perspectives of Bertolt Brecht (1936), Thomas J. Scheff (1963), and other theoreticians of dramatic distancing and metatheatre are used in the analyses and, where required, challenged through appropriate contextual and theoretical adjustments.
The book is the first attempt to illustrate how Brechtian approach to the display and generation of emotions can be revised through Scheff's model of emotional balance.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Afrikanische Literaturen
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatertheorie, Ästhetik des Theaters, Theaterkritik