In his essay-manifesto of 1999, Zenon Fajfer defined liberature - a literary genre encompassing works whose authors intentionally design the shape of the book, so that it matches their textual message. Extending beyond the growing literary research on liberature, this book presents the theatrical co...

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1. Verfasser:	Biela, Katarzyna ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Krakow Jagiellonian University Press 2023
Ausgabe:	First edition
Schriftenreihe:	Topomo
Schlagworte:	Johnson, B. S. / (Bryan Stanley) / 1933-1973 / Criticism and interpretation Fajfer, Zenon / Criticism and interpretation Bazarnik, Katarzyna / Criticism and interpretation
Online-Zugang:	DE-12 DE-473 URL des Erstveröffentlichers
Zusammenfassung:	In his essay-manifesto of 1999, Zenon Fajfer defined liberature - a literary genre encompassing works whose authors intentionally design the shape of the book, so that it matches their textual message. Extending beyond the growing literary research on liberature, this book presents the theatrical contexts of the genre. Grounded in original archival research, it discusses the theatre practice of Zenon Fajfer and Katarzyna Bazarnik (Zenkasi), as well as the post-war British avant-garde author, B. S. Johnson, whom they see as a liberatic author avant la lettre. Tracking the connections between their work in different media, the monograph considers how their theatrical experience may be related to the invention of unconventional aesthetic solutions in literature
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2024) Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part I: Negotiating the Medium -- Theatre and the Book -- Medium as language -- Theatre: from a sign system to an ephemeral performance -- Book: when the whole volume comes into play -- Medium as text -- Texts in theatre: from drama, to script, towards a performance -- Text embedded in the book -- Medium as space -- Spaces in theatre -- Space of the book -- Medium as people -- Actors -- Spectators -- Readers -- Liberature and intertextuality -- Liberatic plays and adaptation -- Part II: The Body in the Earlier Plays -- B.S. Johnson - You're Human Like the Rest of Them -- The body and its designer -- Social apocalypse: secularisationin Britain in the 1960s -- Transformational narratives and the change "from within" -- Authority -- Personal apocalypse: ageing -- Body and literature -- Ageing in culture -- Ageing in theatre -- Johnson and his contemporaries -- The Theatre of the Absurd − themes -- The Theatre of the Absurd − composition and language -- Johnson and Beckett -- Angry Young Men and the 1960s -- Zenkasi - Madam Eva, Ave Madam -- Zenkasi and Kantor -- Creating across media -- Manifestos -- Poetics of space -- Madam Eva, Ave Madam and Kantor -- Realities -- Actors and encounters -- Revision of Dead Class -- From theatre towards liberature -- Liberature and Kantor -- Machinery -- Realms beyond -- Part III: Later Compositions and Intertextuality -- B.S. Johnson - One Sodding Thing After Another &amp -- Compressor -- One Sodding Thing After Another: the book as an experiment -- Johnson's intertextual net and Georg Büchner's Woyzeck -- Drawing on Büchner's themes: humanity and medical experiments -- Non-linear completion -- The drama that "doesn't work" as working space -- Mind, body and the book -- Compressor: the book as play and game -- Immersion, physicality and engagement Immersion, encounters and liberation -- Stage directions -- Impossibility and the unstageable -- The use of media: television theatre and screens -- Zenkasi - Finnegans Make1 -- Working on Joyce -- Circular composition -- An intermedial adaptation -- The ritual dimension -- Pervasive darkness and "the oceanic feeling" -- Violence and cultural universals -- Dreams -- The performative turn and community formation -- Working within the black box -- Space: a glance at a work from a bird's eye view -- Sound: the auditory landscape -- The black box within the space of the book -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
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ISBN:	9788323374855