Encounters in theatre and liberature B.S. Johnson and Zenkasi - Biela, Katarzyna ca. 20./21. Jh (Jagiellonian University Press, 2023)
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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