Memory in play: from Aeschylus to Sam Shepard

Memory in play: from Aeschylus to Sam Shepard

Favorini, Attilio

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This innovative study examines the role of memory in the history of theatre and drama. Favorini analyzes issues of memory in self-construction, collective memory, the clash of memory and history and even explores what the work of cognitive scientists can teach us about brain function and our response to drama. INDICE: Drama and the History of Memory - Drama and the Memory of History - Memory Plays Before the 'Memory Play' - The 'Memory Play' and After: Narrative Paradigms - Drama of Mnemic Signs - Confrontation or Convergence: Staging the Encounter of History and Memory

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-60464-3
  • Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 336
  • Fecha Publicación: 12/01/2009
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Inglés