Format:
1 online resource (578 pages)
ISBN:
9783653047974
Series Statement:
Interdisciplinary Studies in Performance Ser. v.20
Content:
The book presents a constructivist theory of relations between artistic forms and religious phenomena ("recapitulatory aesthetics"). The main theoretical concepts and knowledge resources are religion as a cultural system, social history, and aesthetics of main drama genres developed in the Middle Ages.
Content:
Cover -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Part I. Literature and History -- 1. A Philological Exercise -- 2. Language and History: The Cognitive Turn -- 3. Pious Spectacle -- 4. The Sacred -- 5. Forms of Devotion -- Part II. Changes in the Ontology of the Sacred -- 6. The Ontology of the Sacred -- 7. The Sources of the Spiritualization Process -- 8. The Material Symbol and the Linguistic Sign -- 9. The Stages of Spiritualization -- 10. The Transcendentalization of the Sacred as a Civilizational Transformation -- Part III. The Profane: The Human Estate -- 11. Lower Tiers of Sacrality -- 12. The New Place for People in Nature -- 13. From the Universalism of Obedience to the Pluralism of Predictability -- 14. Confraternities as Media in the Civilizing Process 426 -- Part IV. The Aesthetics of Recapitulation: To Inscribe into the Living Hearts -- 15. Theatrica -- 16. Spectator, Participant, Co-Author -- 17. The Incarnational Aesthetics of the Theatrical Performance -- 18. The Aesthetics of Articulation and Factuality -- 19. Knowledge of the Miracle -- 20. Recapitulation and Creativity -- Part V. Spirituality and Subjectivity in Drama -- 21. The Forms of Devotion and Drama -- 22. The Mystery Play -- 23. The Miracle Play -- 24. The Morality Play -- 25. The Recapitulatory Drama -- 26. The Farce -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783631655016
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783631655016
Language:
English
Author information:
Dąbrówka, Andrzej 1949-
