The Theatre of Death - the Uncanny in Mimesis: Tadeusz Kantor, Aby Warburg, and an Iconology of the Actor
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 2302
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1057/978-1-137-47872-6
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137478719
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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T - Theatre and Performance
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Researched over eight years, this book identifies a field of practice located in relations between cultural anthropology and modernist art theatre. This interplay of mimesis and the uncanny is conceptualised as a “theatre of death”, in which each term becomes a question of and for the other. That the work is inherently transdisciplinary is indicated by the book’s subtitle, invoking both Kantor and Warburg, as also its appearance in Palgrave’s “Performance Philosophy” series. Through a wide range of sources (including in French and German), the book explores questions that are simultaneously anthropological, philosophical, aesthetic, and historical.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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