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Elastizitaet: The Poetics of Space, Movement and Character in Frank Wedekind's Theater by Jennifer Ham (Hardcover, 2012)

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Frequenting circuses in Paris and Berlin, Frank Wedekind, best known for Spring Awakening and the Lulu plays, learned that trapeze artists and tightrope walkers rely on different artificial reference points in space, in order to maintain their balance and orient themselves and to create their own sensorial and phenomenal worlds. This lesson in radical perspectivism and constructivism is a key to Wedekind's practice as a playwright, and it links the Munich dramatist's work to the thought of Schopenhauer, who first used the term Elastizitat in a philosophical sense; Darwin, who considered adaptability to be a primordial characteristic of life; Nietzsche, whose commentary on acrobats in Also sprach Zarathustra announces the Overman; and Freud, who used the term to describe the reactive, conservative nature of the instincts. Taking Elastizitat and the modern notion of adaptability as its point of departure, this book explores Wedekind's construction of space, movement and character in his plays, pantomimes, ballets and theoretical writings as a means of understanding both the structural consistencies and the ideological incongruities that permeate his fiction and nearly all layers of his works. This work also disengages Wedekind from traditional discussions of the dramatist as controversial social critic and reintroduces him into more productive discussions of his connection to nineteenth-century philosophical debates surrounding determinism, dualism and perception, on the one hand, and modern notions of risk, danger and precarity on the other.

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Peter Lang
ISBN-13
9780820430836
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138611381

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Book Title
Elastizitaet: the Poetics of Space, Movement and Character in Frank Wedekind's Theater
Author
Jennifer Ham
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2012
Number of Pages
214 Pages

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230mm
Item Width
155mm
Volume
29
Item Weight
440g

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Jennifer Ham
Series Title
Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
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United States

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