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- Outlines the evolution of our political nature and explores many of the rituals, plays, films, and other performances
- Ranges from an initiation ritual in the Mbendjela tribe in the Congo to a 1947 drama by Bertolt Brecht
- Examines the gradual disintegration of social cohesion underlying the rise of polarized politics in the USA after 1965
Part of the book series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance (CSLP)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Orientations
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Front Matter
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Political Universals in History and Performance
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Front Matter
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Neoliberal Capitalism and Political Disintegration in the US
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Theatre Arts, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
Bruce McConachie
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Drama, Politics, and Evolution
Book Subtitle: Cliodynamics in Play
Authors: Bruce McConachie
Series Title: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81377-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81376-5Published: 26 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81379-6Published: 27 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-81377-2Published: 25 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2945-7297
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7300
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 295
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Drama, Aesthetics, Political History, Literary Theory, Philosophy of Mind, Evolutionary Biology