Making an Entrance: Appearing on the Stage from Racine to Nietzsche

Juliane Vogel

Published by De Gruyter 2022

Making an Entrance

Appearing on the Stage from Racine to Nietzsche

Juliane Vogel
Translated by: Michael Thomas Taylor

Volume 14 in the series Paradigms

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110754490

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About this book

How does the entrance of a character on the tragic stage affect their visibility and presence? Beginning with the court culture of the seventeenth century and ending with Nietzsche’s Dionysian theater, this monograph explores specific modes of entering the stage and the conditions that make them successful—or cause them to fail. The study argues that tragic entrances ultimately always remain incomplete; that the step figures take into visibility invariably remains precarious. Through close readings of texts by Racine, Goethe, and Kleist, among others, it shows that entrances promise both triumph and tragic exposure; though they appear to be expressions of sovereignty, they are always simultaneously threatened by failure or annihilation. With this analysis, the book thus opens up possibilities for a new theory of dramatic form, one that begins not with the plot itself but with the stage entrance that structures how characters appear and thus determines how the plot advances. By reflecting on acts of entering, this book addresses not only scholars of literature, theater, media, and art but anyone concerned with what it means to appear and be present.

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Juliane Vogel, Germany, University of Konstanz, Konstanz.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Translator’s Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Chapter 1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 2 Tragedy in the Court Space of Appearance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 3 Wavering Shapes: Goethe’s Theater of Entrances Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Chapter 4 Triumph and Rending Movement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars in literature, media studies, art history, theater studies, visual arts, museum curators.
Pages
- Front matter: 32
- Main content: 293
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 20
- Coloured Illustrations: 8
Keywords: Tragedy; space of appearance; entrance; figure and ground

eBook

Published: October 3, 2022
ISBN: 9783110754490

Hardcover

Published: October 3, 2022
ISBN: 9783110754384