Inventing the Spectator
Subjectivity and the Theatrical Experience in Early Modern France
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 May 2014
- ISBN 9780198701613
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages294 pages
- Size 223x154x25 mm
- Weight 496 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Inventing the Spectator reconstructs the theatre spectator's experience as it was understood in France between the Renaissance and the Revolution, raising numerous questions that strike at the very heart of human psychology, cognition, and experience.
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During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, France became famous -- notorious even -- across Europe for its ambitious attempts to codify and theorise a system of universally valid dramatic 'rules'. So fundamental and formative was this 'classical' conception of drama that it still underpins our modern conception of theatre today. Yet rather than rehearsing familiar arguments about plays, Inventing the Spectator reads early modern France's dramatic theory against the grain, tracing instead the profile and characteristics of the spectator that these arguments imply: the living, breathing individual in whose mind, senses, and experience the theatre comes to life. In so doing, Joseph Harris raises numerous questions -- of imagination and illusion, reason and emotion, vision and aurality, to name but a few -- that strike at the very heart of human psychology, cognition, and experience. Bridging the gap between literary and theatre studies, history of psychology, and intellectual history, Inventing the Spectator thus reconstructs the theatre spectator's experience as it was understood and theorised within French dramatic theory between the Renaissance and the Revolution. It explores early modern spectatorship through three main themes (illusion and the senses; pleasure and narrative; interest and identification) and five key dramatic theoreticians (d'Aubignac, Corneille, Dubos, Rousseau, and Diderot). As it demonstrates, the period's dramatic rules are at heart rules of psychology, cognition, and affect that emerged out of a complex dialogue with human subjectivity in all its richness.
this is a subtle, well-argued and scholarly account of early modern France's response to a highly complex set of questions that are still resonant today.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Subjectivity and the senses: from deceit to enthralment
D'Aubignac: the rationalist spectator
Corneille: the indulgent spectator
Narrative pleasures: from intellect to emotion
Dubos: the contemplative spectator
Between interest and identification
Rousseau: the alienated spectator
Beyond domesticity: Diderot and the drame
Epilogue: the decline of the spectator
