Reductionism in drama and the theatre the case of Samuel Beckett /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hauck, Gerhard, 1939-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Potomac, Md., U.S.A. : Scripta Humanistica, 1992.
Series:Scripta Humanistica (Series) ; 102.
Digitalia eBook Collection: Scripta Humanistica.
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Online Access:Digitalia Hispánica
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction - Part 1: Principles and methods of reductionism
  • Reductionism in the natural sciences
  • Reductionism in the human sciences
  • Critique of reductionism - Part II: Towards an epistemology of drama and the theatre
  • The arts and the sciences
  • The theatre as practical science
  • The theatre and truth
  • Analysis in action on a stage of observation
  • Processing the product - Part III: Samuel Beckett: less. ever less
  • Chronology of Beckett's dramatic works
  • Celebration of diminution
  • Epistemology of indeterminacy
  • Reductions from conventional drama to Godot
  • Reductions from Godot to what where
  • Reductions from beginning to end
  • Draft manuscript reductions
  • Directorial reductions
  • Reductions to other art forms
  • Epistemology of Indeterminacy
  • Summary and conclusion.