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22 lis 2013 · A theatre whose sequenced actions have no narrative (so the story goes) mirrors a social world where the most conflictual situations no longer appear as drama but merely as spectacle: a society where audiences look on without any feeling or connection.
Together, they cooperate to define situations with an interpretative frame, drawing upon shared repertoires of tacit knowledge. Focusing on Goffman’s dramaturgy as a branch of symbolic interactionism, the chapter begins with the metaphor of the theatre as a representation of social life.
Dramaturgical theory is an interdisciplinary mode of analysis, emerging in the late 1950s and ‘60s. Erving Goffman can be cited as its leading exponent. See, in particular, Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (London: Penguin, 1959);
23 paź 2017 · Goffman would argue that the spontaneity that goes with freedom has unpredictable risks, if the spontaneous actions disrupt the ongoing drama, what he repeatedly calls the definition of the situation.
1 paź 2015 · This book demonstrates that this account of the tragic, which has been hegemonic from the early nineteenth century to the present despite recent twists and turns of critical fashion, obscured an earlier poetics of tragedy that evolved from 1515 to 1795.
22 paź 2018 · Dramaturgy refers to a perspective and an analytic tool that enhances awareness of how people collaborate to foster impressions, derive shared understandings, and create meaning in their everyday lives.
30 maj 1996 · This challenging volume of thirty new essays has an exceptional range - from Aeschylus to Sean O'Casey, from Aristotle to Rene Girard - but also a consistent focus on the ultimate question: how best to define or understand Greek tragedy in particular and tragedy in general.
