Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History
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Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History

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Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History

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The automaton, known today as the robot, can be seen as a metaphor for the historical period in which it is explored. Chapters include examinations of Iconoclasm's fear that art might surpass nature, the Cartesian mind/body divide, automata as objects of courtly desire, the uncanny Olympia, and the revolutionary Robots in post-WWI drama.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2011
ISBN
9780230347540
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Performing Arts

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Iconoclasm and Automata
  11. 2 Descartes’s Mimetic Faculty
  12. 3 From Aristocrats to Autocrats: The Elite as Automata
  13. 4 Olympia’s Legacy
  14. 5 From Automata to Automation: The Birth of the Robot in R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)
  15. Epilogue
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index