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Theatrical Consciousness: The Actor's Mind in Russian Modernism

Theatrical Consciousness: The Actor's Mind in Russian Modernism

Lin, Alisa Ballard

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Literary CriticismGeneral PsychologyTheater History

ISBN10: 0810148439
ISBN13: 9780810148437
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: Apr 15 2025
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.80 Depth: 6.00
Language: English

Investigating late imperial Russian and early Soviet modernism's reinvention of the actor

In this wide-ranging study, Alisa Ballard Lin argues that Russian theatrical theory and practice contributed to a broad pre- and postrevolutionary discourse about the mind, profoundly reshaping concepts of consciousness, perception, identity, and the constitution of the subject. Theatrical Consciousness: The Actor's Mind in Russian Modernism examines efforts in Russian theater--from around the turn of the century through the mid-1930s--to stimulate, train, imagine, and ultimately understand the actor's, as well as the spectator's, mind. Discussing key figures of the period, including Nikolai Evreinov, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, and Alexander Tairov, Lin identifies an underappreciated dimension of humanism within Russian modernism: a humanism that resisted the pressures of an increasingly technologized, industrialized, and politicized modernity that challenged the place of the human within it.

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