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Theatricality Beyond Disciplines

Theatricality Beyond Disciplines

Erfani, Amin

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PhilosophyLiterary CriticismPerformance Art

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ISBN10: 1835951732
ISBN13: 9781835951736
Publisher: Intellect (UK)
Published: Nov 21 2025
Pages: 210
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.79 Depth: 9.58
Language: English
A radical rethinking of theatricality as a disruptive force that unsettles knowledge and redefines the boundaries between theory and performance.

In Theatricality Beyond Disciplines, Amin Erfani expands the concept of theatricality beyond the stage, tracing its destabilizing power through literature, psychoanalysis, media, and philosophy. Drawing on Artaud's vision of theater as an unpredictable, contagious force--what he called the return of the repressed--the book rejects the Aristotelian idea of theater as a space of healing. Instead, it frames it as an unsettling intervention into systems of power and meaning.

Through close readings of Artaud, Genet, Novarina, Koltès, and theorists like Freud, Barthes, and Derrida, Erfani reveals how theatricality operates primarily in the aural rather than the visual mode, inciting paranoia, psychic contamination, and ruptures in language. A provocative challenge to disciplinary boundaries, this book suits any student or scholar interested in examining the relationship between theater and theoretical discourse, posing theatricality as a site of radical otherness and transformation.

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