In the first collection of its kind, Timothy Murray brings together writing by leading French thinkers on the political effects of theatricality on theater, film, literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. In addition to recently translated work by Cixous and Deleuze, the collection features English translations of essays by Althusser, Derrida, Durand, Fanon, Feral, Foucault, Girard, Green, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacoue-Labarthe, Lyotard, and Marin."" "Mimesis, Masochism, and Mime" provides a welcome theoretical contribution to recent theories of performance and to the development of French cultural studies. Its emphasis on the politics of theatricality lends unprecedented focus to French theorizations of the body, gender, sight, screen, voice, territoriality, otherness, and diversity. In so doing, the volume provides an intellectual context and theoretical blueprint for future work in the cultural study of mimesis, masochism, and mime. The collection highlights the importance of theatricality to the theory and practice of aesthetics as well as to French debates over patriarchy, absolutism, and metaphysics. In turn, wide-ranging analyses provide a range of approaches to the politics of identity, feminism, marginality, and postcoloniality. Timothy Murray's introduction makes clear the theoretical context of the volume, and situates the book in relation to recent Anglo-American debates over realism, multiculturalism, and identity politics. The contributors are especially helpful in linking varying political accounts of ideology, philosophy, and psychoanalysis to historical and contemporary work in performance, film, and video. Astute commentaries on Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Artaud are combined with fascinating analyses of more recent mixed-media performance, from the European stage (Duras, Theatre du Soleil, Bene, and Strehler), to the site of North American performance (Snow, Mabou Mines, Wilson, and Rainer)."Mimesis, Masochism, and Mime" provides a stunning account of the political importance of theatricality to contemporary French thought and will be welcomed by readers in French studies, theory, theater, cultural studies, film, women's studies, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. "The essays . . .are judiciously chosen, accurately justified, wide in range within the dispensation of post-structuralist thought--that is, they touch on everything from the question of origins to the libidinal economy of performance to post- Brechtian staging to the ineliminable shadow play of tragedy through its ideological demystification by schizoanalysis to feminism in the theater." --Herbert Blau, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Timothy Murray is Professor of English at Cornell University and former Editor of "Theatre Journal." He is the author of "Theatrical Legitimation: Allegories of Genius in Seventeenth-Century England and France" and "Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera, and Canvas."
这本书的排版和引文格式相当专业,看得出出版方在学术规范上的投入。然而,真正让我驻足的,是其对“无声表演”(Mime)的回归性分析。在充斥着语言和符号的现代社会,作者对 Mime 的聚焦,宛如在喧嚣中设置了一个绝对的静默区域,邀请我们重新思考身体作为媒介的原始力量。我特别关注作者如何处理 Mime 艺术家在表达“痛苦”或“欲望”时,那种必须通过极度精确的身体控制来“暗示”而非“直白陈述”的张力。这种张力,恰好与 masochism 中“渴望被理解的痛苦”和“无法清晰表达的隐秘冲动”之间存在着一种奇特的对应关系。这本书没有满足于将 Mime 视为一种技巧,而是将其提升到了一种存在论的高度,即身体如何在一个被观看和被评判的结构中,进行着自我构建和自我毁灭的循环。对于任何对非语言沟通和身体政治学感兴趣的读者来说,这部分内容无疑是全书的亮点,它提供了一种全新的、极具穿透力的观察视角。
评分这本《Mimesis, Masochism and Mime》的书名本身就充满了引人入胜的张力,让我对它所探讨的内容产生了极大的好奇心。从书名中,我立刻联想到了艺术模仿(Mimesis)、痛苦的自我沉溺(Masochism)以及舞台上无声的表演(Mime)这三个看似关联不大,却又在某种深层结构上可能产生奇妙化学反应的概念。我期待作者能够精妙地编织出一个理论框架,将这三者连接起来。例如,艺术的模仿过程本身是否就是一种对“真实”的施虐与受虐?表演者在舞台上对角色的“复制”过程中,是否也体验着一种精神上的被支配或自我折磨?如果作者能深入挖掘表演者在 mimesis 过程中的心理状态,以及这种心理状态如何与 masochism 的内核产生共鸣,那么这本书的价值将无可估量。我尤其希望看到作者如何处理“无声”的 Mime 艺术,这种拒绝语言的表达形式,如何在没有直接叙事的情况下,去呈现复杂的情感纠葛,特别是那种需要通过身体语言和极度克制才能表达的、隐秘的痛苦与快感。这本书的厚度暗示着其内容的深度与广度,我猜想它必定会涉及从古典美学到现代戏剧理论,甚至可能触及精神分析的领域,为我们理解艺术的本质提供一种既痛苦又迷人的视角。
评分坦白地说,初读此书时,我对其宏大的主题有些不知所措,感觉它像是一座由各种复杂的理论模块搭建而成的迷宫。然而,随着阅读的深入,我开始欣赏作者在构建这一理论迷宫时的精妙布局。不同于一般的理论著作,这本书似乎更注重展示概念之间的“渗透”而非“划分”。它探讨的不是 Mimesis *是否*包含 Masochism,而是 Mimesis *如何*在结构上就内嵌了 Masochism 的某种驱动机制。我推测,作者可能巧妙地利用了 Mime 作为一种中介形式,因为它本身就是对某种外部现实的“服从”和“重构”,这种服从与自我牺牲的边界模糊地带,恰恰是 Masochism 最感兴趣的疆域。这本书的论证逻辑非常具有穿透力,它像一把手术刀,切开了艺术创作与心理需求的表层联系,直抵其最深处的、关乎自我瓦解与重生的核心动力。它不会让你读得轻松愉快,但它会让你在合上书页之后,对你过去所热爱的艺术形式产生一种全新的、带着敬畏和警惕的理解。
评分读完这本大部头后,我的第一印象是其学术的严谨性令人肃然起敬,但同时,它所构建的论证链条也展现出一种近乎病态的迷人。作者似乎在不遗余力地拆解我们习以为常的“模仿”概念,不再将其视为简单的复制或再现,而是将其置于一个充满权力运作和欲望驱动的场域中进行审视。特别是书中对“受虐”情结在审美接受过程中的渗透分析,让我耳目一新。我们通常将审美体验视为一种纯粹的愉悦或理解,但作者似乎在暗示,真正的审美高峰往往伴随着一种难以言说的自我消解或对既有认知的抵抗,这与受虐的心理机制有着异曲同工之妙。书中对具体戏剧或舞蹈案例的引用,虽然专业性极强,但却有效地支撑了其理论的重量,使得那些抽象的概念不再是空中楼阁。唯一让我感到有些吃力的部分,是作者对特定哲学流派概念的挪用,有时显得过于晦涩,需要读者具备相当的背景知识才能完全跟上其思辨的速度。尽管如此,这本书无疑是对表演艺术理论的一次大胆而深刻的介入,它迫使你重新审视那些你以为早已看穿的舞台表象。
评分翻开这本书,我立刻被其强烈的论证风格所吸引。它不是那种温和的学术探讨,而更像是一场精心编排的理论搏击。作者似乎完全不满足于停留在现象的描述层面,而是执着于挖掘隐藏在艺术实践深处的“原罪”与驱动力。那种将“masochism”作为一种核心的、近乎形而上学的力量植入对“mimesis”的理解中,带来的冲击是巨大的。我感觉作者正在试图证明,艺术的永恒魅力恰恰源于它对观看者和表演者施加的一种必要的“暴力”——一种对心智的重塑和对边界的试探。书中对“拟态”与“自我遗忘”之间关系的探讨尤其精妙,它提示我们,当我们完全沉浸于模仿之中时,我们究竟是成为了被模仿的对象,还是在这种迷失中找到了一个更真实的自我?这种悖论的张力贯穿始终,使得阅读过程充满了智力上的兴奋感和某种潜在的焦虑。这本书无疑会成为文化研究领域中一个无法绕开的参照点,因为它拒绝提供舒适的答案,而是热衷于提出更具挑战性的问题。
评分The middle is not a means but, on the contrary, an excess. Things sprout from the middle. That was Virginia Woolf’s idea. (Deleuze on Woolf)
评分The middle is not a means but, on the contrary, an excess. Things sprout from the middle. That was Virginia Woolf’s idea. (Deleuze on Woolf)
评分The middle is not a means but, on the contrary, an excess. Things sprout from the middle. That was Virginia Woolf’s idea. (Deleuze on Woolf)
评分The middle is not a means but, on the contrary, an excess. Things sprout from the middle. That was Virginia Woolf’s idea. (Deleuze on Woolf)
评分The middle is not a means but, on the contrary, an excess. Things sprout from the middle. That was Virginia Woolf’s idea. (Deleuze on Woolf)
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