TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vogel,Juliane
AU  - Taylor,Michael Thomas
TI  - Making an Entrance: Appearing on the Stage from Racine to Nietzsche 
T2  - Paradigms : Literature and the Human Sciences ,
SN  - 9783110754384
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Tragedy
KW  - entrance
KW  - figure and ground
KW  - space of appearance
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Translator’s Introduction --; Chapter 1 Introduction --; Chapter 2 Tragedy in the Court Space of Appearance --; Chapter 3 Wavering Shapes: Goethe’s Theater of Entrances --; Chapter 4 Triumph and Rending Movement --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - How does the entrance of a character on the tragic stage affect their visibility and presence? Beginning with the court culture of the seventeenth century and ending with Nietzsche’s Dionysian theater, this monograph explores specific modes of entering the stage and the conditions that make them successful—or cause them to fail. The study argues that tragic entrances ultimately always remain incomplete; that the step figures take into visibility invariably remains precarious. Through close readings of texts by Racine, Goethe, and Kleist, among others, it shows that entrances promise both triumph and tragic exposure; though they appear to be expressions of sovereignty, they are always simultaneously threatened by failure or annihilation. With this analysis, the book thus opens up possibilities for a new theory of dramatic form, one that begins not with the plot itself but with the stage entrance that structures how characters appear and thus determines how the plot advances. By reflecting on acts of entering, this book addresses not only scholars of literature, theater, media, and art but anyone concerned with what it means to appear and be present
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110754490
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110754490
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110754490/original
ER  -