Peter Sellars and the persistence of modernity
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Mark Patrick Bates, 'Peter Sellars and the persistence of modernity', [thesis], Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2001, pp 294Download Item:
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Abstract:
If language is subjective, if the sign is unstable, if meaning is endlessly
deferred, how is it possible to assume a position of moral critique? Confronted by
persistent social crisis, the American theatre and opera director Peter Sellars struggles
to establish an ethical aesthetics after the neutralisation of the adversarial forms of
modernism and the avant-garde His work and career provide an example of the
cultural confusion faced by socially-conscious artists in postmodemity. This thesis
analyses Sellars’s search, asking if his work represents an imaginative overcoming of
postmodern impasses, or a nostalgic regression to the certainties of modernism.
Author: Bates, Mark Patrick
Advisor:
Kennedy, DennisQualification name:
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)Publisher:
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