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To see through the eyes of essayist and dramaturge Jan Kott is to gain in knowledge not just of the theater but also of human culture. Since his Shakespeare Our Contemporary appeared in English in 1964, Kott's work has altered--and strengthened--the way critics and the public approach the theater as a whole. The Memory of the Body highlights a number of dramatic personalities and personages: authors and directors Witkiewicz, Brecht, Kantor, Grotoswki, Ingmar Bergman, Wedekind; Tilly Newes on the stage in turn-of-the-century Vienna; the all-too-mortal, two-thirds divine Gilgamesh; and a shaman in rural Korea. In a style flecked with passion, poignancy, and wit, Kott moves beyond a mere discussion of theater to speak of eroticism, painting, love, and death.
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"Kott is a truly outstanding drama critic of a type which goes back to Dr. Johnson, Lessing, Coleridge, Hazlitt, or Edmund Wilson. . . . He has the gift of seeing connections between literature, philosophy, anthropology, political theory, and psychology which are only open to so widely read and so cultured a mind as his."
--Martin Esslin
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--Martin Esslin
Jan Kott, formerly professor of literature at the University of Warsaw, left Poland for the United States in 1966. He has taught at Yale, the University of California at Berkeley, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, as well as overseas in Japan, at the Catholic University at Louvain in Belgium, and at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1964 he received the Herder Award in Vienna, and in 1984 the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. His other books include The Theater of Essence, The Bottom Translation, The Eating of the Gods, and Four Decades of Polish Essays (editor), all published by Northwestern University Press.
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- PublisherNorthwestern University Press
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0810110199
- ISBN 13 9780810110199
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages222
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The memory of the body : essays on theater and death / Jan Kott ; [with translations by Jadwiga Kosicka, Lillian Vallee, and others]
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Book Description First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; ix, 153 p : ill ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes index. Translated from the Polish. Contents; Part I. The Dramaturge -- A Lesson in Directing -- Simulators -- The Voice of Cassandra: On Stempowski -- Lec and His Aphorisms -- On Bombrowicz and Schulz -- Kantor's Kaddish -- Kantor, Memory, Mémoire (1915-90) -- Mro ek's_Emigrés -- Grotowski, or The Limit -- Part II. A Short Treatise on Eroticism Aloe -- A Short Treatise on Dying -- The Sexual Triangle -- In the Kitchen of a Shamaness -- The Heart Attack -- The Memory of the Body -- Part III. Gilgamesh or Mortality. Subjects; Kott, Jan 1914-2001. Theater Poland History. Theatrical producers and directors History. Dramatists. Human body (Philosophy). 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 404312
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The memory of the body : essays on theater and death / Jan Kott ; [with translations by Jadwiga Kosicka, Lillian Vallee, and others]
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Book Description First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; ix, 153 p : ill ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes index. Translated from the Polish. Contents; Part I. The Dramaturge -- A Lesson in Directing -- Simulators -- The Voice of Cassandra: On Stempowski -- Lec and His Aphorisms -- On Bombrowicz and Schulz -- Kantor's Kaddish -- Kantor, Memory, Mémoire (1915-90) -- Mro ek's_Emigrés -- Grotowski, or The Limit -- Part II. A Short Treatise on Eroticism Aloe -- A Short Treatise on Dying -- The Sexual Triangle -- In the Kitchen of a Shamaness -- The Heart Attack -- The Memory of the Body -- Part III. Gilgamesh or Mortality. Subjects; Kott, Jan 1914-2001. Theater Poland History. Theatrical producers and directors History. Dramatists. Human body (Philosophy). 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 404312
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