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The automaton, known today as the robot, can be seen as a metaphor for the historical period in which it is explored. Chapters include examinations of Iconoclasm's fear that art might surpass nature, the Cartesian mind/body divide, automata as objects of courtly desire, the uncanny Olympia, and the revolutionary Robots in post-WWI drama.
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KARA REILLY is a Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is a theatre historian, theorist and dramaturg. Her work has appeared in New Theatre Quarterly, American Drama, Theatre Journal and Contemporary Theatre Review. This is her first book.
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Book Title: Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History
Authors: Kara Reilly
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230347540
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Theatre & Performance Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-23202-0Published: 26 August 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31243-6Published: 01 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-34754-0Published: 26 August 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 220
Topics: Performing Arts, Theatre History, Theatre and Performance Studies