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" Automata and mimesis on the stage of theatre history / "
Kara Reilly
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BL
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711048
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b533237
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| Main Entry
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Reilly, Kara
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Automata and mimesis on the stage of theatre history /\ Kara Reilly
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| Publication Statement
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2011
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xi, 220 p. ;; 23 cm
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0230232027 (hardback)
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: 9780230232020 (hardback)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Iconoclasm and automata -- Descartes' mimetic faculty -- From artistocrats to autocrats: the elite as automata -- Olympia's Legacy -- From automata to automation: the birth of the robot in R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) -- Epilogue
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Drama-- History and criticism
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Mimesis in literature
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Motion in literature
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Robots in literature
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Theater-- History
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| Dewey Classification
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809.2/9356
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PN1650.R63R36 2011
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