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" Murder by accident : "
Jody Enders.
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BL
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994135
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b748505
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Enders, Jody,1955-
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Murder by accident : : medieval theater, modern media, critical intentions /\ Jody Enders.
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (xxiii, 285 pages)
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0226207854
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: 1282239562
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: 6612239565
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: 9780226207858
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: 9781282239562
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: 9786612239564
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0226207838
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9780226207834
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-273) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: doing theater justice -- Back to the medieval future -- Behind the seen: all hell breaks loose -- The final run-through -- Fear of imminence and virtual ethics: staging rape in the Middle Ages -- Killing himself by accident: of broken frames, mimetic blindness, and a dance of death -- Entr'acte: this fallacy which is not one -- The theater and its trouble -- The theatrical contract -- In flagrante theatro -- Theater nullification -- Talk-back: black box and idiot box -- Appendix: original documents in French and Latin.
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Over fifty years ago, it became unfashionable-even forbidden-for students of literature to talk about an author's intentions for a given work. In Murder by Accident, Jody Enders boldly resurrects the long-disgraced concept of intentionality, especially as it relates to the theater. Drawing on four fascinating medieval events in which a theatrical performance precipitated deadly consequences, Enders contends that the marginalization of intention in critical discourse is a mirror for the marginalization-and misunderstanding-of theater. Murder by Accident revisits the legal, moral, ethical, and a.
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Drama, Medieval-- History and criticism.
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Intention in literature.
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Theater-- History-- Medieval, 500-1500.
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Violence in the theater.
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Autorintention-- Drama.
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Drama
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Drama-- Autorintention.
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Drama-- Geschichte Mittelalter.
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Drama, Medieval.
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Gewalt
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Intention in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- General.
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Mord
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Mord
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Mord.
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Theater
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Theater-- Medieval.
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Theater.
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TRAVEL-- Special Interest-- Literary.
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Violence in the theater.
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Frankreich.
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| Dewey Classification
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809.2/9355
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PN2152.E544 2009eb
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