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Comparative Drama, 1969
The last decade has witnessed a remarkable revival of interest in Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885-1939), the Polish novelist and playwright whose dramas foreshadow the avant-garde phenomenon known as the Theater of the Absurd. Highly controversial during his lifetime, Witkiewicz had been forgotten for nearly a quarter of a century after his tragic ...
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The last decade has witnessed a remarkable revival of interest in Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885-1939), the Polish novelist and playwright whose dramas foreshadow the avant-garde phenomenon known as the Theater of the Absurd. Highly controversial during his lifetime, Witkiewicz had been forgotten for nearly a quarter of a century after his tragic ...
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Witkiewicz and the Theatre of Death
1994Such a critical reception for a first play frequently guarantees the playwright instant box-office success and automatic elevation into the canon. But the production of Tumor Brainiowicz at the Slowacki Theatre in Krakow in June 1921 was no breakthrough for Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy, 1885–1939), playwright, painter, critic, aesthetician ...
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Witkiewicz, Artaud, and the Theatre of Cruelty
Comparative Drama, 1969Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, called Witkacy ( 1895-1939) , was a Polish writer and philosopher of genius. Although he was relatively unknown and unacclaimed in his lifetime, today his work is exciting a wider interest because he is recognized as a precursor of the Theatre of Cruelty. His ideas and his techniques have much in common with the theories of
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The Pragmatics of Dialogue in the Theatre of St.I. Witkiewicz
Modern Drama, 1984St.I. Witkiewicz's endeavour stems from a desire to remake theatre entirely in order to give it a radically new structure, that of "Pure Form," following the incentive of concrete music and abstract painting. Interpreting dialogue in a pragmatic perspective raises the question of communication between a metenunciator, Witkiewicz, theoretician and ...
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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz: The Increase and Excess of Facial Expression
Palgrave Studies in Life Writing, 2023Teresa Bruś
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