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dc.contributor.advisor | Broadhurst, SM | - |
dc.contributor.author | Ovalioglu, Nilufer | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-02-02T12:03:41Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2011-02-02T12:03:41Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4712 | - |
dc.description | This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University, 09/12/2010. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation examines the notion of the female in performance, the latter term applying to occasions that are outside as well as within theatrical venues. I attempt to address the complex and mutually entailed interrelation between the 'normative' as it has, and continues to, govern female behaviour, and those manifestations deemed transgressive of these in some respect. I seek to postulate a conception of the performing female as a phenomenon which owes its force to the presence of both polarities. My preferred term for such a figure is the female bouffon, and after a preliminary definition of associated terms, I discuss the carnivalesque, socially licenced occasions of 'misrule' in pre-modern societies, where norms were temporarily suspended to permit women to 'make a spectacle of themselves'. Some contemporary parallels are furnished. I then address the larger and more discursive issues of the reflexive and self-applied norms of proper female conduct as offered and justified by industrial, scientifically authorized societies. From the above, I turn to the extraordinary creative ferment of the turn of the twentieth century, which witnessed the rebellious re-institution of older performance genres as well as the invention of new ones. I then discuss the associated theatrical theorizing that accompanied this era. After a detailed examination of the work of two contemporary practitioners, who, I consider, gather together past and present themes of bouffonerie in a compelling way, I give examples of my own performance practice, and some analysis of its reciprocal relation with an audience. I conclude with some speculative thoughts as to the future of the bouffonesque female performer. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Brunel University School of Arts PhD Theses | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | School of Arts | - |
dc.relation.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/4712/8/FulltextThesis.pdf | - |
dc.subject | Grotesque | en_US |
dc.subject | Performance | en_US |
dc.subject | Women's studies | en_US |
dc.subject | Theatre | en_US |
dc.subject | Contemporary art | en_US |
dc.title | The female bouffon | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | Theatre Dept of Arts and Humanities Theses |
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Performance 7 Flirt.mov | Performance | 145.64 MB | Video Quicktime | View/Open |
Performance 6 Serene.mov | Performance | 99.62 MB | Video Quicktime | View/Open |
Performance 5 Tricks of the Present Tense.mov | Performance | 190.73 MB | Video Quicktime | View/Open |
Performance 4 The Period Girl.mov | Performance | 46.85 MB | Video Quicktime | View/Open |
Performance 3 Pigeon Love.mov | Performance | 91.92 MB | Video Quicktime | View/Open |
Performance 2 Agent Provocateur.mov | Performance | 72.04 MB | Video Quicktime | View/Open |
Performance 1 Mirrorland.mov | Performance | 80.88 MB | Video Quicktime | View/Open |
FulltextThesis.pdf | Main article | 842.67 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
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