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dc.contributor.authorBroadhurst, S-
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-03T11:24:29Z-
dc.date.available2014-06-03T11:24:29Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.citationPerformance Research, 17(5), 34 - 40, 2012en_US
dc.identifier.issn1352-8165-
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13528165.2012.728438en
dc.identifier.urihttp://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/8547-
dc.descriptionThis is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Performance Research, 17(5), 34 - 40, 2012, copyright @ Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13528165.2012.728438.en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this paper I seek to examine and analyse the sense of duration induced by performances of Einstein on the Beach, and the entailed sense of time which its internal structure creates. I initially sketch out the stylistic context and artistic intentions of this work's creators, Glass and Wilson, and I briefly describe the process of its creation. Certain features of this process indicate how the work may be interpreted. Having cited the creators' thoughts on structure and temporality, I address directly aspects of Einstein's temporal effects, comparing it to works of similar lengths. I give the briefest synopsis of its staging and motifs. I then outline three kinds of devices which seem to inform our temporal sense of this work as spectators. In the final section I invoke two ideas which serve as analogies to help characterise this work's overall effect on us: Heidegger's notion of the ‘hermeneutic circle’ and, more speculatively, Nietzsche's ‘theory’ of Eternal Recurrence.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.subjectEinstein on the beachen_US
dc.subjectStructureen_US
dc.subjectTemporalityen_US
dc.subjectHermeneutic circleen_US
dc.subjectEternal recurrenceen_US
dc.subjectOperaen_US
dc.titleEinstein on the beach: A study in temporalityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2012.728438-
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