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Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History

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  • © 2011

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  1. Kara Reilly
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Kara Reilly
    Pages 1-15

  3. Iconoclasm and Automata

    • Kara Reilly
    Pages 16-47

  4. Descartes’s Mimetic Faculty

    • Kara Reilly
    Pages 48-72

  5. From Aristocrats to Autocrats: The Elite as Automata

    • Kara Reilly
    Pages 73-110

  6. Olympia’s Legacy

    • Kara Reilly
    Pages 111-147

  7. From Automata to Automation: The Birth of the Robot in R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)

    • Kara Reilly
    Pages 148-176

  8. Epilogue

    • Kara Reilly
    Pages 177-181

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 182-220
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The automaton, known today as the robot, can be seen as a metaphor for the historical period in which it is explored. Chapters include examinations of Iconoclasm's fear that art might surpass nature, the Cartesian mind/body divide, automata as objects of courtly desire, the uncanny Olympia, and the revolutionary Robots in post-WWI drama.

About the author

KARA REILLY is a Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is a theatre historian, theorist and dramaturg. Her work has appeared in New Theatre Quarterly, American Drama, Theatre Journal and Contemporary Theatre Review. This is her first book.

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