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Chapter 4 Superstition and an Iconology

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This chapter, considers two further key terms and their relation: superstition and iconology. The chapter offers an extended discussion of Castellucci’s production On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God; and also addresses the example of Bunraku with Barthes and Latour. Again, this chapter explores the question of anachronism in art practice, of what is symptomatic (not chronological) in and for an understanding of cultural memory when considering the life of the dead, within theatre at least.

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Twitchin, M. (2016). Chapter 4 Superstition and an Iconology. In: The Theatre of Death – The Uncanny in Mimesis. Performance Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47872-6_5

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