Richard Gilman (1923–2006)
Autor de Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet
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- Gilman, Richard Martin
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- GILMAN, Richard Martin
GILMAN, Richard - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1923-04-30
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2006-10-28
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
- Educación
- University of Wisconsin (1947)
- Ocupaciones
- theater critic
professor - Relaciones
- Gilman, Esther (wife|divorced)
Gilman, Nicholas (son) - Organizaciones
- Yale University (School of Drama)
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AndreasJ | otra reseña | Dec 29, 2015 |
AndreasJ | otra reseña | Dec 29, 2015 | 
"Words take on life...", Gilman begins, as he explores, without attempting to lock in a definition, "Decadence" and its biography. Begins and ends with the observation that the word recommends itself "...to the shallow, the thoughtless and imitative, the academically frozen: monkey-minds." {180}.
Cites Baudelaire's anathema, that it is a word which shelters our "lack of curiosity regarding the Law". {29, 179} Perhaps its use is a complacency, a screen of indifference. "The Law is what is, what truly exists and happens, what cannot be reduced to our opinions, our 'slants'."
It's use is revelatory of "some of the ways we cheat ourselves of truth through language." {180} By stuffing ourselves with emptiness.… (más)
Cites Baudelaire's anathema, that it is a word which shelters our "lack of curiosity regarding the Law". {29, 179} Perhaps its use is a complacency, a screen of indifference. "The Law is what is, what truly exists and happens, what cannot be reduced to our opinions, our 'slants'."
It's use is revelatory of "some of the ways we cheat ourselves of truth through language." {180} By stuffing ourselves with emptiness.… (más)
This was a very readable and applicable analysis of major playwrights.
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(Yes, that's too many halves. I blame the degeneracy of modern math tuition.)