{"id":3154,"date":"2018-11-15T12:15:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T12:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2020-01-14T16:24:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T16:24:57","slug":"dr-amanda-di-ponio-publishes-book-exploring-world-of-theatre-and-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/2018\/11\/15\/dr-amanda-di-ponio-publishes-book-exploring-world-of-theatre-and-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Amanda Di Ponio Publishes Book Exploring World of Theatre and Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Di Ponio (Assistant Professor, Department of English &amp; Cultural Studies) on the recent publication of her book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/us\/book\/9783319922485\"><em>The Early Modern Theatre of Cruelty and Its Doubles: Artaud and Influence <\/em>(Routledge, 2018).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This book explores the influential thought of Antonin Artaud, and particularly his concept of the Theatre of Cruelty published in<em> The Theatre and Its Double<\/em>\u00a0in 1938, examining the origins of Artaud\u2019s ideas and the impact of these ideas on how we understand theatre today.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Di Ponio plays on the notion of \u2018doubling\u2019 in her approach, discussing the traditional sense of the double\u2014as comparative action, moving between two different contexts and time frames\u2014while simultaneously reflecting critically on accepted understandings of theatrical history and practice. In doing so, she develops a new discourse of anti-establishment and counter-tradition based on an Artaudian reading of the synthesis between theatre and culture. The book also makes an original contribution by discussing the influence of Shakespeare and his contemporaries on Artaud, and the reciprocal influence of Artaud on contemporary interpretations of early modern drama.<\/p>\n<p>At the recent Huron Ideas event, a campus celebration of faculty publications, Dr. Di Ponio credited her classroom experiences\u2014both as a student and, since 2014, as a professor at Huron\u2014with fostering the ideas behind the book. She explained, \u201cwhile my role as a professor is to help students\u2019 ideas take shape, I am grateful to them for letting me test some of my ideas in the classroom, thus allowing my students and me to grow alongside those ideas.\u201d Dr. Di Ponio offered as key advice to students: \u201cspeak to your peers, discuss your thoughts, and share your discoveries. Through this, ideas can and will grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Di Ponio (Assistant Professor, Department of English &amp; Cultural Studies) on the recent publication of her book The Early Modern Theatre of Cruelty and Its Doubles: Artaud and Influence (Routledge, 2018). This book explores the influential thought of Antonin Artaud, and particularly his concept of the Theatre of Cruelty published in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-quote","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"post_format-post-format-quote","9":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/curl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}