Bert O States
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 389759 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bert O States |
| NOMBRES | Bert |
| APELLIDO | O States |
| FIRMA | STATES B O |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1962 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Great Reckonings in Little Rooms
The Actor's Presence
One way of approaching the phenomenology of the actor is to consider him as a kind of storyteller whose speciality is that he is the story he is telling. Presumably, the transitional between the true storyteller and the actor would be the rhapsode who tells his story (or rather someone else's) directly to the audience, simulating the more exciting parts of it in the manner of the First Player in Hamlet, who gets so carried away by the plight of H…
Dreams, art and virtual worldmaking
This paper examines the possible role of dreams and other forms of virtual worldmaking (chiefly fictions) in forming and maintaining our adaptive systems. I posit no exclusive function for the dream. Rather, I treat it a an extension of fiction's preoccupation with our daily concerns, desires and fears. I suggest that narratives help us to enlarge and revise our perceptual and response systems, not by offering us moral or ethical propositions to …
Definitions of dream
A single definition for dreaming is most likely impossible given the wide spectrum of fields engaged in the study of dreaming, and the diversity in currently applied definitions. Many studies do not specify a definition, yet results are likely to be comparable only when comparable definitions of the topic are used. The alternative is to develop a classification system organizing the multiplicity of definitions for dream. A dream should not be exc…
Dreams
SubStance - Issue 94/95 (Volume 30, Number 1&2), 2001
Dream bizarreness and inner thought
The paper offers a critique of bizarreness studies that compare dreams to real world probability ratios and directed thought processes as a basis for determining the degree of bizarreness in dreams. It examines two cases from the literature and suggests that dreams are better compared to non-directed, or imaginative waking thought processes, specifically Inner Thought and Speech (or “speech for oneself,” in Lev Vygotsky's definition), in which as…
Dreaming as delirium
My response to Allan Hobson makes several points. Primarily, I argue that the coherence of any dream cannot be determined by the recall of the dream events alone. Rather, coherence must surely reside in the dreamer's felt involvement in those dream events, and this is virtually impossible to determine from a dream report. Second, in response to Hobson's claim that a purely associative thought process neglects the role of dissociation, I argue tha…
Dreaming as psychosis
Performance as Metaphor
Performance as Metaphor Bert O. States (bio) Performance is clearly one of those terms that Raymond Williams calls "keywords," or words (e.g., realism, naturalism, mimesis, structure) whose meanings are "inextricably bound up with the problems [they are] being used to discuss." 1 Find a word that is suddenly emerging from normal semantic practice (a word you are hearing, say, a dozen times a week), and you can bet that it is a proto-keyword sprea…
Dreaming "accidentally" of Harold Pinter
Authorship in dreams and fictions
Hamlet and the Concept of Character
The meaning of dreams
Playing in Lyric Time
Of Things, Selves, and Singers
Great Reckonings in Little Rooms
It has become impossible to imagine our culture without advertising. But how and why did advertising become a determiner of our self-image? Advertising the American looks carefully at the two decades when advertising discovered striking new ways to play on our anxieties and to promise solace for the masses. As American society became more urban, more complex, and more dominated by massive bureaucracies, the old American Dream seemed threatened. A…
The Anatomy of Dramatic Character
Very little in the study of the drama is as neglected as the phenomenon of character. We feel the force of its presence yet seem able to talk about it only in the vaguest of terms. Primarily, character is so elusive because it is at once cause and effect, both the fuel that drives the plot and a kind of exhaust or emanation given off by the plot. How can we possibly disentangle character and plot in an exchange such as this
The Actor's Presence
The Dog on the Stage
The Persistence of the Archetype
Horatio-Our Man in Elsinore
Research Article| January 01 1979 Horatio—Our Man in Elsinore: An Essay on Dramatic Logic Bert O. States Bert O. States Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1979) 78 (1): 46–56. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-78-1-46 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bert O. States; Horatio—Our Man in Elsinore: An Essay on Dramatic Logic. South Atlant…
Kenneth Burke and the Syllogism
Research Article| July 01 1969 Kenneth Burke and the Syllogism Bert O. States Bert O. States Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1969) 68 (3): 386–398. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-68-3-386 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bert O. States; Kenneth Burke and the Syllogism. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 1969; 68 (3): 386–398. doi: …
Servandoni's Successors at the French Opera
The work of those designers who followed Jean Nicolas Servandoni (1695–1766) at the Royal Academy of Music, at Court, and elsewhere in Paris, is, like his own, preserved only in the pages of Le Mercure de France, L'Avant-Coureur , and other journals and memoirs. While the museums abound in easel canvases and drawings by François Boucher (1703–1770), we are hard-pressed to find one print which has even a remote connection with the stage. On the ot…
Performance as Metaphor
Performance as Metaphor Bert O. States (bio) Performance is clearly one of those terms that Raymond Williams calls "keywords," or words (e.g., realism, naturalism, mimesis, structure) whose meanings are "inextricably bound up with the problems [they are] being used to discuss." 1 Find a word that is suddenly emerging from normal semantic practice (a word you are hearing, say, a dozen times a week), and you can bet that it is a proto-keyword sprea…
Dream bizarreness and inner thought
The paper offers a critique of bizarreness studies that compare dreams to real world probability ratios and directed thought processes as a basis for determining the degree of bizarreness in dreams. It examines two cases from the literature and suggests that dreams are better compared to non-directed, or imaginative waking thought processes, specifically Inner Thought and Speech (or “speech for oneself,” in Lev Vygotsky's definition), in which as…
Definitions of dream
A single definition for dreaming is most likely impossible given the wide spectrum of fields engaged in the study of dreaming, and the diversity in currently applied definitions. Many studies do not specify a definition, yet results are likely to be comparable only when comparable definitions of the topic are used. The alternative is to develop a classification system organizing the multiplicity of definitions for dream. A dream should not be exc…
Dreams, art and virtual worldmaking
This paper examines the possible role of dreams and other forms of virtual worldmaking (chiefly fictions) in forming and maintaining our adaptive systems. I posit no exclusive function for the dream. Rather, I treat it a an extension of fiction's preoccupation with our daily concerns, desires and fears. I suggest that narratives help us to enlarge and revise our perceptual and response systems, not by offering us moral or ethical propositions to …
Hamlet and the Concept of Character
The meaning of dreams
Dreaming as psychosis
Dreaming "accidentally" of Harold Pinter
Dreams
SubStance - Issue 94/95 (Volume 30, Number 1&2), 2001
Authorship in dreams and fictions
The Anatomy of Dramatic Character
Very little in the study of the drama is as neglected as the phenomenon of character. We feel the force of its presence yet seem able to talk about it only in the vaguest of terms. Primarily, character is so elusive because it is at once cause and effect, both the fuel that drives the plot and a kind of exhaust or emanation given off by the plot. How can we possibly disentangle character and plot in an exchange such as this
The Actor's Presence
The Persistence of the Archetype
Servandoni's Successors at the French Opera
The work of those designers who followed Jean Nicolas Servandoni (1695–1766) at the Royal Academy of Music, at Court, and elsewhere in Paris, is, like his own, preserved only in the pages of Le Mercure de France, L'Avant-Coureur , and other journals and memoirs. While the museums abound in easel canvases and drawings by François Boucher (1703–1770), we are hard-pressed to find one print which has even a remote connection with the stage. On the ot…
Kenneth Burke and the Syllogism
Research Article| July 01 1969 Kenneth Burke and the Syllogism Bert O. States Bert O. States Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1969) 68 (3): 386–398. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-68-3-386 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bert O. States; Kenneth Burke and the Syllogism. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 1969; 68 (3): 386–398. doi: …
Horatio-Our Man in Elsinore
Research Article| January 01 1979 Horatio—Our Man in Elsinore: An Essay on Dramatic Logic Bert O. States Bert O. States Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1979) 78 (1): 46–56. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-78-1-46 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bert O. States; Horatio—Our Man in Elsinore: An Essay on Dramatic Logic. South Atlant…
The Persistence of the Archetype
The Actor's Presence
The Dog on the Stage
Great Reckonings in Little Rooms
It has become impossible to imagine our culture without advertising. But how and why did advertising become a determiner of our self-image? Advertising the American looks carefully at the two decades when advertising discovered striking new ways to play on our anxieties and to promise solace for the masses. As American society became more urban, more complex, and more dominated by massive bureaucracies, the old American Dream seemed threatened. A…
The Anatomy of Dramatic Character
Very little in the study of the drama is as neglected as the phenomenon of character. We feel the force of its presence yet seem able to talk about it only in the vaguest of terms. Primarily, character is so elusive because it is at once cause and effect, both the fuel that drives the plot and a kind of exhaust or emanation given off by the plot. How can we possibly disentangle character and plot in an exchange such as this
Of Things, Selves, and Singers
Playing in Lyric Time
The meaning of dreams
Hamlet and the Concept of Character
Authorship in dreams and fictions
Dreaming "accidentally" of Harold Pinter
Performance as Metaphor
Performance as Metaphor Bert O. States (bio) Performance is clearly one of those terms that Raymond Williams calls "keywords," or words (e.g., realism, naturalism, mimesis, structure) whose meanings are "inextricably bound up with the problems [they are] being used to discuss." 1 Find a word that is suddenly emerging from normal semantic practice (a word you are hearing, say, a dozen times a week), and you can bet that it is a proto-keyword sprea…
Dreaming as delirium
My response to Allan Hobson makes several points. Primarily, I argue that the coherence of any dream cannot be determined by the recall of the dream events alone. Rather, coherence must surely reside in the dreamer's felt involvement in those dream events, and this is virtually impossible to determine from a dream report. Second, in response to Hobson's claim that a purely associative thought process neglects the role of dissociation, I argue tha…
Dreaming as psychosis
Dream bizarreness and inner thought
The paper offers a critique of bizarreness studies that compare dreams to real world probability ratios and directed thought processes as a basis for determining the degree of bizarreness in dreams. It examines two cases from the literature and suggests that dreams are better compared to non-directed, or imaginative waking thought processes, specifically Inner Thought and Speech (or “speech for oneself,” in Lev Vygotsky's definition), in which as…
Definitions of dream
A single definition for dreaming is most likely impossible given the wide spectrum of fields engaged in the study of dreaming, and the diversity in currently applied definitions. Many studies do not specify a definition, yet results are likely to be comparable only when comparable definitions of the topic are used. The alternative is to develop a classification system organizing the multiplicity of definitions for dream. A dream should not be exc…
Dreams
SubStance - Issue 94/95 (Volume 30, Number 1&2), 2001
Dreams, art and virtual worldmaking
This paper examines the possible role of dreams and other forms of virtual worldmaking (chiefly fictions) in forming and maintaining our adaptive systems. I posit no exclusive function for the dream. Rather, I treat it a an extension of fiction's preoccupation with our daily concerns, desires and fears. I suggest that narratives help us to enlarge and revise our perceptual and response systems, not by offering us moral or ethical propositions to …
The Actor's Presence
One way of approaching the phenomenology of the actor is to consider him as a kind of storyteller whose speciality is that he is the story he is telling. Presumably, the transitional between the true storyteller and the actor would be the rhapsode who tells his story (or rather someone else's) directly to the audience, simulating the more exciting parts of it in the manner of the First Player in Hamlet, who gets so carried away by the plight of H…
Great Reckonings in Little Rooms
Art (12 obras) · Psychoanalysis (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Theatre and Performance Studies (8 obras) · Sleep and Wakefulness Research (6 obras) · Aesthetics (5 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras) · Linguistics (5 obras) · Literature (5 obras) · Psychotherapist (5 obras)