A Non-Aristotelian Model: Time as Space and Landscape in Postmodern Theatre

In his Poetics, Aristotle articulated certain ideas on the structure of drama that dominated both dramatic literature and theatre practices for the centuries to come. In this article I show how the thorough analysis of his statements leads us to believe that he endorses causality, narrativity, and temporal linearity as primary factors in the organization of dramatic and stage texts. Tracing various modifications of causality throughout theatre history, I use the work of the two prominent contemporary directors, Eimuntas Nekrosius and Anatoly Vasilyev, to demonstrate how postmodernist theatre has arrived at non-Aristotelian theatrical model based on the unity of a time–space continuum rather than temporal development.     

Comparison of some biological activities of arginine vasotocin and synthetic analogs

Zusammenfassung Nachweis, dass die Substitution in Positionen 3 und 8 im Arginin Vasotocin ([8-Arginin]-Oxytocin) selektive Veränderungen verschiedener biologischer Aktivitäten hervorruft, was am Modell der Oxytocinkonformation diskutiert wird.

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Supported in part by USPHS grant No. AM-13567.

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Neurohypophyseal hormone analogs are denoted in accordance with IUPAC-IUB Tentative Rules on Biochemical Nomenclature, Biochemistry6, 362 (1967) and J. biol. Chem.247, 977 (1972). All optically active amino acids are of thel-configuration unless otherwise noted. Arginine vasopressin, [8-arginine]vasopressin; lysine vasopressin, [8-lysine]vasopressin; AVT, arginine vasotocin, [8-arginine]oxytocin; Mpr, -mercaptopropionic acid.

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Acknowledgment. We thank Dr.Klaus Lübke, Schering AG, West Germany, for generously supplying us with the hormone analogs.