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Representation and identity from Versailles to the present : the performing subject /
This book investigates the shifting relationship between performance and subjectivity over the course of the Modern era. Each chapter details a different set of performance strategies designed to grant the subject a stable sense of self-identity, and each explores the fallout from the ultimate failu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The performing subject: identity and representation in the modern and the postmodern eras
- Dancing with the Sun King: the performance of privilege in the reign of Louis XIV
- "Snip snip here, snip snip there, and a couple of tra-la-la's": the rise and fall of the castrato singer
- Liberty, equality, festivity: citizen action and the libratory legacy of the French Revolution
- Smoke and mirrors: the hysterical woman from Zola to Freud
- Communism: coming to a screen near you! Benjamin, Adorno, and the politics of mediatization
- Conclusion: queer horizons--postmodern performativity and political action.