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Professing performance : theatre in the academy from philololgy to performativity /

Today's academic discourse is filled with the word 'perform'. Nestled amongst a variety of prefixes and suffixes (re-, post-, -ance, -ivity?), the term functions as a vehicle for a host of contemporary inquiries. For students, artists, and scholars of performance and theatre, this dev...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jackson, Shannon, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Colección:Theatre and performance theory.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Discipline and performance: genealogy and discontinuity
  • Institutions and performance: professing performance in the early twentieth century
  • Culture and Performance: structures of dramatic feeling
  • Practice and performance: modernist paradoxes and literalist legacies
  • History and performance: blurred genres and the particularizing of the past
  • Identity and performance: racial performativity and anti-racist theatre.