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Performance Degree Zero : Roland Barthes and Theatre /

Throughout his career, Roland Barthes (1915-1980) had a complex and often uneasy relationship with theatre and performance. In Performance Degree Zero, Timothy Scheie argues that Barthes's body of work must be considered a lifelong engagement with theatre. Exploring his changing critical method...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scheie, Timothy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Tragic utopia : Barthes's theatre criticism, 1953-1960
  • Performance and its double : the 'live' and the structuralist abstraction
  • Staging theory : theatricality and the displacement of desire
  • Mourning presence : performance at the crossroads.