| Description |
xi, 254 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Theatre and performance theory |
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Theatre and performance theory.
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| Contents |
1. Discipline and performance : genealogy and discontinuity -- 2. Institutions and performance : professing performance in the early twentieth century -- 3. Culture and performance : structures of dramatic feeling -- 4. Practice and performance : modernist paradoxes and literalist legacies -- 5. History and performance : blurred genres and the particularizing of the past -- 6. Identity and performance : racial performativity and anti-racist theatre |
| Summary |
"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 development is intriguing and complex. By examining the history of theatre studies and related institutions and by comparing the very different disciplinary interpretations and developments that led to this engagement, Professing Performance offers ways of placing performance theory and performance studies in context. Shannon Jackson considers the connection amongst a range of performance forms. Throughout, she explores the institutional history of performance in the US academy in order to revise current debates around the role of the arts and humanities in higher education."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Performing arts -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Performing arts.
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| LC no. |
2003055729 |
| ISBN |
0521656052 paperback |
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0521651891 hardback |
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