| Description |
239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Essays from the English Institute |
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Essays from the English Institute.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Performativity and Performance / Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- 1. The Unhappy Performative / Timothy Gould -- 2. Culture and Performance in the Circum-Atlantic World / Joseph Roach -- 3. Writing the Absent Potential: Drama, Performance, and the Canon of African-American Literature / Sandra L. Richards -- 4. Traumatic Awakenings / Cathy Caruth -- 5. Katharsis: The Ancient Problem / Andrew Ford -- 6. The Play of Conscience / Stephen Orgel -- 7. The Shudder of Catharsis in Twentieth-Century Performance / Elin Diamond -- 8. Performativity and Spatial Distinction: The End of AIDS Epidemiology / Cindy Patton -- 9. Burning Acts - Injurious Speech / Judith Butler |
| Analysis |
Linguistics Related to Semiotics |
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Linguistics Related to Semiotics |
| Notes |
Papers presented at the English Institute, 1993 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [228]-237) |
| Subject |
Performance -- Congresses.
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Performance.
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Speech acts (Linguistics)
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Speech acts (Linguistics) -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Parker, Andrew, 1953-
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Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky.
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English Institute.
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| LC no. |
94023046 |
| ISBN |
0415910544 (acid-free paper) |
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0415910552 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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9780415910552 |
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