{"product_id":"eye-of-prey-subversions-of-the-postmodern-9780253204394","title":"Eye of Prey: Subversions of the Postmodern","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Herbert H. Blau\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Performance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHerbert Blau here reflects on performance as it moved from the theatricalized activism of the sixties into the theoretical activism of the eighties. The essays \u003ci\u003etheorize\u003c\/i\u003e rather than formulate an ideological program. Blau takes risks at the speculative edge of thought. \u003ci\u003eThe Eye of Prey \u003c\/i\u003eis comprised of diverse subject matter: love and mourning, play and aging, radical feminist and homosexual discourse, the politics of representation, comedy since the Absurd, Barthes and Beckett, Beckett and Derrida--a critique of certain aspects of postmodern thought and performance, and in particular the ideological program of \"the subject of desire.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46893953646743,"sku":"9780253204394","price":2044.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780253204394.webp?v=1770320225","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/eye-of-prey-subversions-of-the-postmodern-9780253204394","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}