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Theories of Performance

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Book cover type: Misc
  • ISBN13: 9781350118096
  • Binding: Misc
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  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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  • Original Price: GBP 695.0
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 2516 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Criticism & Theory

Theories of Performance: Critical and Primary Sources offers a comprehensive collection of key writings on a subject which has come to permeate fields as diverse as theatre, comparative literature, philosophy, geography, history, English, science and technology studies, in what has been termed the transdisciplinary 'performative turn'. The collected essays draw upon writing from these diverse disciplines, together illustrating how performance has become an ever more vibrant and plastic discursive practice. It includes perspectives from regions and disciplines less well-represented in performance theory up to now, including from East Asia and the Middle East, as well as from material sciences and engineering, physics, and education theory. Selections also include indigenous and otherwise politically marginalized perspectives from within and outside the academic field of Performance Studies.

Each volume is introduced by the editor and arranged thematically, with writings in chronological sequence so that the development of ideas can be traced within a theme. The set includes 90 essays covering the following major areas: discipline, method, documentation, and body politic.

Together the four volumes of Theories of Performance present a major scholarly resource for the field.

Dr. Kélina Gotman is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies in the Department of English at King's College London, UK. She is author of Choreomania: Dance and Disorder (2018), winner of the David Bradby Award for international research in theatre and performance, Theatre and Performance Research Association. She is also author of Essays on Theatre and Change: Towards a Poetics Of (2018), and co-editor of Theatre, Performance, Foucault! (with Tony Fisher). She has taught cultural and critical theory, performance and writing at Columbia University, Bard College, and The Eugene Lang College for Liberal Arts at The New School. In 2015-16 she was Visiting Scholar at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University and Honorary Lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL; and previously Audrey and William H. Helfand Fellow in the Medical Humanities at the New York Academy of Medicine.

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