Professing Performance : Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity Hardback
by Shannon (University of California, Berkeley) Jackson
Part of the Theatre and Performance Theory series
Hardback
Description
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.
This 2004 book considers the connection amongst a range of performance forms such as oratory, theatre, dance, and performance art and explores performance as both a humanistic and technical field of education.
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:268 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:08/04/2004
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- ISBN:9780521651899
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:268 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:08/04/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521651899
