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Dramas of Culture : Theory, History, Performance, Hardback Book

Dramas of Culture : Theory, History, Performance Hardback

Edited by Wayne Jeffrey Froman, John Burt Foster Jr

Part of the TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture series

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Dramas of Culture is shaped by twelve carefully interwoven interdisciplinary essays on the role of performance as inscribed within contemporary cultural debate.

Part One addresses the recent cultural turn in scholarship and public affairs and offers three provocative discussions of its genealogy, goals, and shortcomings.

Underpinning these arguments are the key dramatic elements of language, performativity, and spectacle.

Part Two stresses the constitutive roles of scene and setting, melodrama, and tragic conflict for literary theory, political thought, and dialectical philosophy, each with direct bearings on contemporary cultural studies.

Parts Three and Four turn to the intellectual and cultural significance of specific plays in the Western repertoire.

Part Three examines several major efforts to rethink the nature of tragedy as a dramatic genre, emphasizing its capacity to reveal the fragility and provisionality of culture, while Part Four focuses on prominent examples of the shifting relations among drama, history, and processes of cultural change.

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