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Routledge
1995
Editors:
Andrew Parker & Eve Kosofsky
Sedgwick
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Introduction: Performativity and
Performance
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Timothy Gould
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The Unhappy Performative
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Joseph Roach
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Culture and Performance in the
Circum-Atlantic World
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Sandra L. Richards
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Writing the Absent Potential: Drama,
Performance, and the Canon of
African-American Literature
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Cathy Caruth
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Traumatic Awakenings
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Andrew Ford
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Katharsis: The Ancient Problem
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Stephen Orgel
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The Play of Conscience
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Elin Diamond
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The Shudder of Catharsis in
Twentieth-Century Performance
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Cindy Patton
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Performativity and Spatial Distinction:
The End of AIDS Epidemiology
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Judith Butler
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Burning Acts -- Injurious Speech
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From the age of Aristotle to the age of AIDS,
writers, thinkers, performers and activists have
wrestled with what "performance'' is all about.
Suddenly, theatre studies has transformed itself
the study of plays to the study of performance. At
the same moment, "performativity'' -- a new concept
in language theory -- has become a ubiquitous term
in literary studies. What do these transformations
have to do with one another. Is "performativity''
necessarily theatrical? Are performances
necessarily 'performative'?
This volume of new work by leading scholars in a
range of fields grapples with the nature of these
two key terms whose traces can be found everywhere:
in the theatre, in the streets, in philosophy, in
questions of race and gender, in the sentences we
speak.
Essays reexplore the classical definition of
katharsis, its reinvention in the Renaissance,
performance in circum-Atlantic cultures and in
African American literature, in Austin's language
theory, ideas in twentieth-century performance, and
the performative nature of language in activism and
hate-speech legislation.
Performativity and Performance takes stock of
the uses, implications, reimagined histories, and
new opportunities these changing concepts now
embrace.
240 pages
Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches; 229 x 153 mm
Performativity
and Performance
Routledge
1995
Editors:
Andrew Parker & Eve Kosofsky
Sedgwick
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