Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity

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Cambridge University Press, 2004 M04 8 - 254 pages
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.
 

Contents

Discipline and performance genealogy and discontinuity
1
Institutions and performance professing performance in the early twentieth century
40
Culture and performance structures of dramatic feeling
79
Practice and performance modernist paradoxes and literalist legacies
109
History and performance blurred genres and the particularizing of the past
146
Identity and performance racial performativity and antiracist theatre
176
Notes
220
Select bibliography
239
Index
248
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