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The Performance of power : theatrical discourse and politics / edited by Sue-Ellen Case and Janelle Reinelt.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in theatre history and culturePublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1991.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (xix, 284 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1587290340
  • 9781587290343
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Performance of power.DDC classification:
  • 792 20
LOC classification:
  • PN1631 .P47 1991eb
Other classification:
  • 24.02
  • 24.02.
Online resources:
Contents:
Sexual politics and cultural identity in The masque of blackness / Kim F. Hall -- The good soldier Schwejk as dialectical theater / Sarah Bryant-Bertail -- Revolution ... history ... theater : the politics of Wooster Group second trilogy / David Savran -- Bernard Shaw and the drama of imperialism / J. Ellen Gainor -- Constructing Patroclus : the high and low discourses of Renaissance sodomy / Gregory W. Bredbeck -- The politics of Metamora / Jeffrey D. Mason -- The Eurocolonial reception of Sanskrit poetics / Sue-Ellen Case -- The artificial eye : Augustan theater and the empire of the visible / Joseph Roach -- The playhouse and the committee / Barry B. Witham -- Spectacle as government : Dickens and the working-class audience / Janice Carlisle -- Victorian players and sages / Nina Auerbach -- Charlie Chaplin, Soviet icon / Spencer Golub -- Theorizing utopia : Edward Bond's war plays / Janelle Reinelt -- Demographics and the academy / Margaret B. Wilkerson -- The challenge to professional training and development / Simon Williams -- Integrating instruction, production, and research / Jon Whitmore -- Conferring power in the theater / Gay Gibson Cima -- New historicism and American theater history : toward an interdisciplinary paradigm for scholarship / Bruce A. McConachie -- The theory of history / Marvin Carlson.
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  • digitized 2011 committed to preserve
Summary: Recently in the field of theatre studies there has been an increasing amount of debate and dissonance regarding the borders of its territory, its methodologies, subject matter, and scholarly perspectives. The nature of this debate could be termed "political" and, in fact, concerns "the performance of power"--The struggle over power relations embedded in texts, methodologies, and the academy itself. This striking new collection of nineteen divergent essays represents this performance of power and the way in which the recent convergence of new critical theories wit.
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Sexual politics and cultural identity in The masque of blackness / Kim F. Hall -- The good soldier Schwejk as dialectical theater / Sarah Bryant-Bertail -- Revolution ... history ... theater : the politics of Wooster Group second trilogy / David Savran -- Bernard Shaw and the drama of imperialism / J. Ellen Gainor -- Constructing Patroclus : the high and low discourses of Renaissance sodomy / Gregory W. Bredbeck -- The politics of Metamora / Jeffrey D. Mason -- The Eurocolonial reception of Sanskrit poetics / Sue-Ellen Case -- The artificial eye : Augustan theater and the empire of the visible / Joseph Roach -- The playhouse and the committee / Barry B. Witham -- Spectacle as government : Dickens and the working-class audience / Janice Carlisle -- Victorian players and sages / Nina Auerbach -- Charlie Chaplin, Soviet icon / Spencer Golub -- Theorizing utopia : Edward Bond's war plays / Janelle Reinelt -- Demographics and the academy / Margaret B. Wilkerson -- The challenge to professional training and development / Simon Williams -- Integrating instruction, production, and research / Jon Whitmore -- Conferring power in the theater / Gay Gibson Cima -- New historicism and American theater history : toward an interdisciplinary paradigm for scholarship / Bruce A. McConachie -- The theory of history / Marvin Carlson.

Recently in the field of theatre studies there has been an increasing amount of debate and dissonance regarding the borders of its territory, its methodologies, subject matter, and scholarly perspectives. The nature of this debate could be termed "political" and, in fact, concerns "the performance of power"--The struggle over power relations embedded in texts, methodologies, and the academy itself. This striking new collection of nineteen divergent essays represents this performance of power and the way in which the recent convergence of new critical theories wit.

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