From the age of Aristotle to the age of AIDS, writers, thinkers, performers and activists have wresteled with what "performance" is all about. At the same moment, "performativity"--a new concept in language theory--has become a ubiquitous term in literary studies. This volume 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, and in the sentences we speak.
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Andrew Parker is Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is Neuman Ivey White Professor of English at Duke University.
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- The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud on page 72, page 76, and page 88
- Catharsis in Literature by Adnan K. Abdulla on page 110, page 151, and Back Matter
- Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses by Michael Taussig in Front Matter, page 152, and Back Matter
- Centre and Labyrinth: Essays in Honour of Northrop Frye by Eleanor Cook on page 112, page 150, and Back Matter
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- Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory by Stephen M. Barber on 4 pages
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- Wisdom of Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W. B. Yeats by Margaret Mills Harper on 4 pages
- Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance by Daylanne K. English on 4 pages
- After Criticism: New Responses to Art and Performance (New Interventions in Art History) by Gavin Butt in Front Matter, page 63, and Back Matter
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