Contemporary academic discourse is filled with the word "perform". Nestled among a variety of prefixes and suffixes (re-, post-, -ance, -ivity?), the term functions as a vehicle for a host of inquiries. This development is intriguing and complex for students, artists, and scholars of performance and theater. By examining the history of theater studies and related institutions and comparing the very different disciplinary interpretations and developments that led to this engagement, this study offers ways of placing performance theory and performance studies in context.
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"Although a relatively slim volume, Professing Performance is an unusually ambitious, far-ranging and richly textured study." The Drama Review David Savran
"Although a relatively slim volume, Professing Performance is an unusually ambitious, far-ranging and richly textured study." The Drama Review David Savran
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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.
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professing performance, performing professor, racial performativity, modernist art criticism, synecdochic fallacies, disciplinary genealogy, performance studies scholars, social formalism, racial injury, white audience members, theatre scholars, performance scholars, theatre studies, blurred genres, new historicism, oral interpretation, performative speech Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative by Judith Butler on 8 pages
- Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews by Michael Fried on 6 pages
- Modern Tragedy by Raymond Williams on 6 pages
- The Theatre of Black Americans: A Collection of Critical Essays by Errol Hill on 5 pages
- The Novel and The Police by D. A. Miller on 5 pages
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- Theatricality (Theatre and Performance Theory) by Tracy C. Davis in Front Matter, and page 212
- Remembering: Oral History Performance (Palgrave Studies in Oral History) by Della Pollock on page 66, and Back Matter
- Stage Fright, Animals, and Other Theatrical Problems (Theatre and Performance Theory) by Nicholas Ridout in Front Matter
- Drama/Theatre/Performance (The New Critical Idiom) by Simon Shepherd in Back Matter
- Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre (Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre) by Mary Luckhurst on page 19
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