Theory for performance studies

Theory for performance studies: a student's guide

by Auslander, Philip

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Theory for Performance Studies: A Student's Guide is a clear and concise handbook to the key connections between performance studies and critical theory since the 1960s. Philip Auslander looks at the way the concept of performance has been engaged across a number of disciplines. Beginning with four foundational figures - Freud, Marz, Nietzsche and Saussure - Auslander goes on to provide guided introductions to the major theoretical thinkers of the past century, from Althusser to Zizek. Each ent…

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  • Full title :Theory for performance studies : a student's guide / Philip Auslander.

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Theory for Performance Studies: A Student's Guide is a clear and concise handbook to the key connections between performance studies and critical theory since the 1960s. Philip Auslander looks at the way the concept of performance has been engaged across a number of disciplines. Beginning with four foundational figures - Freud, Marz, Nietzsche and Saussure - Auslander goes on to provide guided introductions to the major theoretical thinkers of the past century, from Althusser to Zizek. Each entry offers biographical, theoretical, and bibliographical information along with a discussion of ea.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2008.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:London
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2008.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (vi, 168 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780203944837, 0203944836
  • oclc:ocn174258232
  • LC Classification:PN1590.S6
  • Dewey Decimal:792.02/2

Table of Contents

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Introduction Theory for performance studies -- who needs it?; Part I Predecessors; 1 Sigmund Freud; 2 Karl Marx; 3 Friedrich Nietzsche; 4 Ferdinand de Saussure; Part II The theorists; 5 Louis Althusser; 6 Mikhail Bakhtin; 7 Roland Barthes; 8 Georges Bataille; 9 Jean Baudrillard; 10 Walter Benjamin; 11 Pierre Bourdieu; 12 Judith Butler; 13 Hélène Cixous; 14 Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari; 15 Jacques Derrida; 16 Michel Foucault; 17 Hans-Georg Gadamer; 18 Luce Irigaray; 19 Julia Kristeva; 20 Jacques Lacan; 21 Henri Lefebvre.

22 Emmanuel Levinas23 Jean-François Lyotard; 24 Maurice Merleau-Ponty; 25 Edward W. Said; 26 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; 27 Hayden White; 28 Raymond Williams; 29 Slavoj Žižek.

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Subjects

Arts du spectacle -- Aspect social Arts du spectacle -- Philosophie Performing arts -- Philosophy Performing arts -- Social aspects

Writers

Auslander, Philip

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