Theory for performance studies: a student's guide
"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, Marx, Nietzsche, and Saussure - Auslander goes on to provide guided introductions to the major theoretical thinkers of the past century, from Althusser to Zizek. Each…
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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, Marx, 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 each figure's relevance to theatre and performance studies and suggestions for future research."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
Notes
Adapted from: Theory for religious studies / William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal. New York: Routledge, 2004.
The Physical Object
- Description:vi, 168 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780415974523, 0415974526, 9780415974530, 0415974534, 9780203944837, 0203944836
- oclc:ocm82368035
- LC Classification:PN1590.S6
- Dewey Decimal:792.02/2
Table of Contents
Predecessors. Sigmund Freud ; Karl Marx ; Friedrich Nietzsche ; Ferdinand de Saussure -- The theorists. Louis Althusser ; Mikhail Bakhtin ; Roland Barthes ; Georges Bataille ; Jean Baudrillard ; Walter Benjamin ; Pierre Bourdieu ; Judith Butler ; Hélène Cixous ; Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari ; Jacques Derrida ; Michel Foucault ; Hans-Georg Gadamer ; Luce Irigaray ; Julia Kristeva ; Jacques Lacan ; Henri Lefebvre ; Emmanuel Levinas ; Jean-François Lyotard ; Maurice Merleau-Ponty ; Edward W. Said ; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ; Hayden White ; Raymond Williams ; Slavoj Zižek.
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