Professing performance : theatre in the academy from philololgy to performativity
"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. Shannon Jackson considers the connection amongst a range of performance forms. Throughout, she explores the institutional history of performance in the US academy in order to revise current debates around the role of the arts and humanities in higher education."--Jacket
xi, 254 pages ; 23 cm.
9780521651899, 9780521656054, 0521651891, 0521656052
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Discipline and performance: genealogy and discontinuity
Institutions and performance: professing performance in the early twentieth century
Culture and Performance: structures of dramatic feeling
Practice and performance: modernist paradoxes and literalist legacies
History and performance: blurred genres and the particularizing of the past
Identity and performance: racial performativity and anti-racist theatre