Performativity and Performance Performativity And Performance

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Series:
Essays from the English Institute
Author:
Andrew Parker, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
ISBN:
9781135207564
Related ISBNs:
9780203699928, 9780415910545, 9780415910545, 9780415910552, 9780415910552
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2019-12-24
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
1996
Copyright by:
Routledge, Inc. 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Art and Architecture, Nonfiction, Social Studies