Writing Performance Poeticizing the Researcher's Body

Name: Writing Performance Poeticizing the Researcher's Body
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ISBN: 9780809322350

ISBN-10: 0809322358

ISBN-13: 9780809322350

Edition: 1999

Authors: Ronald J. Pelias

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Ronald J. Pelias is concerned with writing about performance, from the everyday performative routines to the texts on stage. He seeks to write performatively, to offer poetic or aesthetic renderings of performance events in order to capture some sense of their nature. In his quest for the spirit of theatrical performances, Pelias asks more of the written word than the word can deliver. Yet the attempt is both desirable—and necessary. To discuss performance without some accounting for its essence as art, he asserts, is at best misleading, at worst, fraud. Pelias divides his efforts to present performance events into three general categories: "Performing Every Day," "On Writing and…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 8/4/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English