Theory for Performance Studies A Student's Guide

Name: Theory for Performance Studies A Student's Guide
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ISBN: 9780415974530

ISBN-10: 0415974534

ISBN-13: 9780415974530

Edition: 2007

Authors: 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 figuresnbsp; Freud, Marz, Nietzsche and Saussurenbsp; 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. …

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



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



HFlTne Cixous



Gilles Deleuze & FFlix Guattari



Jacques Derrida



Michel Foucault



Hans-Georg Gadamer



Luce Irigaray



Julia Kristeva



Jacques Lacan



Henri Lefebvre



Emmanuel Levinas



Jean-Frantois Lyotard



Maurice Merleau-Ponty



Edward W. Said



Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak



Hayden White



Raymond Williams



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