Dramas of culture : theory, history, performance / edited by Wayne Jeffrey Froman and John Burt Foster, Jr.

9780739124093 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0739124099 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780739124109 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0739124102 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780739130407 (e-book)
0739130404 (e-book)

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2009.

English

x, 247 pages ; 23 cm.

CB19 .D683 2009

901

This book presents interwoven interdisciplinary essays on the role of performance as inscribed within contemporary cultural debate. Part One addresses the recent cultural turn in scholarship and public affairs and offers three provocative discussions of its genealogy, goals, and shortcomings. Underpinning these arguments are the key dramatic elements of language, performativity, and spectacle. Part Two stresses the constitutive roles of scene and setting, melodrama, and tragic conflict for literary theory, political thought, and dialectical philosophy, each with direct bearings on contemporary cultural studies. Parts Three and Four turn to the intellectual and cultural significance of specific plays in the Western repertoire.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and indexes.

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