Dramas of culture : theory, history, performance / edited by Wayne Jeffrey Froman and John Burt Foster, Jr.
Froman, Wayne Jeffrey, 1945-; Foster, John Burt, 1945-
2009
CB19 .D683 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Dramas of culture : theory, history, performance / edited by Wayne Jeffrey Froman and John Burt Foster, Jr.
ISBN 9780739124093 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0739124099 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780739124109 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0739124102 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780739130407 (e-book)
0739130404 (e-book)
Publication Details Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2009.
Language English
Description x, 247 pages ; 23 cm.
Call Number CB19 .D683 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 901
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-234) and indexes.
Added Author Froman, Wayne Jeffrey, 1945-
Foster, John Burt, 1945-
Series Textures (Lanham, Md.)
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Second thoughts on the cultural turn
Dramatic categories in cultural discourse
Rethinking tragedy
Staging history, posthistory, parahistory.

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