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Dramas of Culture - Theory, History, Performance (Hardcover, New)
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Dramas of Culture - Theory, History, Performance (Hardcover, New)
Series: TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture
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Dramas of Culture is shaped by twelve carefully 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. Part
Three examines several major efforts to rethink the nature of
tragedy as a dramatic genre, emphasizing its capacity to reveal the
fragility and provisionality of culture, while Part Four focuses on
prominent examples of the shifting relations among drama, history,
and processes of cultural change.
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