Dramas of Culture - Theory, History, Performance (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture
Release date:	October 2008
First published:	May 2008
Editors:	Wayne Jeffrey Froman • John Burt Foster Jr
Contributors:	Stephen Barker • Gabriela Basterra • Christopher Braider • John Burt Foster • David Halliburton • Geoffrey H. Hartman • Elke Heckner • Catherine Liu
Dimensions:	231 x 154 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	258
ISBN-13:	978-0-7391-2410-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
LSN:	0-7391-2410-2
Barcode:	9780739124109

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