Dramas of Culture: Theory, History, Performance (Textures: Philosophy / Literature / Culture) - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0739124102 ISBN 13 : 9780739124109

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2008

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Wayne Jeffrey Froman is associate professor of philosophy at George Mason University. John Burt Foster, Jr., is professor of English at George Mason University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0739124102
• ISBN 13: 9780739124109
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 258
• Éditeur: Froman Wayne Jeffrey
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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