Deleuze and Performance - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0748635041 ISBN 13 : 9780748635047

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Was performance important to Deleuze? Is Deleuze important to performance; to its practical, as well as theoretical, research? What are the implications of Deleuze's philosophy of difference, process and becoming, for Performance Studies, a field in which many continue to privilege the notion of performance as representation, as anchored by its imitation of an identity: 'the world', 'the play', 'the self'?

Deleuze and Performance is a collection of new essays dedicated to Deleuze's writing on theatre and to the productivity of his philosophy for (re)thinking performance. This book provides rigorous analyses of Deleuze's writings on theatre practitioners such as Artaud, Beckett and Carmelo Bene, as well as offering innovative readings of historical and contemporary performance including performance art, dance, new media performance, theatre and opera, which use Deleuze's concepts in exciting new ways. Can philosophy follow Deleuze in overcoming the antitheatrical tradition embedded in its history, perhaps even reconsidering what it means to think in the light of the embodied insights of performance's practitioners? Experts from the fields of Performance Studies and Deleuze Studies come together in this volume and strive to examine these and other issues in a manner that will be challenging, yet accessible to students and established scholars alike.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Laura Cull is a Lecturer in the Visual and Performing Arts Division at Northumbria University and Chair of the PSi Performance and Philosophy working group.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0748635041
• ISBN 13: 9780748635047
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Cull Laura
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible