Book Details
Format
Kindle
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
Nov 5, 2013
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
1135207569
ISBN-13
9781135207564
Description
From the age of Aristotle to the age of AIDS, writers, thinkers, performers and activists have wresteled with what "performance" is all about. At the same moment, "performativity"--a new concept in language theory--has become a ubiquitous term in literary studies. This volume grapples with the nature of these two key terms whose traces can be found everywhere: in the theatre, in the streets, in philosophy, in questions of race and gender, and in the sentences we speak.
Genres
Philosophy
Nature