| Dramas of Culture: Theory, History, Performance Contributor(s): Froman, Wayne Jeffrey (Editor), Foster, John Burt, Jr. (Editor), Barker, Stephen (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0739124099 ISBN-13: 9780739124093 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $124.74 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2008 Annotation: Dramas of Culture is the first volume in the TEXTURES Philosophy/Literature/Culture series to study drama as a cultural effect, linking theatricality to main currents of continental philosophical thinking, cultural critique, and literary theory and interpretationfrom Aristotle to contemporary cultural studies. The twelve interwoven interdisciplinary essays focus on the dramatic strategies deployed in cultural discourse and on the cultural meanings embedded in key dramatic writings in the Western repertoire. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - Political Science | Public Policy - Cultural Policy - Literary Criticism | Drama |
| Dewey: 901 |
| LCCN: 2008010156 |
| Series: Textures: Philosophy / Literature / Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.21 lbs) 258 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |