Dramas of Culture

Theory, History, Performance

AvWayne Jeffrey Froman,John Burt Foster Jr.

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-10-08
Mått:154 x 231 x 21 mm
Vikt:386 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture
Antal sidor:258
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739124109

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

Recensioner i media

Twelve astute critics assess the cultural turn in literary and historical studies. Focusing on philosophers and theorists ranging from Edmund Burke to Martin Heidegger, and writers and artists from Sophocles and Shakespeare to Marcel Duchamp, these engaging essays rethink questions of history, performance, and dramatic theory in the perspective of recent debates in cultural politics. Together the contributors stage and articulate major themes, including the conflicting emancipatory and oppressive potentials of culture, the multiplicity of possible dramatizations of history, and the philosophy and practice of performance. Informed by current literary, philosophical, and rhetorical theory, the essays constitute a rich source for readers exploring the conjunction of culture, drama, and performance..

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1 General IntroductionPart 2 Part One: Second Thoughts on the Cultural TurnChapter 3 IntroductionChapter 4 1. A Culture of Inclusion: Politics and PoetryChapter 5 2. The Narrative of Culture: "Burkean" PerspectivesChapter 6 3. The Spectacle of Cultural Studies: Marcel Duchamp and the Return of the RepressedPart 7 Part Two: Dramatic Categories in Cultural DiscourseChapter 8 IntroductionChapter 9 4. Setting the Scene: Judging Kenneth Burke JudgingChapter 10 5. Politics as Melodrama: Revolutions, Empty Signifiers, and the Political SublimeChapter 11 6. Gendering Tragic Conflict: Hegel's Antigone and the Vicissitudes of the DialecticPart 12 Part Three: Rethinking TragedyChapter 13 IntroductionChapter 14 7. Heidegger's Antigone: From Agonistic Nietzscheanism to Reconciliation with OthernessChapter 15 8. Characterless Tragedy: The Limits of Philosophical CatharsisChapter 16 9. Choreography of Fate: Lorca's Reconfiguration of the TragicPart 17 Part Four: Staging History, Posthistory, ParahistoryChapter 18 IntroductionChapter 19 10. Shakespeare's Richard II: History as ShadowplayChapter 20 11. Molière's Don Juan: Breaking Promises, But Not a Date with HistoryChapter 21 12. Heiner Müller's Parahistory: Beyond Marx and Brecht