{"product_id":"performance-degree-zero-timothy-scheie-9780802090713","title":"Performance Degree Zero: Roland Barthes and Theatre","description":"\u003cp\u003eThroughout his career, famed critical theorist Roland Barthes (1915-1980) had a complex and often uneasy relationship with theatre and performance. From his early theatre criticism, through his abrupt and enigmatic silence on theatre, to the theoretical 'stagings' of his thought in the 1970s, Barthes committed several stunning reversals with his opinions on theatrical performance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePerformance Degree Zero\u003c\/i\u003e, Timothy Scheie argues that Barthes's body of work must be considered a lifelong engagement with theatre. Exploring his changing critical methodologies, Scheie provides a new understanding of the rapid shifts in critical modes Barthes traverses, from a Sartrean Marxism in the 1950s, through semiology, to French post-structuralism and the mournful introspection of his later years. The theatrical figure illuminates Barthes's accounts of the sign, the text, the body, homosexuality, love, the voice, photography, and other important and contested terms of his thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePerformance Degree Zero\u003c\/i\u003eoffers the first comprehensive account of Barthes's lifelong engagement with theatre and performance and fills a significant gap in Barthes criticism. It is essential reading for all Barthes scholars, theatre historians, and performance theorists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy Scheie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802090710\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802090713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Timothy Scheie","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065134952703,"sku":"9780802090713","price":102.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b09be997-f883-43fd-a036-7de598656052.jpg?v=1768673223","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/performance-degree-zero-timothy-scheie-9780802090713","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}