Performativity and Performance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415910552)

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.

Author: Andrew Parker
ISBN-10: 0415910552
ISBN-13: 9780415910552
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/24/1995
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d