Performativity and performance
By: edited with an introduction by Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
Contributors: Parker, Andrew, 1953-; Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky.; English Institute.
Series: Essays from the English Institute
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Speech acts (Linguistics); Performance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-237).
Papers presented at the English Institute, 1993.
Table of contents: title: The unhappy performative / Timothy Gould; title: Culture and performance in the circum-Atlantic world / Joseph Roach; title: Writing the absent potential : drama, performance, and the canon of African-American literature / Sandra L. Richards; title: Traumatic awakenings / Cathy Caruth; title: Kathasis : the ancient problem / Andrew Ford; title: The play of conscience / Stephen Orgel; title: The shudder of catharsis in twentieth-century performance / Elin Diamond; title: Performativity and spatial distinction : the end of AIDS epidemiology / Cindy Patton; title: Burning acts, injurious speech / Judith Butler.