A pathognomy of performance
By: Simon Bayly
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780230271692
Subjects: PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning; Performing arts; Theater; Production and direction; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; Philosophy
Description: "Exploring the themes of the event, ephemerality and democracy that mark the encounter between performance and philosophy, this original study elaborates fresh perspectives on the experiences of undoing, fiasco and disaster that shadow both the both stage and everyday life"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of Illustrations; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Strains of Thought; title: Points of Suspension; title: Instants of Affection; title: Anomalous Appearances; title: The Borrowed Masks of Being; title: Logics of Expression; title: Wrinkles, Furrows and Folds; title: The Tonic of the Sonic; title: Deleted Expletives; title: Peals of Appeal; title: Bibliography; title: Index.