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  • Theater Historiography

    Critical Interventions

    by Henry Carl Bial, Scott Magelssen ...
    Theater Historiography: Critical Interventions is a vital exploration of how we write, interpret, and understand the history of theater. Edited by Henry Bial and Scott Magelssen, this collection brings together leading voices in theater and performance studies to interrogate the methodologies, assumptions, and politics that shape the field. Each of the twenty-one essays offers a concise, thought ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • The Performance Studies Reader

    Edited by Henry Bial, Sara Brady ...
    Since its first publication in 2004, The Performance Studies Reader has become the leading anthology of key writings on performance studies. Now in its fourth edition, it continues to offer an unparalleled selection of work by the foremost scholars in this continually evolving field, offering a stimulating introduction to the crucial debates of Performance Studies.These critical and theoretical ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Playing God

    The Bible on the Broadway Stage

    by Henry Carl Bial ...
    Biblical texts have inspired more than 100 Broadway plays and musicals, ranging from early spectacles like Ben-Hur (1899) to more familiar works such as Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar. What happens when a culture’s most sacred text enters its most commercial performance venue? Playing God focuses on eleven successful productions, as well as a few notable flops that highlight the difficulties ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Brecht Sourcebook

    Edited by Henry Bial, Carol Martin ...
    Series series Worlds of Performance
    Bertolt Brecht is one of the most prolific and influential writer-directors of the twentieth century. This fascinating anthology brings together in one volume many of the most important articles written about Brecht between 1957 and 1997. The collection explores a wide range of viewpoints about Brecht's theatre theories and practice, as well as including three plays not otherwise available in ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Critical University Studies and Performance

    by Shelby Brewster, Khalid Y. Long, Hannah Schwadron, Danielle Rosvally, Samuel Yates, Charlotte M. Canning, Anita Gonzalez, Cortland Gilliam, Tommy Noonan, Elizabeth Olson, Marisa Williamson, Henry Bial, Bethany Hughes, Michelle Liu Carriger ...
    Critical University Studies and Performance explores how we contend with issues of power, race, class, and gender in higher education, specifically as they relate to the complexities of theater and performance studies programs. In what ways might the fields of theater, performance, and dance studies, as they operate in institutions of higher education, support hegemonic logics as well as model ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Great North American Stage Directors Volume 4

    George Abbott, Vinnette Carroll, Harold Prince

    by Professor James Peck ...
    Series series Great Stage Directors
    George Abbott, Vinnette Carroll, and Harold (Hal) Prince were trailblazing figures who helped shape and define the Broadway musical over the course of the 20th century. Their careers expanded the boundaries of the genre, highlighting the critical role of the director in the creation of a new musical. As theatre history, the essays in this volume help to complicate and deepen the reader's ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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    Folklore's Grasp on Social Life

    by Dorothy Noyes ...
    A collection of fifteen essays exploring what folklore is, its history, and how it all connects to the world.Celebrated folklorist, Dorothy Noyes, offers an unforgettable glimpse of her craft and the many ways it matters. Folklore is the dirty linen of modernity, carrying the traces of working bodies and the worlds they live in. It is necessary but embarrassing, not easily blanched and made ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature

    Edited by Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, Brian McHale ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    What is experimental literature? How has experimentation affected the course of literary history, and how is it shaping literary expression today? Literary experiment has always been diverse and challenging, but never more so than in our age of digital media and social networking, when the very category of the literary is coming under intense pressure. How will literature reconfigure itself in the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia

    Edited by Tobias Becker, Dylan Trigg ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia serves as a guide to the complex and often contradictory concept of nostalgia, as well as the field of “nostalgia studies” more broadly.Nostalgia is an area of intense interest across several disciplines as well as within society and culture more generally. This handbook brings together an international, interdisciplinary team of researchers to survey the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Art

    by James Harold ...
    Series series OXFORD HANDBOOKS SERIES
    This volume is about how and whether art can be morally bad (or morally good). Politicians, media pundits, and others frequently complain that particular works of art are morally dangerous, or, sometimes, that particular works are morally edifying (the "great works" of literature, for example). But little attention is often given to the question of what makes art morally good in the first place. ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Studies in Trans-Disciplinary Method

    After the Aesthetic Turn

    by Michael Shapiro ...
    Series series Interventions
    This groundbreaking and innovative text addresses the deep ontological and epistemological commitments that underpin conventional positivist methods and then demonstrates how "method" can be understood in much broader and more interesting ways.Drawing on a broad range of philosophical and methodological theory as well as a wide variety of artistic sources from fine art to cinema and from ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism

    Edited by Eric Hayot, Rebecca Walkowitz ...
    Series series Modernist Latitudes
    Bringing together leading critics and literary scholars, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism argues for new ways of understanding the nature and development of twentieth-century literature and culture. Scholars have largely understood modernism as an American and European phenomenon. Those parameters have expanded in recent decades, but the incorporation of multiple origins and influences has ... Read more

    $31.49 USD