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  • Nomadic Theatre

    Mobilizing Theory and Practice on the European Stage

    by Dr Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink, Adrian Kear, Maaike Bleeker, Joe Kelleher, Professor Heike Roms ...
    Series series Thinking Through Theatre
    Fluid stages, morphing theatre spaces, ambulant spectators, and occasionally disappearing performers: these are some of the key ingredients of nomadic theatre. They are also theatre's response to life in the 21st century, which is increasingly marked by the mobility of people, information, technologies and services. While examining how contemporary theatre exposes and queries this mobile turn in ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Thinking Through Theatre and Performance

    Edited by Maaike Bleeker, Adrian Kear, Joe Kelleher, Professor Heike Roms ...
    Series series Thinking Through Theatre
    Thinking Through Theatre and Performance presents a bold and innovative approach to the study of theatre and performance. Instead of topics, genres, histories or theories, the book starts with the questions that theatre and performance are uniquely capable of asking: How does theatre function as a place for seeing and hearing? How do not only bodies and voices but also objects and media perform? ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Mourning Diana

    Nation, Culture and the Performance of Grief

    Edited by Adrian Kear, Deborah Lynn Steinberg ...
    The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on September 1 1997, prompted public demonstrations of grief on an almost unprecented global scale. But, while global media coverage of the events following her death appeared to create an international 'community of mourning', popular reacions in fact reflected the complexities of the princess's public image and the tensions surrounding the popular ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • International Politics and Performance

    Critical Aesthetics and Creative Practice

    Edited by Jenny Edkins, Adrian Kear ...
    Series series Interventions
    In recent years we have witnessed an increasing convergence of work in International Politics and Performance Studies around the troubled, and often troubling, relationship between politics and aesthetics. Whilst examination of political aesthetics, aesthetic politics, and politics of aesthetic practice has been central to research in both disciplines for some time, the emergence of a distinctive ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Psychoanalysis and Performance

    Edited by Patrick Campbell, Adrian Kear ...
    The field of literary studies has long recognised the centrality of psychoanalysis as a method for looking at texts in a new way. But rarely has the relationship between psychoanalysis and performance been mapped out, either in terms of analysing the nature of performance itself, or in terms of making sense of specific performance-related activities. In this volume some of the most distinguished ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Literature

    by Peter Widdowson ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    This introductory volume provides an overview of the history of Literature as a cultural concept, and reflects on the contemporary nature, place and function of what the literary might mean for us today. Literature:* offers a concise history of the canonic concept of 'literature' from its earliest origins* illustrates the kinds of theoretical issues which are currently invoked by the term ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Grammar of Politics and Performance

    Edited by Shirin M Rai, Janelle Reinelt ...
    Series series Interventions
    This volume brings together important work at the intersection of politics and performance studies. While the languages of theatre and performance have long been deployed by other disciplines, these are seldom deployed seriously and pursued systematically to discover the actual nature of the relationship between performance as a set of behavioural practices and the forms and the transactions of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Meaning of Life

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    We have all wondered about the meaning of life. But is there an answer? And do we even really know what we're asking? Terry Eagleton takes a stimulating and quirky look at this most compelling of questions: at the answers explored in philosophy and literature; at the crisis of meaning in modern times; and suggests his own solution to how we might rediscover meaning in our lives. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

    Migrant Metaphors

    by Elleke Boehmer ...
    Colonial and Postcolonial Literature is the leading critical overview of and historical introduction to colonial and postcolonial literary studies. Highly praised from the time of its first publication for its lucidity, breadth, and insight, the book has itself played a crucial part in founding and shaping this rapidly expanding field. The author, an internationally renowned postcolonial critic, ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Postcolonial Life-Writing

    Culture, Politics, and Self-Representation

    by Bart Moore-Gilbert ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    Postcolonial Life-Writing is the first attempt to offer a sustained critique of this increasingly visible and influential field of cultural production.Bart Moore-Gilbert considers the relationship between postcolonial life-writing and its western analogues, identifying the key characteristics that differentiate the genre in the postcolonial context. Focusing particularly on writing styles and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Translation

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Matthew Reynolds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the microwave: without it, there would be no world religions, and our literatures, our cultures, and our languages would be unrecognisable. In this Very Short Introduction, Matthew Reynolds gives an authoritative and thought-provoking account of the field, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminism

    Edited by Sarah Gamble ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    Approachable for general readers as well as for students in women's studies related courses at all levels, this invaluable guide follows the unique Companion format in combining over a dozen in-depth background chapters with more than 400 A-Z dictionary entries. The background chapters are written by major figures in the field of feminist studies, and include thorough coverage of the history of ... Read more

    $45.99 USD