Performance Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies Series

Over the past twenty years, 'performance' has emerged as a central analytical and critical concept. Now the focus of a burgeoning academic discipline, performance studies, it is also crucial to many other fields, including anthropology, sociology, communications, art history, cultural studies, linguistics and rhetoric. This collection brings together major texts articulating perspectives on performance and performativity.The multi-disciplinary approach of this collection reflects the growing importance of the concept of performance across a variety of disciplines. With a new introduction contextualising the concept's rise, and a full index to guide the reader through the work, this will be an invaluable reference tool for students and researchers alike.

Volume IPart I. Foundations and DefinitionsSection 1.1 Foundational Texts and Concepts1. Arnold Van Gennep, 'The Territorial Passage' in The Rites of Passage, Monika B.Vizedom and Gabrielle L.Caffee, trans., pp. 15-25 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1960 [1908?])2. Johan Huizinga, 'Nature and Significance of Play as a Cultural Phenomenon', in Homo Ludens:A Study in the Play-Element of Culture, pp. 1-27 (Boston: Beacon Press, 1955 [1938])3. Milton Singer, 'Search for a Great Tradition in Cultural Performances', in When a Great Tradition Modernizes, pp. 67-80 (New York: Praeger, 1972)4. Kenneth Burke, Ritual Drama as 'Hub', in The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action, pp. 87-113 (New York: Vintage Books, 1957)5. J.L.Austin, 'Lecture I' in How to Do Things with Words, 2nd Ed., J.O.Urmson and Marina Sbisa, eds., pp. 1-11(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975)6. Erving Goffman, 'Introduction', in The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, pp. 1-16 (New York: Doubleday, 1959)Section 1.2 Definitions, Distinctions, and Debates7. Bert O.States, 'Performance as Metaphor', Theatre Journal, 48, 1, pp. 1-26, 19968. Grahame F.Thompson, Approaches to 'Performance', Screen, 26,5, pp. 78-90, 19859. Janelle Reinelt, 'The Politics of Discourse: Performativity Meets Theatricality', Substance, 31,1 a 2, 200210. Jon McKenzie, 'Virtual Reality: Performance, Immersion, and the Thaw', TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies, 38,4, pp. 83-106, 1994Section 1.3 Disciplinary Actions11. Clifford Geertz, 'Blurred Genres: The Refiguration of Social Thought',The American Scholar, 49, pp. 165-179, 197912. Sheldon L., Messinger, Harold Sampson, Robert D.Towne, 'Life as Theater: Some Notes on the Dramaturgic Approach to Social Reality', Sociometry 25,1, pp. 98-110, 196213. Ronald J.Pelias and James VanOosting,'A Paradigm for Performance Studies', Quarterly Journal of Speech, 73,2, pp. 219-231, 198714. Elizabeth Bell, 'Performance Studies as Women's Work: Historical Sights/Sites/Citations from the Margin', Text and Performance Quarterly, 13,4, pp. 350-374, 1993Part II: Elements and Circumstances of Performance15. Richard Schechner, 'Performers and Spectators Transported and Transformed', The Kenyon Review,New Series, 3,4, pp. 83-113, 198116. Freddie Rokem,'Theatrical and Transgressive Energies', Assaph, 15, pp. 19-38, 199917. Michael Kirby, 'On Acting and Not-Acting', The Drama Review, 16,1, pp. 3-15, 197218. John O. Thompson, 'Screen Acting and the Commutation Test', Screen, 19,2, pp. 55-69, 197819. Peter Middleton, 'Poetry's Oral Stage', in Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell, eds., Performance and Authenticity in the Arts, pp. 215-253, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 199920. Stan Godlovitch, 'The Integrity of Musical Performance', The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 51,4, pp. 573-587, 1993Volume IIPart I: Representation21. Jacques Derrida, 'The Theater of Cruelty and the Closure of Representation', in Writing and Difference, Alan Bass, trans., pp. 232-250 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978)22. Jean-Fran?ºois Lyotard, 'The Tooth, the Palm,' Anne Knap and Michel Benamou, trans., SubStance, 15, pp. 105-110, 197623. Barbara Freedman 'Frame-Up: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Theatre', Theatre Journal, 40, 3, pp. 375-397, 198824. Jill Dolan, 'The Dynamics of Desire: Sexuality and Gender in Pornography and Performance', Theatre Journal, 39,2, pp. 156-174, 1987Part II: Textuality25. Marvin Carlson, 'Theatrical Pe

This collection reflects the growing importance of the concept of performance across a variety of disciplines. It brings together major texts articulating perspectives on performance and performativity.