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"At the time when the prefix 'post ' begins to lose its singularity and radical sharpness, Sikes's study reminds us that we have much to gain by exploring the tension between past and present imaginations. His critical imaginary travels through an insightful analysis of the relationship between social status and performance (conduct manuals from the time of Louis XIV), instability within sexual hierarchies of the Baroque culture, post-revolutionary freedom and new modes of political participation (1789), the culture of visuality in the nineteenth century (Zola and Freud), mediated images (The Truman Show), and same-sex marriage (2007, USA). What is significant in the study of these historical fragments is Sikes's commitment to exploring performative articulations and re-articulations, which view the horizon of the intelligible not as limit of a historiographic project, but as a dynamic site where the radical performative possibilities can exist. By so doing, this study may effect how we write about theatre/performance history." - Michal Kobialka, Professor of Theatre, University of Minnesota
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Book Title: Representation and Identity from Versailles to the Present
Book Subtitle: The Performing Subject
Authors: Alan Sikes
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230605619
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7784-7Published: 25 September 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53782-2Published: 25 September 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-60561-9Published: 06 August 2007
Series ISSN: 2947-5767
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5775
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 214
Topics: Geology, Theatre History, History of France, Historiography and Method, Performing Arts, Theatre and Performance Studies