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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Object Lessons
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Archival Digs
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Materialist Semiotics
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Reviews
'This valuable collection approaches performance through a focus on objects, and objects through a focus on performance. Across a variety of engaging essays, the book makes evident the range of new materialisms taking shape in and as performance studies as well as the contribution performance studies can make to the new materialist criticism.' - Rebecca Schneider, Brown University, USA
'Performing Objects and Theatrical Things is a stimulating, multifaceted intercisciplinary exploration of the theatrical and performance life of everyday objects in light of recent new materialist, actor network, 'thing' and other theories, held together by the conviction, as the editors say, that matter matters. It will be essential reading for students of theatre and performance for years to come.' - Ric Knowles, Editor, Theatre Journal
'This timely book offers multiple perspectives on the intersection between performance and materiality. With precision and daring, the essays analyze objects onstage, in archives, and in everyday life, as well as the material textures of performance itself. Marlis Schweitzer and Joanne Zerdy's masterful Introduction provides an ideal overview of the theoretical terrain, thus making the anthology accessible to those new to the field. This is a lively, useful, deeply interesting book.' Robin Bernstein, author of Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights
Editors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Performing Objects and Theatrical Things
Editors: Marlis Schweitzer, Joanne Zerdy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137402455
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Theatre & Performance Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-40244-8Published: 05 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-48670-0Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-40245-5Published: 14 August 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 264
Topics: Theatre History, Performing Arts, Arts, Theatre and Performance Studies