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REPRESENTING THE PAST
ESSAYS IN PERFORMANCE HISTORIOGRAPHY |
| By: |
Charlotte M. Canning (Editor), Thomas Postlewait (Editor), Thomas Postlewait |
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Paperback |
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£25.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1587299054 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781587299056 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 September, 2010 |
| Series: |
Studies in Theatre History and Culture |
| Pages: |
452 |
| Synopsis: |
How do historians represent the past? How do theatre historians represent performance events? The fifteen challenging essays in "Representing the Past: Essays in Performance Historiography "focus on the fundamental epistemological conditions and procedures that serve as the foundational ideas that guide all historians in their endeavors. Unified by their investigations into how best to understand and then represent the past, this diverse group of scholars in the field of theatre history and performance studies offers insights into the abiding issues that all historians face in the task of representing human events and actions. Five primary ideas provide the topics as well as the intellectual parameters for this book: archive, time, space, identity, and narrative. Taking these as the conceptual framework for historical research and analysis, the essayists cover an expansive range of case studies and problems in the historical study of performance from the Americas to Africa and from Europe to India and China. Considering not only how historians think" about" these concepts in their research and writing but more pointedly and historiographically how they think" with" them, the essayists demonstrate the power and centrality of each of these five ideas in historical scholarship from initial research to the writing of essays and books. Performance history has a diversity of identities, locations, sources, and narratives. This compelling engagement with the concepts essential to historical understanding is a valuable contribution to the historiography of performance for students, teachers, and the future of the discipline itself. Expanding upon its classic predecessor, "Interpreting the Theatrical Past: Essays in the Historiography of Performance," this exciting new collection illustrates the contemporary richness of historical thinking and writing in the field of performance history. |
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14 photos, 5 drawings |
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US |
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University of Iowa Press |
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