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  • The Routledge Companion to Performance-Related Concepts in Non-European Languages

    Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Astrid Schenka ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Investigating more than 70 key concepts relating to the performing arts in more than six non-European languages, this volume provides a groundbreaking research tool and one-of-a-kind reference source for theatre, performance and dance studies worldwide.The Companion features in-depth explorations of and expert introductions to a select number of performance-related key concepts in Arabic, Chinese, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language

    Politics, Translations, Embodiments

    Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Saskya Iris Jain ...
    Theatrical Speech Acts: Performing Language explores the significance and impact of words in performance, probing how language functions in theatrical scenarios, what it can achieve under particular conditions, and what kinds of problems may arise as a result.Presenting case studies from around the globe—spanning Argentina, Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Korea, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Thailand, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Volume II

    Interweaving Epistemologies

    Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Milos Kosic, Astrid Schenka ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This volume investigates performance cultures as rich and dynamic environments of knowledge practice through which distinctive epistemologies are continuously (re)generated, cultivated and celebrated. Epistemologies are dynamic formations of rules, tools and procedures not only for understanding but also for doing knowledges.This volume deals in particular with epistemological challenges posed by ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Volume I

    (Re)Generating Knowledges in Performance

    Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Milos Kosic, Astrid Schenka ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This volume investigates performances as situated "machineries of knowing" (Karin Knorr Cetina), exploring them as relational processes for, in and with which performers as well as spectators actively (re)generate diverse practices of knowing, knowledges and epistemologies.Performance cultures are distinct but interconnected environments of knowledge practice. Their characteristic features depend ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures

    Beyond Postcolonialism

    Edited by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Torsten Jost, Saskya Iris Jain ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange. The authors offer a provocative argument for rethinking the scholarly assessment of how diverse performative cultures interact, how they are interwoven, and how they are dependent upon each other.While the term ‘intercultural theatre’ as a concept ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    Towards a Sociology and Anthropology from Art

    by John Clammer ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    The sociology of art is now an established sub-discipline of sociology. But little work has been done to explore the implications not of society on art, but of art on the nature and principles of sociology itself.Vision and Society explores the ways in which art (here mainly understood as visual art) structures in fundamental ways the constitution of society, the relations between societies and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Gender, Religion, and Modern Hindi Drama

    by Diana Dimitrova ...
    Diana Dimitrova studies the representation of gender and religion in Hindi drama from its beginnings in the second half of the nineteenth century until the 1960s - the period when urban proscenium Hindi theatre, which originated under Western influence, matured and thrived. Her focus is on how different religious and mythological models pertaining to women have been reworked in Hindi drama and ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Theatre and the World

    Performance and the Politics of Culture

    by Rustom Bharucha ...
    In this passionate and controversial work, director and critic Rustom Bharucha presents the first major critique of intercultural theatre from a 'Third World' perspective.Bharucha questions the assumptions underlying the theatrical visions of some of the twentieth century's most prominent theatre practitioners and theorists, including Antonin Artaud, Jerzsy Grotowski, and Peter Brook. He contends ... Read more

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  • Unsettling Translation

    Studies in Honour of Theo Hermans

    Edited by Mona Baker ...
    This collection engages with translation and interpreting from a diverse but complementary range of perspectives, in dialogue with the seminal work of Theo Hermans. A foundational figure in the field, Hermans’s scholarly engagement with translation spans several key areas, including history of translation, metaphor, norms, ethics, ideology, methodology, and the critical reconceptualization of the ... Read more

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  • Trends in Contemporary Assamese Theatre

    by Namrata Pathak ...
    It is the very nature of representation to be theatrical and self-referential. This book undercuts the fact that all representational knowledge is autonomous and sovereign. At times, theatrical representations can misguide and mislead. Representation can also ineluctably project ones own preferences and preoccupations. Thus, representation and subjective interpretation divulge into myriad domains. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • concepts

    a travelogue

    Edited by Professor Bernd Herzogenrath ...
    Series series Thinking Media
    This book foregrounds that English monolingualism reduces both our linguistic and conceptual resources, presenting concepts from the cultures of 4 continents and 26 languages.Concepts seem to work best when created in the interspace between theory and praxis, and between philosophy, art, and science. Deleuze himself had generated many concepts in this encounter between philosophy and non ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Identity

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Florian Coulmas ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and identity crises have become almost equally pervasive. Yet 'identity' is extremely versatile, meaning different things to different people and in different scientific disciplines. To many its meaning seems self-evident, since its various uses share common ... Read more

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