This book investigates the shifting relationship between performance and subjectivity over the course of the Modern era.Β Each chapter details a different set of performance strategies designed to grant the subject a stable sense of self-identity, and each explores the fallout from the ultimate fail
Representation and Identity from Versailles to the Present: The Performing Subject (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
β Scribed by Alan Sikes
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 227
- Category
- Library
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