Comparative Criticism: Volume 14, Knowledge and Performance

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E. S. Shaffer
Cambridge University Press, Oct 22, 1992 - Drama - 308 pages
Performance models have received increasing attention in the theoretical move towards open texts. Conceptions of open, reader-based or audience-based texts have paralleled the questioning of rational, authority-driven modes of knowledge. Literary theory's stress on performance leads back, paradoxically, to the exploration of practical knowledge. This volume contains the annual bibliography of comparative literature for the year 1989. It contains numerous intriguing articles. Michael Robinson's leading article examines the mutually defining properties of (female) gender and performance in the nineteenth century, whilst Drew Milne examines the challenge to Aristotle's theory of tragedy made by Augusto Boal's 'Theatre of the Oppressed' in Latin America. A rich variety of performance media and genres is presented in this volume. The important Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov is being performed again in new productions in Russia; Lesley Milne reports on The White Guard in Moscow and Kiev, and Patrick Miles translates the previously censored scenes of the play.

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Contents

the performing self and
3
Brecht and Eisenstein
25
J P STERN The uses of Wittgensteins philosophy in the study
53
Wittgenstein and
71
HENRIETTE HERWIG On open and closed doors or how dead
87
Augusto Boals
111
Some Sort of Epic interpretation
137
A short story
147
an episode from a novel
183
HANNAH VINCENT The Burrow An adaptation for the stage
191
on Thomas Docherty
217
HANNE CASTEIN On Hoffmanns Musical Writings
227
productions
233
With three scenes from The White Guard
247
Books and periodicals received
259
Bibliography of Comparative Literature in Britain and Ireland
267

A play for radio
155

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