Theory for Performance Studies: A Student's Guide is a clear and concise handbook to the key connections between performance studies and critical theory since the 1960s. Philip Auslander looks at the way the concept of performance has been engaged across a number of disciplines.
Beginning with four foundational figures – Freud, Marz, Nietzsche and Saussure – Auslander goes on to provide guided introductions to the major theoretical thinkers of the past century, from Althusser to Zizek. Each entry offers biographical, theoretical, and bibliographical information along with a discussion of each figure's relevance to theatre and performance studies and suggestions for future research.
Brisk, thoughtful, and engaging, this is an essential first volume for anyone at work in theatre and performance studies today.
Adapted from Theory for Religious Studies, by William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal.
- ISBN10 0415974526
- ISBN13 9780415974523
- Publish Date 26 July 2007 (first published 16 July 2007)
- Publish Status Withdrawn
- Out of Print 8 January 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English