Julia A. Walker

Performance and Modernity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that ideas first take shape in the human body, appearing on stage in new styles of performance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 457g
• ISBN-13: 9781108964333
• ISBN-10: 1108964338
• Artikelnr.: 70602385

Autorenporträt

Julia A. Walker is Associate Professor of English and Drama, with joint appointments in the English and Performing Arts Departments at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre: Bodies, Voice, Words (Cambridge University Press, 2005), along with numerous published essays.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Money: Transacting Value on the Romantic Stage; 2. The Railroad: The
Throughline to Modern Consciousness on the Naturalist Stage; 3. The
Nation-State: Eurhythmics and the Bohemian Model of Affiliation; 4.
Advertising: Avant-Garde Provocations and the Commercialization of
Aesthetic Taste; 5. Air Conditioning: Psychological Realism and the
Circulation of 'Cool'.