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Timothy Scheie - Performance Degree Zero: Roland Barthes and Theatre - 9780802090713 - V9780802090713
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Performance Degree Zero: Roland Barthes and Theatre

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Description for Performance Degree Zero: Roland Barthes and Theatre Hardcover. Performance Degree Zerooffers the first comprehensive account of Barthes's lifelong engagement with theatre and performance and fills a significant gap in Barthes criticism. It is essential reading for all Barthes scholars, theatre historians, and performance theorists. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.

Throughout his career, famed critical theorist Roland Barthes (1915-1980) had a complex and often uneasy relationship with theatre and performance. From his early theatre criticism, through his abrupt and enigmatic silence on theatre, to the theoretical 'stagings' of his thought in the 1970s, Barthes committed several stunning reversals with his opinions on theatrical performance.

In Performance Degree Zero, Timothy Scheie argues that Barthes's body of work must be considered a lifelong engagement with theatre. Exploring his changing critical methodologies, Scheie provides a new understanding of the rapid shifts in critical modes Barthes traverses, from a Sartrean Marxism in the 1950s, ... Read more

Performance Degree Zerooffers the first comprehensive account of Barthes's lifelong engagement with theatre and performance and fills a significant gap in Barthes criticism. It is essential reading for all Barthes scholars, theatre historians, and performance theorists.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802090713
SKU
V9780802090713
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Ref
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About Timothy Scheie
Timothy Scheie is an associate professor in the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester.

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