Performances

by Greg Dening

Book Overview

With elegance and candor, Greg Dening offers a panoramic collection of rich and densely textured essays that demonstrate how we can only understand our present through our consciousness of the past and how in thinking about the past we mirror the time and place of our own living.

For Dening, history saturates every moment of our cultural and personal existence. Yet he is keenly aware that the actual past remains fundamentally irreplicable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226142981
• ISBN13: 9780226142982
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"