The Problems of Viewing Performance: Epistemology and Other Minds

by Michael Y Bennett and Michael Y. Bennett

Book Overview

The Problems of Viewing Performance challenges long-held assumptions by considering the ways in which knowledge is received by more than a single audience member, and breaks new ground by, counterintuitively, claiming that viewing performance is not a shared experience.

Given that viewers come to each performance with differing amounts and types of knowledge, they each make different assumptions as to how the performance will unfold. Often modified...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367725827
• ISBN13: 9780367725822
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"