Writing Performance: Poeticizing the Researcher's Body

by Ronald J. Pelias and Professor Ronald J. Pelias

Book Overview

Ronald J. Pelias is concerned with writing about performance, from the everyday performative routines to the texts on stage. He seeks to write performatively, to offer poetic or aesthetic renderings of performance events in order to capture some sense of their nature. In his quest for the spirit of theatrical performances, Pelias asks more of the written word than the word can deliver. Yet the attempt is both desirable--and necessary. To discuss...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809322358
• ISBN13: 9780809322350
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"