EAN: 9783039101504

PERFORMANCE AND PERFORMATIVITY IN GERMAN CULTUR...

This volume assembles the select proceedings of an international conference held at the
University of Cambridge in March 2002. The conference took its cue from the 'performative turn'
which has put issues of performance and performativity at the centre of current academic debate
in the humanities. The volume aims to show the ways in which German Studies have been turning
towards questions of the performative in recent years. On the one hand  this involves an
increased interest in the performing arts in the scholarship and teaching of German Studies and
a growing understanding of the literary text too  as a performed process as much as a finished
object  on the other  an incorporation of theories of performativity  not least in the area of
gender and sexuality. The essays cover a range of performance media (theatre  film  performance
art  photography) as well as the representation of turns or acts of performance in literary
texts from Goethe to key contemporary writers. Together  they indicate exciting new ways
forward for German Cultural Studies.

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