From: "Tobin Nellhaus" <nellhaus-AT-gis.net>
Subject: BHA: Shameless self-promotion
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 11:02:52 -0400


Now at a magazine or book store about 6000 km from you:

"Social Ontology and (Meta)theatricality: Reflexions on Performance and
Communication in History."  Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 14.2
(Spring 2000): 3-39.

Using the problem of the historical periodicity of play-within-plays and
other forms of theatrical self-reference as a lever to re-examine the nature
of theatrical performance, the author (yrs truly) establishes key homologies
between the ontological levels of society and those of theatrical
performance, plus a structural linkage between the two.  Major changes in
social structures, particularly those of communication, foster fissures and
crises in the concept of agency, which are negotiated (if not "resolved")
through self-referential performances and through new performance
strategies.  This analysis, founded on critical realist theory, ultimately
leads to a social (rather than formal, aesthetic, voyeuristic, or technical)
definition of theatricality which illuminates the relationship between
changes in society and those in theatrical performance.

This abstract, which is first published here, is copyright (c) Tobin
Nellhaus 2000 (nyuk nyuk nyuk, Ruth!), who nevertheless gives everybody
permission (indeed, encouragement) to send it to everyone they know, people
they don't know, and even people they don't want to know.

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Tobin Nellhaus
nellhaus-AT-mail.com
"Faith requires us to be materialists without flinching": C.S. Peirce




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