Rethinking Roland Barthes Through Performance - A Desire for Neutral Dramaturgy

Through a series of reflections from internationally renowned performance-makers and contextualising essays from leading theatre and performance scholars, this is the first book to map the influence of Roland Barthes on performance. The contributions are framed through Barthes''s notion of The Neutral - the suspension of binary choice that offers a welcome antidote to the political deadlock of our present moment. They cover the breadth of Barthes''s work from (1957) to ''The Death of the Author'' (1967), A Lover''s Discourse (1977), Camera Lucida (1980), to the more recently available lecture courses at the College de France. Together, they capture and rethink a range of Barthes''s preoccupations, from his early writing on myths and meaning to personal reflections on love, loss and desire, and interrogate the intersections between Barthes''s work and contemporary theatre and performance. This book invites readers to approach Barthes''s writing from a breadth of creative-critical perspectives, to become more aware of the importance of his late thought for thinking through a range of dramaturgical forms, and to become more familiar with the work of internationally significant performance practitioners.>

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• Authors: Will Daddario, Harry Robert Wilson
• Assisted by: Maaike Bleeker (Editor), Will Daddario (Editor), Daddario Will (Editor), Adrian Kear (Editor), Joe Kelleher (Editor), Heike Roms (Editor), Harry Robert Wilson (Editor)
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2024
• EAN: 9781350330887
• ISBN: 978-1-350-33088-7
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Thinking Through Theatre
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Philosophy of Language, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Direction & Production, Literary theory, Semiotics / semiology, Acting techniques, Theatre Direction & Production, Theatre direction and production