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Victoria Addis deposited ‘Man is the Measure’: The Individual and the Tribe in Modernist Representations of the Primitive in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis article investigates the tensions inherent within the ‘anti-modern’ element of early modernism and its relationship to Victorian and fin de siècle narratives of modernity. Using Sigmund Freud’s Totem and Taboo (1913), this essay examines how the primitive is represented in E.M. Forster’s short story ‘The Machine Stops’ (1909) and Stravinsky/N…[Read more]
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Olalekan Adigun posted an update in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoI posted a piece on my Facebook wall about two emails I sent to two Research Institutes, one in Abuja (Nigeria) and the other in New York (USA). Despite the fact that Lagos (where I live) to Abuja is just about 300 km by road, I haven’t got a response, let alone have any assurance that my mail is being attended to. But, I have since gotten a r…[Read more]
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David Roselli deposited The Work of Tragic Productions: Towards a New History of Drama as Labor Culture in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoPreliminary analysis of the representation of laborers in Greek tragedy and satyr drama.
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David Roselli deposited Social Class in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoDiscussion of class structure in fifth-century Athens, historical constitution of theater audiences, and the changes in the comic representation of class antagonism from Aristophanes to Menander.
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David Roselli deposited The Theater of Euripides in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoDiscussion of the relationship between historical conditions and aesthetic form in Euripidean tragedy.
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Allison Levy deposited Playthings in Early Modernity: Party Games, Word Games, Mind Games in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoWhy do we play games—with and upon each other as well as ourselves? When are winners also losers, and vice-versa? How and to what end do we stretch the spaces of play? What happens when players go ‘out of bounds,’ or when games go ‘too far’? Moreover, what happens when we push the parameters of inquiry: when we play with traditional narrative…[Read more]
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Tom Cornford deposited ‘The Editing of Emma Rice’, Backpages in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoReflections on the significance of the sudden announcement, in autumn 2016, of the imminent departure of Emma Rice as Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe. Contemporary Theatre Review 27.1, Backpages.
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Allison Levy deposited Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love, and Betrayal in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoReview of Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love, and Betrayal by Gabrielle Langdon
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Allison Levy deposited “Imposing Pictures: Widow Portraiture as Memorial Strategy in Early Modern Florence” in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoChapter in Witwenschaft in der frühen Neuzeit: fürstliche und adlige Witwen zwischen Fremd- und Selbstbestimmung
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Allison Levy deposited “Good Grief: Widow Portraiture and Masculine Anxiety in Early Modern England” in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoChapter 8 in The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England: Her Life and Representation
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Allison Levy deposited “Augustine’s Concessions and Other Failures: Mourning and Masculinity in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany” in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoCh 5 of Grief and Gender, 700-1700
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Allison Levy deposited “Cosimo’s Black Widow” in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoChapter 10 in Growing Old in Early Modern Europe: Cultural Representations
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Allison Levy deposited “Effaced: Failing Widows” in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoChapter in Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe: Gender, Agency and Identity
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Allison Levy deposited “Last Rites: Mourning Identities (?)” in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoAfterword of Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
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Allison Levy deposited “Framing Widows: Mourning, Gender, and Portraiture in Early Modern Florence” in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoCh. 13 of Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
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Allison Levy deposited “Widow’s Peek: Looking at Ritual and Representation” in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoIntroduction to Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe
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Joseph Dunne deposited Regenerating the Live: The Archive as the Genesis of a Performance Practice in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoLive performance lacks the durability of art practices such as photography, film and
painting, and so definitions of ‘live’ acts have traditionally been formulated in terms
of ‘transience’ and ‘disappearance’. In this context the archive and archival documents
are often described as the antithesis of performance’s ontology. An archive’s pri…[Read more] -
Allison Levy deposited “Strange Bedfellows,” Introduction to Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy: Practice, Performance, Perversion and Punishment in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoEmphasizing the peculiar, the perverse, the clandestine and the scandalous, this volume opens up a critical discourse on sexuality and visual culture in early modern Italy. Contributors consider not just painted (conventional) representations of sexual activities and eroticized bodies, but also images from print media, drawings, sculpted objects…[Read more]
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Allison Levy deposited Sesso nel Rinascimento in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoQuesto volume propone un discorso critico sulla sessualità e sulla cultura visiva dell’Italia rinascimentale. I saggi raccolti tentano di fare luce su una serie di zone d’ombra, dando spazio a tutte quelle pratiche o preferenze considerate in genere come alternative o anomalie, e a un’ampia varietà di scenari “scandalosi”. Particolare attenzione…[Read more]
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