Comparative Modernist Performance Studies: A Not-So-Modest Proposal

What is it about?

Exploring recent scholarship at the intersection of Theatre and Performance Studies, Comparative Studies, and Modernist Studies, this essay proposes a comparative and historicist model for considering the development of modernism around the globe. Because modernism is both thematically and formally about the experience and conceptualization of change, it proposes performance as a way of mapping heuristics of knowledge and forms of representation _as_ processes of change.

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Why is it important?

Invites scholars in all three fields to engage with each others' works, outlining a theoretical model of modernism as a baseline for others to build on or modify.