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TDR/The Drama Review ◽

10.1017/s1054204321000241 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 65 (2) ◽

pp. 197-198

Author(s):

Amy Yourd

Keyword(s):

American South ◽

University Of Michigan ◽

Avant Garde ◽

Ann Arbor ◽

The American South ◽

And Performance ◽

Pragmatist Philosophy

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The Ghosts of the Avant-Garde(s): Exorcising Experimental Theater and Performance. By James M. Harding. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013; 234 pp. $60.00 cloth, $32.50 paper

TDR/The Drama Review ◽

10.1162/dram_r_00440 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 59 (1) ◽

pp. 187-188

Author(s):

Kate Bredeson

Keyword(s):

University Of Michigan ◽

Experimental Theater ◽

Avant Garde ◽

Ann Arbor ◽

And Performance

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Preaching to Convert: Evangelical Outreach and Performance Activism in a Secular Age. By John Fletcher. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2013; pp. x + 399, 4 illustrations. $70 cloth, $60 e-book. - Sensational Devotion: Evangelical Performance in Twenty-First-Century America. By Jill Stevenson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2013; pp. viii + 317, 18 illustrations. $60 cloth, $50 e-book.

Theatre Survey ◽

10.1017/s004055741500040x ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 56 (3) ◽

pp. 443-446

Author(s):

Deborah A. Dougherty

Keyword(s):

First Century ◽

John Fletcher ◽

University Of Michigan ◽

Ann Arbor ◽

Secular Age ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

And Performance ◽

Performance Activism

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Cutting Performances: Collage Events, Feminist Artists, and the American Avant-Garde. By James M. Harding. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010; 244 pp. $60.00 cloth, $32.50 paper, e-book available. Artaud and His Doubles. By Kimberly Jannarone. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010; 272 pp. $55.00 cloth, $30.00 paper, e-book available

TDR/The Drama Review ◽

10.1162/dram_r_00222 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 56 (4) ◽

pp. 178-180

Author(s):

Mike Sell

Keyword(s):

University Of Michigan ◽

Avant Garde ◽

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Staging Consciousness: Theater and the Materialization of Mind. By William W. Demastes. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002; pp. 193. $47.50 cloth.

Theatre Survey ◽

10.1017/s0040557404280267 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 294-296

Author(s):

Mark Pizzato

Keyword(s):

Fuzzy Logic ◽

Cognitive Science ◽

Complexity Theory ◽

University Of Michigan ◽

Art Form ◽

Ann Arbor ◽

Life Itself ◽

And Performance

William W. Demastes's new book is a rare find. It shows a new direction for interdisciplinary theatre scholarship, combining drama and performance with cognitive science, fuzzy logic, and complexity theory. With this challenging combination, Demastes extends the significance of theatre beyond its conventional place in the humanities and proposes specific ties between an ancient art form and recent scientific discoveries. He demonstrates a post-postmodern or “neostructuralist” approach that dares to discuss “the emergent essence of life itself,” through a materialist, yet “nonpositivist” science of the drama. He thus offers a glimpse “of ’universal' consciousness” in theatre's “spiritual something more” (7–9).

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The Aesthetics of Disturbance: Anti-Art in Avant-Garde Drama. By David Graver, Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1995; pp. 253.

Theatre Survey ◽

10.1017/s0040557400001472 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 37 (1) ◽

pp. 123-127

Author(s):

William E. Gruber

Keyword(s):

University Of Michigan ◽

Avant Garde ◽

Ann Arbor ◽

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Preaching to Convert: Evangelical Outreach and Performance Activism in a Secular Age. By John Fletcher. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013; 399 pp. $70.00 cloth; e-book available. Sensational Devotion: Evangelical Performance in Twenty-First Century America. By Jill Stevenson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013; 317 pp. $60.00 cloth.

TDR/The Drama Review ◽

10.1162/dram_r_00510 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 59 (4) ◽

pp. 194-197

Author(s):

Peter Civetta

Keyword(s):

First Century ◽

John Fletcher ◽

University Of Michigan ◽

Ann Arbor ◽

Secular Age ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

And Performance ◽

Performance Activism

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Cutting Performances: Collage Events, Feminist Artists, and the American Avant-Garde. By James M. Harding. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010. Pp. ix + 222. £53.50/$60 Hb.

Theatre Research International ◽

10.1017/s0307883311000095 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 183-184

Author(s):

Michael M. Chemers

Keyword(s):

University Of Michigan ◽

Avant Garde ◽

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Preaching to Convert: Evangelical Outreach and Performance Activism in a Secular Age JohnFletcher. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013.

The Journal of American Culture ◽

10.1111/jacc.12391 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 38 (3) ◽

pp. 308-309

Author(s):

Jeanie C. Crain

Keyword(s):

University Of Michigan ◽

Ann Arbor ◽

Secular Age ◽

And Performance ◽

Performance Activism

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Dark Matter: Invisibility in Drama, Theater, and Performance. By Andrew Sofer. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2013; $75.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.

TDR/The Drama Review ◽

10.1162/dram_r_00506 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 59 (4) ◽

pp. 186-187

Author(s):

Lawrence Manley

Keyword(s):

Dark Matter ◽

University Of Michigan ◽

Ann Arbor ◽

And Performance ◽

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Chinese Theories of Theater and Performance from Confucius to the Present. Edited and translated by Faye Chunfang Fei. Foreword by Richard Schechner. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1999; 213 pp. $44.50 cloth.

TDR/The Drama Review ◽

10.1162/dram.2000.44.1.187 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

pp. 187-192

Author(s):

Claire Conceison

Keyword(s):

University Of Michigan ◽

Ann Arbor ◽

And Performance ◽

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