Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Deirdre Heddon
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.445kg
ISBN:  

9780230537538

ISBN 10:   0230537537
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   19 November 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
We will order this item for you from a manufatured on demand supplier.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations General Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: POLITICS (OF SELF): THE SUBJECT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY Beginnings: Autobiographical Performance Tensions: Experience and Its Representation In-Between: Experience and Its Representation The Autobiography of Community PART II: HISTORY: TESTIMONIAL TIMES Psychoanalysis and Trauma Performing Testimonial History PART III: PLACE: THE PLACE OF SELF Autotopography: Autobiography and Place The Art of Walking The Politics of Place PART IV: ETHICS: THE STORY OF THE OTHER Self-Other Verbatim Theatre Performance Rights PART V: CONCLUSION: These Confessional Times The Appropriate(d) Personal The Difference of Context References Bibliography.

Reviews

'Heddon's book, covering, as it does, such an immense variety of practices, examined through a well focussed theoretical lens, is one which should be recommended to students and researchers alike - it will become a first point of reference for anyone working in the field.' Maggie B. Gale, University of Manchester, Studies in Theatre and Performance 29.3 'Heddon's book is a much-needed sustained discussion of the subject [auto-biography and performance]...[it has] a direct, honest, lively and engaging style of writing which invites and stimulates dialogue and debate.' Nicola Shaughnessy, University of Kent Theatre Research International 34.2 2009 'engaged, engaging and fully embodied.' Jennie Klein, Contemporary Theatre Review, 19. 'Heddon provides a nuanced exposition of contemporary critical concerns that are central to many university courses and her ability to match those concerns to the study and practice of autobiographical performance will make this book a challenging resource for students and teachers working in a number of areas in the higher education sector.' - Auto/Biography Studies

'Heddon's book is a much-needed sustained discussion of the subject [auto-biography and performance]...[it has] a direct, honest, lively and engaging style of writing which invites and stimulates dialogue and debate.' Nicola Shaughnessy, University of Kent Theatre Research International 34.2 2009 'engaged, engaging and fully embodied.' Jennie Klein, Contemporary Theatre Review, 19.

Author Information

DEIRDRE HEDDON is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is the author, with Jane Milling, of Devising Performance: A Critical History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and her work on the use of autobiographical material in performance has been published in various journals and edited collections.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions