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Theatre, Theory, Postmodernism.

Contemporary Literature

| June 22, 1994 | Dietrich, Dawn | COPYRIGHT 1994 University of Wisconsin Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

What do the theater, Los Angeles, and a bodybuilder have in common? Although the combination seems unlikely, two new and innovative drama studies construe these and other postmodern "constructions" as part of a theoretical paradigm that relates |textuality' to performative and cultural production. Making short order of the demand for poststructuralist analyses of contemporary drama and performance, Johannes Birringer and W B. Worthen formulate a "second stage" of theater studies by demonstrating that cultural production and representation affect more than technology, shaping aesthetic models and ideologies of the subject as well.

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