JDTC Announces 26.1 with Special Section on Affect

[Erin Hurley, Prof.]

The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism is pleased to announce the publication of Volume 26 Number 1

In this issue:

“Affect/Performance/Politics”
A Special Section Edited and with an Introduction by Erin Hurley and Sara Warner

including

“Affect in Deleuze, Hijikata, and Coates: The Politics of Becoming-Animal in Performance”
By Laura Cull

“Feeling Women’s Culture: Women’s Music, Lesbian Feminism, and the Impact of Emotional Memory”
By Jill Dolan

“Behaviorism, Catharsis, and the History of Emotion”
By R. Darren Gobert

“‘May she read liberty in your eyes?’ Beecher, Boucicault and the Representation and Display of Antebellum Women’s Racially Indeterminate Bodies”
By Lisa Merrill

“Performance and the Pace of Empathy”
By John Muse

“‘Structures of Feeling’ as Methodology and the Re-emergence of Holocaust Survivor Testimony in 1960s Czechoslovakia”
By Lisa Peschel

“Feeling Scottish: Affect, Mimicry, and Vaudeville’s “Inimitable” Harry Lauder”
By Marlis Schweitzer and Daniel Guadagnolo

Also in this issue:

“‘A’ is for Abject: The Red Letter Plays of Suzan-Lori Parks”
By Cheryl Black

“The End of Room-Space: Domesticity and the Absent Audience in Wallace Shawn’s The Fever”
By Jeanmarie Higgins

“Abject Afrikaners and Iconoclast Trekkers: Peter Van Heerden and the Laagers of White Masculinity”
By Megan Lewis

“The Market for Argument: Preaching the Puritan Counterpublic at Paul’s Cross”
By Simon Du Toit

And Book Reviews by
Sara Brady (Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment),
Penelope Walrath Cole (Theatre of Crisis: The Performance of Power in the Kingdom of Ireland, 1662-1692),
Sara Freeman (British Asian Theatre: Dramaturgy, Process and Performance),
Helen Deborah Lewis (Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare),
Deirdre O’Leary (The Provocation of the Senses in Contemporary Theatre),
Jennifer Parker-Starbuck (So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance),
Felicia J. Ruff (Modernism after Wagner), Robert B. Shimko (French Origins of English Tragedy),
Tyler A. Smith (Philosophers & Thespians: Thinking Performance),
James Symons (Representing the Past: Essays in Performance Historiography),
Dan Venning (Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure: Forced Entertainment, Goat Island, Elevator Repair Service), and
Christine Woodworth (Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics)

26.2 available this summer on Project Muse.

For ordering information, visit our website http://jdtc.ku.edu, or contact Danny Devlin, subscriptions assistant jdtcsubs at ku.edu

See our Call for Papers at http://www.jdtc.ku.edu/~jdtc/mansubmissions.shtml

Manuscript inquiries may be directed to Scott Knowles, managing editor, at jdtc at ku.edu.

Inquiries regarding book reviews may be directed to Elizabeth Osborne, JDTC book review editor, bosborne at fsu.edu

Authors and presses may send review copies of books to: Elizabeth Osborne, JDTC Book Review Editor, 239 FAB/School of Theatre, 530 W. Call St., Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1160.


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Scott Magelssen
Associate Professor, Bowling Green State University Dept. of Theatre and Film
Editor, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
President, Mid-America Theatre Conference
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