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approaches. a literary approach – reading into the work (author, genre, style, character, motivation plot …) anthropology and cultural location historical and social context intellectual context (eg philosophy, conceptions of what it is to be human …)
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approaches • a literary approach – reading into the work (author, genre, style, character, motivation plot …) • anthropology and cultural location • historical and social context • intellectual context (eg philosophy, conceptions of what it is to be human …) • archaeology and a sensitivity to materiality • a comparative perspective – • not (necessarily) the assertion of identity • but frictions generating insight • and one that uses the work as a resource in exploring the cultural imaginary- where does the work take us?
the performance of everyday life • the metaphor of performance
performance – some concepts • staging and mis-en-scène • props and costume • gesture • posture • habitus – habit, custom, acquired abilities and faculties • techniques of the body • proxemics • scale • reach • haptics
the performing body • what is its location, its place? • – a designed and dynamic ‘staging’, saturated with significances • – a continuity through architecture, environment, material goods and physical bodies
performativity and identity • the way you say something and the act of saying may mean as much as what is said • identity (for example gender) is not something inherent or intrinsic to a person • identity is what emerges from reiterated action • with action conceived as the performance of selfhood • a notion of performativity and gender associated with Judith Butler