Some Helpful (?) Texts for the
Postmodern Performer
Andrucki, Martin. "'Ah, the Old Questions, the Old Answers': Postmodernism and Poetic Justice in the Plays of Charles Ludlam." Text and Performance Quarterly. 10 (1990): 294-305.
Browing, Larry D. and Leonard C. Hawes. "Style, Process, Surface, Context: Consulting as Postmodern Art." Journal of Applied Communication Research. 19 (1991): 32-54.
Halstead, Jack. "Peter Handke's Sprechstucke and Speech-Act Theory." Text and Performance Quarterly. 10 (1990): 183-193.
Hamera, Judith. "Postmodern Performance, Postmodern Criticism." Literature in Performance. 7 (1986): 13-20.
Hariman, Robert. "Critical Rhetoric and Postmodern Theory." Quarterly Journal of Speech. 77 (1991): 67-70.
Jencks, Charles. What is Post-Modernism? 3rd ed. New York: St. Martin's, 1986.
Josephson, Susan G. From Idolatry to Advertising: Visual Art and Contemporary Culture. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.
Lipucci, Alessandra. "Social Theorizing on the Operatic Stage: Jean Pierre Ponnelle's Postmodern Humanist Production of Verdi's La Traviata." Text and Performance Quarterly. 12 (1992): 245-273.
McCorkle, James. The Still Performance: Writing Self and Interconnection in Five Postmodern American Poets. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1989.
MacDonald, Erik. Theater at the Margins: Text and the Post-Structured Stage. Ann Arbor, Michigan: U of Michigan P, 1993.
Owens, Craig. "The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism." in The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. Ed. Hal Foster. Port Townsend, Washington: Bay Press, 1983. 57-58.
Schechner, Richard. "The End of Humanism." Performing Arts Journal. 4 (1970): 9.
Schwichtenberg, Cathy. "Madonna's Postmodern Feminism: Bringing the Margins to the Center." Southern Communication Journal. 57 (1992): 120-131.
Simone, Maria. "Sweet Painted Lady." National Communication Association Convention. Chicago Hilton, Chicago. 20 November 1997.
Suleiman, Susan Rubin. Subversive Intent: Gender, Politics, and the Avant-Garde. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard UP, 1990.
Vanden Heuvel, Michael. Performing Drama/Dramatizing Performance: Alternative Theater and the Dramatic Text. Ann Arbor, Michigan: U of Michigan P, 1991.
Wolford, Lisa. "Oppositional Performance/Critical Pedagogy: A Report from the Penn State Symposium." Theatre Topics 7.2 (1997): 187-203.