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Tables of Contents for Contours of the Theatrical Avant-Garde
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Introduction
1
15
James M. Harding
PART I. Text and Antitext in the Historical Avant-Garde
Text and Violence: Performance Practices of the Modernist Avant-Garde
15
28
Laurence Senelick
Antonin Artaud and the Authority of Text, Spectacle, and Performance
43
15
David Graver
Text/Pre-Text/Pretext: The Language of Avant-Garde Experiment
58
21
Christopher Innes
PART II. Theorizing Antitext and Beyond
The Avant-Garde and the Semiotics of the Antitextual Gesture
79
17
Erika Fischer-Lichte
Which Theories for Which Mise-en-Scenes?
96
14
Patrice Pavis
Fluxus Art-Amusement: The Music of the Future?
110
20
Philip Auslander
``Mais je dis le chaos positif'': Leaky Texts, Parasited Performances, and Maxwellian Academons
130
27
Michael Vanden Heuvel
PART III. Textual Spaces, Theatrical Spaces, and Avant-Garde Performance
Bad Memory: Text, Commodity, Happenings
157
19
Mike Sell
Dissent behind the Barricades: Radical Art, Revolutionary Stages, and Avant-Garde Divisions
176
26
James M. Harding
An Interview with Richard Schechner
202
15
James M. Harding
PART IV. Reflections on the Institutions of the Avant-Garde
Institutionalizing Avant-Garde Performance: A Hidden History of University Patronage in the United States
217
22
Sally Banes
Never Enough Is Something Else: Feminist Performance Art, Avant-Gardes, and Probity
239
52
Kristine Stiles
Index
291