Edges of Loss: From Modern Drama to Postmodern Theory

by Mark Pizzato

One of the curious characteristics of much postmodern theory is the attention it has paid to theater, an art form seemingly more in danger of extinction today than perhaps ever in its history. Mark Pizzato interrogates this curiosity, revealing it as an obsession with the destruction of social institutions and the "universal truths" of modernism. Edges of Loss explores the theatrics of loss in the minds of authors, performers, spectators, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472109146
• ISBN13: 9780472109142
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"