Rhetoric in Ruins: Performing literature and performance studies

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Notes

¹ The ‘string quartet reference’ obviously refers to Richard Schechner's manifesto for replacing theatre studies with performance studies (see Schechner 1995).

² See Paul Edwards's discussion of Sheridan and Burgh in ‘Unstoried’ (1999). For a book-length analysis of the Chautauqua movement, see Canning (2005).

³ While other scholars have told this story – Mary Margaret Robb, Mary Strine, Charlotte Lee, Robert Breen, Wallace Bacon, Beverly Whitaker Long, Mary Frances Hopkins, Linda Park-Fuller, Nathan Stuckey, Ron Pelias, Della Pollock, Sheron Dailey – Paul Edwards has done some of the most thorough recent remembering. Even more recently, Soyini Madison's and Judith Hamera's new edited collection, The SAGE Handbook of Performance Studies (2006), represents a wider, longer and more varied history of performance studies in the United States, including a section on Performance and Literature and on Performance and Pedagogy, umbrellas that allow the rhetorical PS genealogy a more secure footing in the histories of the field.

⁴ A publication from that dissertation is his essay ‘Literacy and Oral Performance in Anglo-Saxon England: Conflict and Confluence of Traditions’ (1983).

⁵ E. Patrick Johnson is working on a collection of Dwight Conquergood's many essay publications that will contribute significantly to the documentation of this important intellectual history.