7.0485 As: Jrnl of Performance Studies; Book Excerpt (2/158)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 14 Feb 1994 22:41:17 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0485. Monday, 14 Feb 1994.
(1) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 14:12:56 -0500 (EST) (112 lines)
From: RUEDNBRG@NYUACF.BITNET
Subject: announcing - TDR: the journal of performance studies
(2) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 12:36 (46 lines)
From: DB.PRESSBKS@press.uchicago.edu (DB)
Subject: New Book Excerpt Available
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 14:12:56 -0500 (EST)
From: RUEDNBRG@NYUACF.BITNET
Subject: announcing - TDR: the journal of performance studies
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The Journal of Performance Studies T140 (Winter 1993)
TDR is a journal that explores the diverse world of performance.
How does this relate to you? It emphasizes the intercultural, inter-
disciplinary and spans numerous geographical areas and historical
periods. TDR addresses performance issues of every kind: theatre,
dance, entertainment, media, sports, politics, aesthetics of everyday
life, games, play, and ritual. TDR is for people in the performing
arts, the social sciences, academics, activists and theorists--anyone
interested thinking about the "performance" paradigm. The journal, is
edited by Richard Schechner of the Department of Performance Studies,
New York University, and is published quarterly by MIT Press.
Now, TDR has joined the Internet community!
The TDR_FORUM: on the discussion list Perform-L, you can participate in a
forum that will focus on the latest issue, with both contributing authors
and fellow readers. See instructions below.
You can browse through sample articles on the Electronic Newsstand. You
subscribe through MIT or the Electronic Newsstand. See directions below.
Check out our table of contents:
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// In this issue (T140 - Winter 1993) \\
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- Towards the 21st Century - a TDR Comment by Richard Schechner (editor)
- Performing the Texts of Virtual Reality and Interactive Fiction -
by J. Yellowlees Douglas
- Magister Macintosh: Shuffled Notes on Hypertext Writing - by Richard Gess
- The Word Becomes You: interview with Anna Deavere Smith - by Carol Martin
- Anna Deavere Smith: Acting as Incorporation - by Richard Schechner
- Shapiro and Shaliko: Techniques of Testimony - by Richard Kramer
- Shaliko in Pictures, Shapiro in Words - by Leonardo Shapiro
- Leaving Town Up and Down - by Leonardo Shapiro
- Babilonia in Buenos Aires: An Interview with Javier Grosman - by
Elzbieta Szoka
- Operation Mallfinger: Invisible Theatre in a Popular Context - by
Jonathan M. Gray
- Casting the Audience - By Natalie Crohn Schmitt
- Happenings in Europe in the '60s - by Gunter Berghaus
- Book review essays by Richard Trousdell, Edith Turner, and David J. DeRose
Each TDR issue is provocative in content, with photographs, artwork, and
scripts illustrating every article. The journal, founded in 1955, is
7 x 10, and 184 pages per issue.
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// Join our electronic TDR_Forum on Perform-L \\
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We invite you to join us in a discussion of the latest issue of TDR,
featuring an article by Richard Gess - "Magister Macintosh: Shuffled
Notes on Hypertext Writing."
To subscribe to perform-l:
send e-mail to: mailserv@acfcluster.nyu.edu
leave the subject
put only one line in the letter: sub perform-l yourrealname
To get Gess's article via anonymous ftp:
ftp acfcluster.nyu.edu
cd perform
get tdrgess.txt
quit
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send email to: mailserv@acfcluster.nyu.edu
leave subject blank
put only one line in the letter: send [anonymous.perform]tdrgess.txt
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// Come browse and subscribe \\
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1. The Electronic Newsstand
You can browse through an article from our latest issue and obtain
subscription information on the Electronic Newsstand. On Gopher,
go to: massachusetts/MIT/Interesting Sites to Explore/Electronic
To subscribe to TDR through the Electronic Newsstand, send your name
and address to: the_drama_review@enews.com. Or call: 1-800-40-ENEWS.
2. MIT Press Online
You can explore the MIT Press Online Catalogue and obtain subscription
information: telnet techinfo.mit.edu. Choose: Around MIT/MIT press/
journals/arts/. Through Gopher go to: USA?massachusetts/MIT.
To subscribe to TDR send e-mail to: journals-orders@mit.edu
MIT Press Journals, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1399 USA
Tel: (617) 253-2889 Fax: (617) 258-6779
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 94 12:36
From: DB.PRESSBKS@press.uchicago.edu (DB)
Subject: New Book Excerpt Available
To: *LANHAM
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The University of Chicago Press is making available on the
Internet an excerpt from _The Electronic Word_ by Richard
Lanham. In _The Electronic Word_ Lanham, a professor of English
at UCLA, surveys the effects of electronic text on arts and
letters, on the academy, and on the future of democratic
education. The excerpt includes the book's fourth chapter:
"Extraordinary Convergence: Democracy, Technology, Theory, and
the University Curriculum". The excerpt may be retrieved via
gopher, anonymous FTP, or e-mail. The ASCII text file is about 65K.
View and/or retrieve via gopher:
Gopher to: press-gopher.uchicago.edu (port 70) and choose the
menu item "New Books from Chicago"
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