A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PERFORMANCE THEORY

Required works of African literature for graduate students in the Department of African Languages and Literature as a part of their preparation for writing the Department’s PhD preliminary examinations.

Compiled by Harold Scheub

[This list is designed for students interested in oral and literary performance, with an emphasis on the intersection of the various arts. Some works on this list also appear on the preceding list, "Criticism and Theory."]

1. Arnheim, Rudolf. Art and Visual Perception (N70 A68).

2. Arnheim, Rudolf. Toward a Psychology of Art 1972 (N70 A7 1972).

3. Arnheim, Rudolf. Visual Thinking (N70 A693).

4. Auerbach, Erich. Mimesis (PN56 R3 A83 1957).

5. Barthes, Roland. Image, Music, Text (PN37 B29).

6. Barthes, Roland. Mythologies (AC25 B3132 1972b).

7. Battcock, Gregory, and Robert Nickas, eds. The Art of Performance ( NX600 P47 A78 1984).

8. Bauman, Richard. Verbal Art as Performance (P35 B31 1984).

9. Bazin, Andre. What Is Cinema? (PN 1994 B3513).

10. Benjamin, Walter. "The Storyteller." Illuminations 1968 (PN514 B3623).

11. Bermingham, Ann. Landscape and Ideology (ND1354.4 B47 1986).

12. Bernstein, Leonard. The Unanswered Question (MT6 B52 U6).

13. Bettetini, G. The Language and Technique of the Film (P325 A6 no. 28).

14. Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces (BL313 C28 1972).

15. Cassirer, Ernst. Language and Myth (P105 C32 1946).

16. Chatman, Seymour. Story and Discourse 1978 (NX650 N37 C45).

17. Chipp, Herschel B. Theories of Modern Art (N6450 C62).

18. Clifton, Thomas. Music as Heard: A Study in Applied Phenomenology (ML4877 V6 1983).

19. Cooke, Deryck. The Language of Music (ML3800 C75).

20. Croce, Arlene. Afterimages (GV1624.5 N4 C76 1979).

21. Davis, Stuart. Stuart Davis. Ed. Diane Kelder (ND237 D333 K4).

22. Donington, Robert. Opera and Its Symbols (ML1700 D665 1990).

23. Eco, Umberto. A Theory of Semiotics (P99 E3).

24. Eisenstein, Sergei. Film Form (PN1995 E48).

25. Eisenstein, Sergei. The Film Sense (PN1995 E52 1942).

26. Elam, Keir. The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama (PN1631 E4).

27. Feldman, Edmund Burke. Varieties of Visual Experience 1992 (N71 F42 1992b)

28. Fine, Elizabeth C. The Folklore Text, from Performance to Print (GR40 F47 1984).

29. Fiske, John, and John Hartley. Reading Television (PN1992.55 F5).

30. Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel (PN3353 F6 1927a).

31. Freedberg, David. The Power of Images (N71 F65 1989).

32. Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism (PN81 F7514).

33. Gass, William H. Fiction and the Figures of Life (PN3353 G36 1970).

34. Gass, William H. The World within the Word PN511 G34 1978).

35. Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures (GN315 G36).

36. Genette, Gerard. Narrative Discourse, An Essay in Method (PQ 2631 R63 A791713).

37. Gombrich, E. H. Art and Illusion (N70 G615 1968).

38. Gombrich, E. H. The Sense of Order (NK1520 G65 1984).

39. Goody, Jack. The Domestication of the Savage Mind (GN451 G66).

40. Goody, Jack, and Ian Watt. "The Consequences of Literacy." In: Jack Goody, ed. Literacy in Traditional Societies (LC149 G6).

41. Hanna, Judith Lynne. The Performer-Audience Connection (GV1588.6 .H36 1983).

42. Hanna, Judith Lynne. To Dance Is Human (GV1603 H36).

43. Hartman, Geoffrey. Criticism in the Wilderness: The Study of Literature Today (PN94 H34).

44. Hauser, Arnold. The Social History of Art (N72 H353 1957).

45. Havelock, Eric. Preface to Plato (B398 P6 H3 1982).

46. Herbert, Robert L., ed. Modern Artists on Art (N6490 H45).

47. Hinde, Robert A., ed. Non-Verbal Communication (BF637 C45 N65).

48. Hymes, Dell. "In Vain I Tried to Tell You": Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics (PM483.5 H9).

49. Iser, Wolfgang. The Act of Reading (PN83 I83).

50. Jakobson, Roman. Language in Literature (PN54 J35 1987).

51. Jakobson, Roman. Verbal Art, Verbal Sign, Verbal Time (P49 J35 1985).

52. Jakobson, Roman, and Morris Halle. "The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles." In: Fundamentals of Language (P221 J3).

53. Kawin, Bruce F. Telling It Again and Again, Repetition in Literature andFilm (PN56 R45 K3 1989).

54. Klee, Paul. Notebooks, Volume 1, The Thinking Eye (ND588 K5 S623).

55. Klee, Paul. Notebooks, Volume 2, The Nature of Nature (ND588 K5 S6413).

56. Kroeber, Karl. Retelling/Rereading, The Fate of Storytelling in Modern Times (NX650 N37 K76 1992).

57. Langer, Susanne K. Feeling and Form (BF458 L29).

58. Langer, Susanne K. Philosophy in a New Key (BF458 L3 1958).

59. Levi-Strauss, Claude. "Four Winnebago Myths." In: Structural Anthropology, Volume 2 (GN315 L453).

60. Levi-strauss, Claude. "The Story of Asdiwal." In: Structural Anthropology, Volume 2 (GN315 L453).

61. Levi-Strauss, Claude. "The Structural Study of Myth." In: Structural Anthropology, Volume 1 (GN315 L453)

62. Lord, Albert B. The Singer of Tales (PN1303 L62 1976).

63. Lotman, Iouri. Semiotics of Cinema (PN1995 L6413).

64. Lotman, Iouri. La structure du texte Artistique 1973 (PN45 L6514).

65. Luthi, Max. The Fairytale as Art Form and Portrait of Man (PN3437 L79813 1984).

66. Luthi, Max. "The Meaning and Form of Fairy Tales" and "The Image of Man in the Fairy Tale." In: Once Upon a Time, On the Nature of Fairy Tales (398 L977o).

67. Maclean, Marie. Narrative as Performance (PQ2191 Z5 M216 1988b).

68. Meisel, Martin. Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial, and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth Century England (PR468 N29 M44 1983).

69. Metz, C. Film Language (PN1995 M4513 1991).

70. Meyer, Leonard. Emotion and Meaning in Music (ML3800 M63).

71. Meyer, Leonard. Music, the Arts and Ideas (ML3800 M633).

72. Ong, Walter. Orality and Literacy (P3505 1982).

73. Panofsky, Erwin. Studies in Iconology (N6370 P3 1972).

74. Pratt, Mary Louise. Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourse (P302 .P74).

75. Propp, Vladimir. Morphology of the Folktale (GR550 P7613).

76. Propp, Vladimir. "Transformations in Fairy Tales." In: Mythology, ed. Pierre Maranda. 1972 (BL315 M37).

77. Riffaterre, Michael. Fictional Truth (PN3335 R53 1990).

78. Rust, F. Dance in Society (GV1646 E6 R8).

79. Schank, Roger C. Tell Me A Story, A New Look at Real and Artificial Memory (BF431 S277 1990).

80. Schapiro, Meyer. Modern Art: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (N6447 S33).

81. Schechner, Richard. Essays on Performance Theory 1970-1976 (PN2039 S37).

82. Scholes, Robert, and Robert Kellogg. The Nature of Narrative (PN3451 S3).

83. Steiner, George. After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation (P306 S66).

84. Storr, Anthony. Music and the Mind (ML3830 S87 1992).

85. Strongman, K. T. The Psychology of Emotion (BF531 S924p 1973).

86. Swann, Brian, ed. Smoothing the Ground (PM156 S6 1983).

87. Tedlock, Dennis, The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation (E99 Z9 T43 1983).

88. Thompson, Stith. "Studying the Folktale." In: The Folktale (GR74 T47 1977).

89. Todorov, Tzvetan. Poetique de la prose 1971 (PN3331 T6).

90. Torgovnick, Marianna. Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects and Modern Lives (NX456.5 P7 T67 1990).

91. Tudor, Andrew. Theories of Film (PN1995 T78 1974b).

92. Uspensky, Boris. A Poetics of Composition (NX200 U613).

93. White, Hayden. The Content of Form (D13 W564 1987).

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