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Title Enter the undead author : intellectual property, the ideology of authorship, and performance practices since the 1960s / George Pate.
Author Pate, George, 1985- author.
Publisher Vancouver : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2019]
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 In Library  Standard  Library Level 11  Theatre A120 PAT  
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Description ix, 161 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN 9781683931584 cloth : alkaline paper
Note Extensive and substantial revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Georgia, 2014, titled: Reinventing performance, reproducing ideologies : literary models of authorship and performance practices from 1960 to the present.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- 1984: the author as owner -- "A necessary myth": the author as individual -- Whose joke is it anyway?: the author as originator -- Conclusion: The return of the author.
Summary "Enter the Undead Author explores the points of tension between the idea of authorship and the realities of theatrical production and other performance practices from the 1960s to the present with special focus on those moments when authorship helps to reappropriate revolutionary practices into traditional modes of production"-- Provided by publisher.
Series Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in law, culture, and the humanities.
Library Class Theatre A120
Subject Theater -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Theater -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Authors and theater.
Intellectual property.

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