Tag: drama

June 5, 2020

Book Excerpt! Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama, by Guojun Wang (introduction)

“A refreshing book that will encourage readers and researchers to pay closer attention to the modes and codes of theatrical costuming in association with issues of ethnicity, gender, and individual identities, embedded in the specific context of early Qing China.”...

June 3, 2020

Clothes Make the Person. Clothes Make the Nation
By Guojun Wang

“A marvelous piece of scholarship, Staging Personhood presents an exhaustive study of the function of clothing on stage and off. While speaking to issues of sexuality, gender, masculinity, and status in real society, the book goes beyond the existing literature...

April 7, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Virginia Woolf, François Laruelle, German Cinema, and more!

Our weekly listing of new titles.

March 1, 2013

The Life and Works of Alain Badiou

Check out our Pinterest board honoring the career of Alain Badiou.

March 1, 2013

Alain Badiou translates "What is a Philosopher?" from Plato's Republic

Read an excerpt from Alain Badiou’s creative new translation of Plato’s Republic.

February 28, 2013

Ward Blanton: Paula Versus the New Philosophers, or, Incident in Beijing

Read an essay by Professor Ward Blanton on the importance of Badiou’s The Incident at Antioch to the study of St. Paul.

February 27, 2013

Susan Spitzer: Translating Alain Badiou's The Incident at Antioch and Plato's Republic

Susan Spitzer discusses the experience of translating two very different works by Alain Badiou.

February 26, 2013

Kenneth Reinhard: Badiou's Sublime Translation of the Republic

Read Kenneth Reinhard’s introduction to Alain Badiou’s “hypertranslation” of Plato’s Republic.

February 26, 2013

Kenneth Reinhard explains Alain Badiou's "political theater"

Read an excerpt from Kenneth Reinhard’s introduction to Alain Badiou’s play, The Incident at Antioch.