Dialogue is a many-sided critical concept; at once an ancient philosophical genre, a formal component of fiction and drama, a model for the relationship of writer and reader, and a theoretical key to the nature of language. In all its forms, it questions ‘literature’, disturbing the singleness and fixity of the written text with the fluid interactivity of conversation. In this clear and concise guide to the multiple significance of the term, Peter Womack: outlines the history of dialogue ...

Specially designed as training resource for undergraduate and graduate students in applied sport and performance psychology as well as an array of early-career professionals. Case study collection with diverse, international authorship. Deliberate attention paid to ethical challenges and diverse populations (race, culture, gender, sexual orientation, disability, etc.) in order to challenge students to identify their own uniqueness in the world and how it impacts their attitudes, beliefs, and ...

This updated fourth edition of Theatre Histories offers a critical overview of global theatre, drama, and performance, spanning a broad wealth of world cultures and periods, integrating them chronologically or thematically, and showing how they have often interacted. Bringing together a group of scholars from a diverse range of backgrounds and approaches to the history of global theater, this introduction to theatre history places theatre into its larger historical contexts and attends to com...