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Herbert Blau
Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities
English and Comparative Literature
Areas of Study: drama and performance; critical theory; modern and postmodern poetry and fiction; traditions of the avant-garde
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University (English and American Literature)
Publications:
Books
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The Dubious Spectacle: Extremities of Theater, 1976-2000. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2002.
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Sails of the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2000.
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Nothing in Itself: Complexions of Fashion. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1999.
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To All Appearances: Ideology and Performance. London/ New York: Routledge,1992.
Books in Progress
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As If: An Autobiography
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Reality Principles: From the Absurd to the Virtual
Essays
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“From the Dreamwork of Secession to Orgies Mystery Theater,” Modern Austrian Literature 42.3 (forthcoming 2009); also Modern Drama (2009).
- “Performing in the Chaosmos: Farts, Follicles, Mathematics, and Delirium in Deleuze.” In Deleuze and Performance, ed/ Laura Cull ( Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, forthcoming).
- “Why What History?’” Modern Language Quarterly 70.1 (2009): 3-10. “Inescapable Mimesis: JDTC in the Mortal Coil,” Journal of Dramatic Criticism and Theory 22.1 (2007): 95-97.
- “Virtually Yours: Presence, Liveness, Lessness.” In Critical Theory and Performance . Eds. Janelle Reinelt and Joseph Roach. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2007: 532-46.
- “Flights of Angels, Scattered Seeds.” In The Returns of Alwin Nikolais: Bodies, Boundaries, and the Dance Canon . Eds. Randy Martin and Claudia Gitelman. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan Univ. Press, 2007. 107-131.
- “Apnea and True Illusion: Breath(less) in Beckett,” Distinguished Centennial Lecture, in Modern Drama 49.4 (2006): 452-68; also in Beckett at 100: Revolving It All, ed. Linda Ben Zvi and Angela Moorjani. London: Oxford Univ. Press (forthcoming).
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“The Pathos of Dialogue: Unable to Speak a Word,” Dialog 5/6 (2006): 11-13 (for 50th Anniversary Issue).
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“Who’s There?—Community of the Question,” Performing Arts Journal 83, 28.2 (2006): 1-12.
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“Seeming, Seeming: The Illusion of Enough.” In Against Theater: Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage . Eds. Martin Puchner and Alan Ackerman. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2006. 231-47.