Incapacity : Wittgenstein, Anxiety, and Performance Behavior

In this highly original study of the nature of performance, Spencer Golub uses the insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein into the way language works to analyze the relationship between the linguistic and the visual in the work of a broad range of dramatists, novelists, and filmmakers, among them Richard F...

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Main Author: Golub, Spencer (auth)
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Published: Evanston, Illinois Northwestern University Press 20140808
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