The aesthetic of the unfinished: Ethics and performance

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-19

  Fenske, Mindy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Answerability; Corporeality; Identity Performance; Mikhail Bakhtin; Virtuality

Indexed keywords

EID: 11944273946     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1046293042000239447     Document Type: Article

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