Terrible action: Recent criticism and questions of agency

Shakespeare

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 95-118

  Fernie, Ewan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action; Agency; Formalism; Historicism; Performativity; Subjectivity; Terror; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 61149214392     PISSN: 17450918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450910600662869     Document Type: Article

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