Deploying Delivery as Critical Method: Neo-Burlesque’s Embodied Rhetoric

Autor: Maggie M. Werner
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Rhetoric Review. 36:44-59
ISSN: 1532-7981
0735-0198
DOI: 10.1080/07350198.2017.1246010
Popis: Scholars have paid relatively little attention to material symbolic communication in analyzing rhetoric of the body, focusing primarily on the linguistic or on nonsymbolic materiality. Yet the body communicates via a range of material symbolic practices. Delivery offers an analytical framework for understanding the ways that performing bodies communicate in multiple symbolic codes. Through analysis of neo-burlesque, the essay argues that delivery as a critical method for embodied rhetoric highlights the complex interplay between spaces and bodies and audiences that construct particular genres, providing a wider rhetorical vocabulary to critiques of neo-burlesque and other contested sites of women’s erotic performance.
Databáze: OpenAIRE