1st Edition

The Politics and Poetics of Camp

Edited By Morris Meyer Copyright 1994
234 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

The Politics and Poetics of Camp is a radical reappraisal of the meaning and discourse of camp. The contributors look at both the meaning and the uses of camp performance, and ask: is camp a style, or a witty but nonetheless powerful cultural critique? The essays investigate camp from its early formations in the seventeenth and eighteenth century to its present manifestations in queer theatre... Read more
Contributors include: Gregory Bredbeck, Kate Davy, Thomas King, Margaret Thompson Drewal, Chuck Kleinhans, Cynthia Morrell, Martin Worman, Jerome Schultz

Biography

Morris Meyer