Abstract

Part I: History and Method 1 Julia A. Walker, The Text/Performance Split across the Analytic/Continental Divide 2 Martin Puchner, Kenneth Burke: Theater, Philosophy, and the Limits of Performance 3 Tobin Nellhaus, Critical Realism and Performance Strategies Part II: Presence 4 Philip Auslander, Humanoid Boogie: Reflections on Robotic Performance 5 No¿l Carroll, Philosophy and Drama: Performance, Interpretation, and Intentionality 6 Suzanne M. Jaeger, Embodiment and Presence: The Ontology of Presence Reconsidered 7 Jon Erickson, Presence 8 Robert P. Crease and John Lutterbie, Technique 9 Alice Rayner, Presenting Objects, Presenting Things Part III: Reception 10 David Z. Saltz, Infiction and Outfiction: The Role of Fiction in Theatrical Performance 11 James R. Hamilton, Understanding Plays 12 Bence Nanay, Perception, Action, and Identification in the Theater 13 David Krasner, Empathy and Theater 14 Mike Sell, The Voice of Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Logocentrism 15 Michael L. Quinn, Theatricality, Convention, and the Principle of Charity