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With this book, James Anderson Winn makes an original and thought-provoking contribution to the current debate about the state of humanities education. Contending that humanists from Plato to Alan Bloom have identified excessively with the written word, Winn examines the troubled relations between the humanities and performance and calls for scholars to form a new alliance with performers.
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Winn (English, Boston Univ.) closely analyzes the humanities, emphasizing their roots in performance traditions and their subsequent development. He concludes that music, visual arts, and theatrical display have been, over time, constrained by the written word and that, as a result, their essential nonverbal power has been undermined. Through musical examples and descriptions, literary quotations, philosophical discussion, and historical details, Winn offers persuasive evidence in support of his ideas. He draws examples from a variety of sources?from the structure of ancient Greek tragedy to the perceptions of jazz musicians to the writings of Roland Barthes, to name just a few. He uses his research brilliantly, coaxing out thought-provoking conclusions. Winn's final proposal, for collaboration between scholars in the humanities and performers, could be heeded with positive results, particularly given the state of the arts in contemporary society. For scholarly collections.?Carol J. Binkowski, Bloomfield, NJ
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