“Spectacle of Performance” as a Spectacle of Interdisciplinarity. Comments on John Hall
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Interdisciplinarity, Cultural Sociology, Semiotics, Historical Sociology, CultureAbstract
Comment on John R. Hall's The Spectacle of Performance. The Postmodern Hyperreal and Medieval European Play (1992-2022).
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