[Commlist] New Book: From Erving to Goffman: A Work in Performance?

New Open Access Book: From Erving to Goffman: A Work in Performance?

mediastudies.press is a scholar-led, nonprofit, diamond open access 
publisher in the media, film, and communication studies fields. We are 
excited to announce the publication of From Erving to Goffman: A Work in 
Performance?.

https://www.mediastudies.press/from-erving-to-goffman-a-work-in-performance 
<https://www.mediastudies.press/from-erving-to-goffman-a-work-in-performance>

Erving Goffman was among the most prominent sociologists of the 
twentieth century. An unmatched observer of everyday human interaction, 
he has only grown in influence in the 45 years since his untimely 1980 
death. We know surprisingly little about his life. Winkin’s biography, 
translated from the French (D’Erving à Goffman: Une œuvre performée?, 
2022, MkF éditions), is an elegantly written and deeply informed account 
of the sociologist’s life, by one of the world’s leading Goffman 
scholars. From Erving to Goffman reads Goffman’s life through his 
performances on stage, at the lectern, before an audience. Winkin treats 
the lecture—Goffman’s own conference talks, his writings on the lecture 
form, and even a lecture on the lecture—as a reflexive device to draw 
out how the Canadian-born Erving became Goffman the American 
sociologist. We learn how Goffman, the quintessential observer of 
performance in everyday life, performed himself into professional 
existence. In talk after talk, he managed the impressions he gave off 
with often-eccentric care. From Erving to Goffman is a biography in 
miniature, with an account of the scholar’s life joined to a collection 
of conference-vignettes from his visits around the world. It is a story 
of a sociologist made in performance, with photographers banned and 
appearances—on and off-stage—orchestrated. It is fitting that, in a book 
about self-exemplifying self-making, Winkin concludes with an eloquent 
account of his own decades-long project to write a full biography, still 
retracing Goffman’s steps forty years on. From Erving to Goffman, the 
latest installment in the Goffman in the Open series, is an unusually 
perceptive portrait-in-fragments of the sociologist who became Goffman.

The book is available online and as a free download in PDF and ePub. A 
paperback version is also available.

https://www.mediastudies.press/from-erving-to-goffman-a-work-in-performance 
<https://www.mediastudies.press/from-erving-to-goffman-a-work-in-performance>

 From Erving to Goffman: A Work in Performance? appears in the Goffman 
in the Open series. Scholars interested in proposing volumes in this or 
other series are encouraged to reach out with a query:

https://www.mediastudies.press/proposals 
<https://www.mediastudies.press/proposals>

You can learn more about mediastudies.press <mediastudies.press>, 
including our operations and OA principles, on our site:

https://www.mediastudies.press/about <https://www.mediastudies.press/about>

The press is a member of the Open Book Collective and the ScholarLed 
consortium, and also publishes the History of Media Studies journal. 
Please contact us at press@mediastudies.press 
<mailto:press@mediastudies.press>.
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