Performing Bodies in Pain

Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists

M. Carlson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

227 Seiten

2011
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-10386-3 (ISBN)

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This text analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in contemporary discourse and late-medieval France, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.

Marla Carlson is Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Georgia, USA

Introduction Feeling Torture Imagining Death Enduring Ecstasy Whipping up Community Containing Chaos Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.9.2011
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Zusatzinfo	8 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 227 p. 8 illus.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-230-10386-3 / 0230103863
ISBN-13	978-0-230-10386-3 / 9780230103863
Zustand	Neuware