On Repetition

Eirini Kartsaki is a teaching fellow in theatre and performance studies at Queen Mary University of London. She is also the editor of On Repitition.

Persisting Forever: Introducing Repetition 

Eirini Kartsaki
 
Chapter 1 - Of Secret Signals, Absent Masters and the Trembling of the Contours: 15Walter Benjamin, Yvonne Rainer and the Repeatability of Gesture

Swen Steinhäuser
 
Chapter 2 - All the Home’s a Stage: Uncanny Encounters Between Auditorium and Oikos 

Alan Read
 
Chapter 3 - Repetition as Technology of the Numinous in Performance: The Artist Is Present by Marina Abramovic´

Silvia Battista
 
Chapter 4 - When Is a Joke not a Joke? Reading (and Re-reading) Stewart Lee’s ‘The Rap Singers’ 

Emma Bennett
 
Chapter 5 - The Crying Channel 

Claire Hind and Gary Winters
 
Chapter 6 -The Cyclical Pleasures and Deaths of Symbolization: How to Become 117 a Cupcake/The Famous’ Adaptation of Frankenstein 

Lauren Barri Holstein
 
Chapter 7 - A Pointless Pastime? Early Nineteenth-Century Pin-Prick Imagery

Alice Barnaby
 
Chapter 8 - Repeated Acts of Intimacy and Harm in Andrea Brady’s Mutability: Scripts for Infancy 

Gareth Farmer
 
Chapter 9 -‘I Was Not HEARD’: Trauma and Articulation in the Poetry of Geraldine Monk 

Linda Kemp
 
Chapter 10 - Déjà-vu, Doubles and Dread: The Uncanny and Christopher Smith’s Triangle 

Ruth McPhee
 
Chapter 11 - Farewell to Farewell: Impossible Endings and Unfinished Finitudes 

Eirini Kartsaki
 
Afterword: Repetition or Recognition? 

Clare Foster