Performing bodies in pain: medieval and post-modern martyrs, mystics, and artists

Performing bodies in pain: medieval and post-modern martyrs, mystics, and artists

Carlson, Marla

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This text analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in contemporarydiscourse and late-medieval France, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saintplays. MARIA CARLSON, Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Georgia, USA INDICE: - Introduction - Feeling Torture - Imagining Death - Enduring Ecstasy - Whipping up Community - Containing Chaos - Conclusion

  • ISBN: 978-0-230-10386-3
  • Editorial: Palgrave MacM
  • Encuadernacion: Cartoné
  • Páginas: 240
  • Fecha Publicación: 20/01/2011
  • Nº Volúmenes: 1
  • Idioma: Desconocido