Performing Bodies in Pain |
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| Author:
| Carlson, Marla |
| Series title: | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-282-99245-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $90.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.