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Body and Event in Howard Barker's Drama
From Catastrophe to Anastrophe in The Castle and Other Plays|
58,84 € |
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| Verlag: | Palgrave Pivot |
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| Veröffentl.: | 09.11.2019 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9783030286996 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
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This book explores questions of gender, desire, embodiment, and language in Barker’s oeuvre. With <i>The Castle</i> as a focal point, the scope extends considerably beyond this play to incorporate analysis and exploration of the Theatre of Catastrophe; questions of gender, subjectivity and desire; God/religion; aesthetics of the self; autonomy-heteronomy; ethics; and the relation between political and libidinal economy, at stake in 20 other plays by Barker (including <i>Rome, The Power of the Dog, The Bite of the Night, Judith, Possibilities, I Saw Myself, Fence in Its Thousandth Year, The Gaoler’s Ache for the Nearly Dead, The Brilliance of the Servant, Golgo</i>, among others).
<div>CHAPTER ONE: New Cartographies of Catastrophe and the Ethics of the Non-Human: Howard Barker’s Aesthetics since 1980s.- CHAPTER TWO: The Castle and Other Plays.- CHAPTER THREE: Relationality, Desire, and Language.- CHAPTER FOUR: Aporias of Religion in Barker: God, Deconstruction and the Re-Writing of the Bible.- CHAPTER FIVE: Disciplinary Apparatus, Paining the Transgressive Bodies and.- CHAPTER SIX: The Moment of Con-tactile Aesthethics.</div>
Alireza Fakhrkonandeh is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Drama and Literary Theory at the University of Southampton, UK. He has published in such journals as <i>ANQ, Theatre Quarterly, Textual Practice, Comparative Drama</i>, and the <i>Journal of Contemporary Drama in English</i>. He is the academic translator of Howard Barker's works from English into Persian.
<p>Represents the first book to apply Deleuze's 'philosophy of the event' to Barker's work</p><p>Offers a new re-contextualization of The Castle in the context of post-9/11 and Brexit</p><p>Brings feminist theory to bear on The Castle and other plays</p>
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