Body and Event in Howard Barker's Drama From Catastrophe to Anastrophe in The Castle and Other Plays /
This book explores questions of gender, desire, embodiment, and language in Barker's oeuvre. With The Castle 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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot,
2019.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
| Summary: | This book explores questions of gender, desire, embodiment, and language in Barker's oeuvre. With The Castle 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 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, among others). . |
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| Physical Description: | XVII, 151 p. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9783030286996 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-28699-6 |
