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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fakhrkonandeh, Alireza (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • 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.