Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama

• Main Author: Ciobanu, Estella (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 Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Literature, Medieval.; Drama.; Religion-History.; Medieval Literature.; History of Religion.

Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama combines epistemological enquiry, gender theory and Foucauldian concepts to investigate the body as a useful site for studying power, knowledge and truth. Intertwining the conceptualizations of violence and the performativity of gender ide...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: The Demonic/-ised Subaltern's In-sight
• 2. The Slaughter of the Innocent(s): The Meek, the Muted and the Discursive Spear of Power
• 3. The Tyrant Is Dead. Long Live the Tyrant!
• 4. The Body in Pieces: Judicial Torture and/as Musical Dismemberment in the Passion Plays
• 5. Commemorations of Christ's Passion Body: Ostentatio Vulnerum, Redemptive Theology and Violence of Representation in the Post-Crucifixion Plays
• 6. Noah's Wife in the Flood Plays: The Body of Argument between Argumentum ad Verecundiam, Argumentum ad Hominem and Argumentum ad Baculum
• 7. Stipendia Enim Peccati, Mors
• 8. Conclusion.