Body and Event in Howard Barker's Drama (eBook)

From Catastrophe to Anastrophe in The Castle and Other Plays

Alireza Fakhrkonandeh (Autor)

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2019
XVII, 151 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-28699-6 (ISBN)

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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).  

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 ANQ, Theatre Quarterly, Textual Practice, Comparative Drama, and the Journal of Contemporary Drama in English. He is the academic translator of Howard Barker's works from English into Persian.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.11.2019
• Zusatzinfo: XVII, 151 p.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • Baudrillard • Deleuze • Embodiment • Gender • Howard Barker • language • Postmodernism • Religion • Subjectivity • theatre of catastrophe
• ISBN-10: 3-030-28699-1 / 3030286991
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-28699-6 / 9783030286996