Biopolitics, Materiality and Meaning in Modern European Drama

Hedwig Fraunhofer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2022
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-6744-5 (ISBN)

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Arguing that existing modernisation theories have been unnecessarily one-sided, Hedwig Fraunhofer offers a rewriting of modernity that cuts across binary methodologies – nature and culture, mind and matter, epistemology and ontology, critique and affirmative writing, dramatic and postdramatic theatre.
She specifically reworks the biopolitical exclusions that mark modern western epistemology, leading up to modernity’s totalitarian crisis point.
Fraunhofer reveals the performativity of theatre in its double sense – as theatrical production and as the intra-activity of a dynamic system of multiple relations between human and more-than-human actors, energies and affects. In modern theatre, public and private, human and more-than-human, materiality and meaning collapse in a common life.

Hedwig (Hedy) Fraunhofer is Professor of French and German in the Department of World Languages & Cultures at Georgia College (U.S.). Working at the intersection of Comparative Literature, Drama and Theatre Studies, and Philosophy, she has published on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, poststructuralism, new materialist philosophy, European drama, and the novelist Daniel Kehlmann.

Introduction: Anxious Flesh

Part I: Copenhagen and Paris, ca. 1889: Economies of Excess

1. Posthumanism and Gender, or The Fall Back into Nature

2. Death and Community, or Metaphors and Materiality

Part II: Munich and Paris, 1918 to 1943: Encounters with Fascism

3. Bare Life, or Becoming-Animal

4. Flies vs. the Fetishisation of Consciousness

5. Artaud and the Plague: A Posthumanist Theatre?

6. Where Does the Body End? Artaud’s MaterialSymbolic Theatre

Conclusion

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	27.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	New Materialisms
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 230 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-6744-X / 147446744X
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-6744-5 / 9781474467445
Zustand	Neuware