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Hunger on the Stage.
In his short story "The Hunger Artist," Kafka imagined the theatrical career of a "professional faster" whose performance consists merely in displaying his own starving body before an avid audience. Kafka thus paradoxically suggested that hunger, mere emptiness working its way th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Pub.,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In his short story "The Hunger Artist," Kafka imagined the theatrical career of a "professional faster" whose performance consists merely in displaying his own starving body before an avid audience. Kafka thus paradoxically suggested that hunger, mere emptiness working its way through declining bodies, may be a privileged theatrical object. Hunger often signals an anchorage in socio-historical reality, and invites extreme situations on stage, articulating large-scale cataclysms (famines, the ... |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (301 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781443814966 1443814962 1282414143 9781282414143 9786612414145 6612414146 |