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Hysteria in performance /

"The nineteenth-century study of hysteria at the Salpêtrière hospital was a medical project, but also a theatrical one. The hysteric's public appearance was a continual ethical provocation, pointing not only to the vulnerability of her person but to the unstable position of her spectator...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cole, Jenn, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Looking without seeing
  • The hysteric as scapegoat
  • Hysterical discourse
  • Hysteria in/as performance
  • Hysterical strategies in contemporary performance.