Trauma-tragedy : symptoms of contemporary performance /

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Trauma-Tragedy investigates the extent to which performance can represent the 'unrepresentable' of trauma. Throughout, there is a focus on how such representations might be achieved and if they could help us to understand trauma on personal and social levels. In a world increasingly preocc...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Duggan, Patrick, 1981-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Psychic trauma in the theater.
Pain in the theater.
Violence in the theater.
Theater and society.
Performance art.
Traumatisme psychique au théâtre.
Douleur au théâtre.
Violence au théâtre.
Théâtre et société.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
Pain in the theater
Performance art
Psychic trauma in the theater
Theater and society
Violence in the theater
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Trauma's performance genealogy
  • Trauma-tragedy : a structure of feeling
  • Mimetic shimmering and the performance punctum
  • Performance 'texts' as sites of witness
  • Being there : the 'presence' of trauma
  • Another view
  • Conclusion : trauma-tragedy and the contemporary moment.

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