Biopolitics, materiality and meaning in modern European drama /

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 theatr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fraunhofer, Hedwig, 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
Series:New materialisms (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Subjects:
European drama > History and criticism.
Biopolitics in literature.
Théâtre européen > Histoire et critique.
Biopolitique dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama
European drama.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Posthumanism and gender, or the fall back into nature
  • Death and community, or metaphors and materiality
  • Bare life, or becoming-animal
  • Flies vs. the fetishisation of consciousness
  • Artaud and the plague: a posthumanist theatre?
  • Where does the body end? Artaud's materialsymbolic theatre.

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