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Howard Barker's art of theatre : Essays on his plays, poetry and production work /

Director-dramatist Howard Barker is a restlessly prolific, compulsively controversial and provocative multi-media artist. Beyond his internationally performed and acclaimed theatrical productions, and his award-winning theatre company The Wrestling School, he is also a poet, a painter whose work has...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Goldingay, Sarah (Editor ), Rabey, David Ian, 1958- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York [New York] : Manchester University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : The ultimate matter of style / David Ian Rabey
  • Performance within performance : Howard Barker and the acted life
  • some thoughts / Melanie Jessop
  • Unearthly powers of invention : speech, report and repetition in recent Wrestling School productions / James Reynolds
  • Reinventing 'grand narratives' : Barker's challenge to postmodernism / Elisabeth Angel-Perez
  • Institutions, icons and the body in Barker's plays, 1977-86 / Ian Cooper
  • Access to the body : the theatre of revelation in Beckett, Foreman and Barker / George Hunka
  • 'Not nude but naked' : nakedness and nudity in Barker's drama / Eléonore Obis
  • Places of punishment : surveillance, reason and desire in the plays of Howard Barker / Michael Mangan
  • Barker, criticism and the philosophy of the 'Art of Theatre' / Mark Brown
  • Staging Barker in France 2009 / Christine Kiehl
  • 21 for 21 : a breakthrough moment in international theatre-making? / Sarah Goldingay
  • I Saw Myself : artist and critic meet in the mirror / Mary Karen Dahl
  • 'His niece or his sister' : genealogical uncertainties and literary filiation in Barker's Gertrude
  • The Cry / Vanasay Khamphommala
  • History in the age of fracture : catastrophic time in Barker's The Bite of the Night / Jay Gipson-King
  • The Dying of Today and the meta-stases of language : from history to tale to play to mise-en-scène / Elizabeth Sakellaridou
  • 'The substrata of experience' : Barker's poetry, 1988-2008 / David Ian Rabey
  • Reading Howard Barker's pictorial art / Charles Lamb
  • Howard Barker's paintings, poems and plays : 'in the deed itself', or the triple excavation of the unchangeable / Michel Morel
  • Memories of paintings in Howard Barker's theatre / Heiner Zimmermann
  • The sunless garden of the unconsoled : some destinations beyond catastrophe / Howard Barker
  • Howard Barker in dialogue with David Ian Rabey, City University, New York, 10 May 2010.