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Madness in contemporary British theatre : resistances and representations / Jon Venn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Venn, Jon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- English drama.
- English drama--21st century--History and criticism.
- Mentally ill in literature.
- Mental illness in literature.
- Theater--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Theater.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Theater--Great Britain--History--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- Bibliography
- 2 Psychiatric Power in the Contemporary Asylum: The Diagnostic Gaze and the Practical Critique
- Introduction
- Diagnosis, Realism and the Reality of the Asylum
- Foucault and the Practical Critique
- The Roadmap to Resistance and Pluralism
- Seeing Patriarchy and Seeing Psychiatry in Sarah Daniel's Head-Rot Holiday
- The Multiplicity of Interstices
- The Failure of Tactics
- The Failure and Necessity of Female Solidarity
- Diagnosis Through Language and Race in Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange
- The Multivalence of Hegemony in Blue/Orange
- Language and Power in Blue/Orange
- The Spectacle of the Body of the 'Mad Person'
- The Political Construction of Christopher
- The Dispersed Mad Body in Lucy Prebble's The Effect
- The Mad Person in the White Coat: Uncertainties in Psychiatric Power
- The Sane in the Asylum, the Subjected Body of the 'Mad Person'
- A Visit to the Madhouse
- The Hospital Bed and the Question of Care
- Conclusion
- 3 Hearing Voices, Seeing Visions: Hallucination, Space and Mad Experience
- Introduction
- Mad Experience, Hallucination, Theatre and Space
- Radical Spatialities and Radical Spaces
- Uncertain Meanings and the Family in The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland
- Open Dialogue, Therapy, Representation
- Tolerating Uncertainty
- The Family Show
- Hallucination: Family and Madness Coming Together
- Away with the Fairies: Globalization, Madness and the Fairytale in The Skriker
- Fairy of Nature or Madness: A Confusion of Meanings
- Far, Far, Away: Playing with the Fairytale
- Away with the Fairies: The Magical and the Real in Material Space
- Madness Through Magical Thinking
- Smoke in Your Eyes: Spaces of Hallucination, Intersectionality and Invisible Violence in Debbie Tucker green's nut
- Smoke and Light: Invisible Violence in nut
- Realism, the Ex-Wife, Gender and Madness
- Intersectionality and Space
- New Spatialities of Madness: The Possibility of Solidarity
- 4 Other Lives and Radical Perspectives: Witnessing the Suicide, Witnessing the Mad
- Suicidology: Durkheim, Sociology and Politicized Accounts
- Ethical Relations to the Individual Suicide Event
- The Possibility of Witnessing
- Witnessing and Performance
- Witnessing and Suicide in Performance
- Victim, Perpetrator, Bystander: Seeing the Witness in 4.48 Psychosis
- Testimony: Sight and Light
- Psychiatry and the Absence of the Witness
- The Theatre and the Audience, Possibilities of Sight and Witnessing
- What's My Motivation? The Implications of Engagement in David Greig's Fragile
- Within the Leap, Precarity, Interaction
- Multiplicities of Suicide Within the Leap
- What's My Motivation: Suicide and Audience Interaction
- Witnessing and the Self-Reflexive Gaze
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 10, 2021).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Judith Greenblatt Endowment Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: VENN, JON. MADNESS IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH THEATRE.
- ISBN:
- 9783030797829
- 3030797821
- Publisher Number:
- 99988705918
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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