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Biopolitics, materiality and meaning in modern European drama / Hedwig Fraunhofer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fraunhofer, Hedwig, author.
- Series:
- New materialisms.
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- New materialisms
- Edinburgh scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European drama--History and criticism.
- European drama.
- Biopolitics in literature.
- Materialism in literature.
- Performative (Philosophy).
- Civilization, Modern, in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- 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 theatre.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Anxious Flesh
- Part I: Copenhagen and Paris, circa 1889: Economies of Excess
- 1 Posthumanism and Gender, or the Fall Back into Nature
- 2 Death and Community, or Metaphors and Materiality
- Part II: Munich and Paris, 1918–1943: Encounters with Fascism
- 3 Bare Life, or Becoming-Animal
- 4 Flies vs. the Fetishisation of Consciousness
- 5 Artaud and the Plague: A Posthumanist Theatre?
- 6 Where Does the Body End? Artaud’s Materialsymbolic Theatre
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 11, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-9105-7
- 1-4744-6745-8
- OCLC:
- 1306537917
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