Body and Event in Howard Barker's Drama : From Catastrophe to Anastrophe in The Castle and Other Plays Hardback
by Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
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This book explores questions of gender, desire, embodiment, and language in Barker’s oeuvre.
With The Castle as a focal point, the scope extends considerably beyond this play to incorporate analysis and exploration of the Theatre of Catastrophe; questions of gender, subjectivity and desire; God/religion; aesthetics of the self; autonomy-heteronomy; ethics; and the relation between political and libidinal economy, at stake in 20 other plays by Barker (including Rome, The Power of the Dog, The Bite of the Night, Judith, Possibilities, I Saw Myself, Fence in Its Thousandth Year, The Gaoler’s Ache for the Nearly Dead, The Brilliance of the Servant, Golgo, among others).
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:151 pages, XVII, 151 p.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:19/11/2019
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- ISBN:9783030286989
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:151 pages, XVII, 151 p.
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:19/11/2019
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- ISBN:9783030286989