Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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Title Information: |
medieval and post-modern martyrs, mystics, and artists |
Author: |
CarlsonMarla., |
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
Place of Publication: |
New York |
Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
Year of Publication: |
2010 |
Edition: |
1st ed. |
Description: |
1 online resource (xii, 227 p.)ill. : |
Series: |
Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history |
Subject: |
Theater - History - United States - 21st century. - |
Subject: |
Performance art. - |
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Theater - History - France - Medieval, 500-1500. - |
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French drama - History and criticism. - To 1500 - |
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Passion-plays - History and criticism. - |
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21st century. - |
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France. - |
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French drama. - |
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History. - |
Subject: |
History and criticism. - |
Subject: |
Medieval, 500-1500. - |
Subject: |
Passion-plays. - |
Subject: |
Theater. - |
Subject: |
Theater - History - France - |
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To 1500. - |
Subject: |
United States. - |
Subject: |
Fine Arts. - |
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PERFORMING ARTS - Acting & Auditioning. - |
Subject: |
Pain in the theater. - |
Subject: |
Violence in the theater. - |
Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230111486An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
Notes: |
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--City University of New York, 2002. |
Summary: |
The urgent debate about torture in public discourse of the twenty-first century thrusts pain into the foreground while research in neuroscience is transforming our understanding of this fundamental human experience. In late-medieval France, a country devastated by the Black Death, torn by civil strife, and strained by the Hundred Year's War with England, the notion of pain shifted within the conceptual frameworks provided by theology and medicine. Performing Bodies in Pain analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering during these two periods, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays. |
ISBN: |
9780230111486electronic bk. |
ISBN: |
0230111483electronic bk. |
Content Note: |
Introduction Feeling torture Imagining death Enduring ecstasy Whipping up community Containing chaos Conclusion. |