Performing Bodies in Pain
Author | : Marla Carlson |
Publisher | : Palgrave MacMillan |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2010-07-15 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105215365342 |
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Rating | : 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Download or read book Performing Bodies in Pain written by Marla Carlson and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text analyzes the cultural work of spectacular suffering in contemporary discourse and late-medieval France, reading recent dramatizations of torture and performances of self-mutilating conceptual art against late-medieval saint plays.