Performing Bodies in Pain: Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
Book Details
Author(s)
M. Carlson
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN / ASIN
0230103863
ISBN-13
9780230103863
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#4,064,213
Category
Performing Arts
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United States 🇺🇸
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Description
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.
