Trauma-Tragedy (eBook)

Symptoms of Contemporary Performance

Patrick Duggan (Autor)

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2018
224 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-2992-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Theatre and performance studies; trauma studies; cultural studies; sociology and social anthropology; philosophy; classics.

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Trauma-tragedy investigates the extent to which performance can represent the 'unrepresentable' of trauma. Throughout, there is a focus on how such representations might be achieved and if they could help us to understand trauma on personal and social levels. In a world increasingly preoccupied with and exposed to traumas, this volume considers what performance offers as a means of commentary that other cultural products do not. The book's clear and coherent navigation of complex relation between performance and trauma and its analysis of key practitioners and performances (from Sarah Kane to Socetas Raffaello Sanzio, Harold Pinter to Forced Entertainment, and Phillip Pullman to Franco B) make it accessible and useful to students of performance and trauma studies, yet rigorous and incisive for scholars and specialists. Duggan explores ideas around the phenomenological and socio-political efficacy and impact of performance in relation to trauma. Ultimately, the book advances a new performance theory or mode, 'trauma-tragedy', that suggests much contemporary performance can generate the sensation of being present in trauma through its structural embodiment in performance, or 'presence-in-trauma effects'. -- .

Autor

Patrick Duggan is Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter.

Inhalt

Introduction
1. Trauma’s performative genealogy
2. Trauma-tragedy: a structure of feeling
3. Mimetic shimmering and the performative punctum
4. Performance ‘texts’ as sites of witness
5. Being there: the ‘presence’ of trauma
6. Another view
Conclusion: Trauma-tragedy and the contemporary moment
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2018
• Zusatzinfo: Illustrations, black & white
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Schlagworte: Abu Ghraib events • A. D. Nuttall • audience experience • Cathy Caruth • Elizabethan tragedies • ethics • Jean-Martin Charcot • modern tragedy • polysemic phenomenon • Raymond Williams' writings • theatrical trauma • trauma symptoms • Trauma theory
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-2992-2 / 1526129922
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-2992-5 / 9781526129925