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Performing Bodies in Pain : Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carlson, Marla (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Series:Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
Subjects:
History.
Cultural History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
History of Medieval Europe.
Literary History.
Medieval Literature.
Theatre History.
Civilization > History.
Literature > History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval.
Theater > History.
Europe > History-476-1492.
Great Britain > History.
Electronic books.
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Description
Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (240 pages)
ISBN:9780230111486
DOI:10.1057/9780230111486