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.
General
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History |
| Release date: |
August 2010 |
| First published: |
July 2010 |
| Authors: |
M Carlson
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Paper over boards
|
| Pages: |
227 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-230-10386-3 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Theatre, drama >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-230-10386-3 |
| Barcode: |
9780230103863 |
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