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Special issue focusing on violence in fifteenth-century life, text,
and image: warfare and justice, violence in family and milieu
(court, town, village, and forest), hagiography, ethnicity and
xenophobia, gender relations and sexual violence, brutality on the
stage, and the relation of text and image in the depiction of
violence. Founded in 1977 as the publication organ for the
Fifteenth-Century Symposium, Fifteenth-Century Studies has appeared
annually since then. It publishes essays on all aspects of life in
the fifteenth century, including literature, drama, history,
philosophy, art, music, religion, science, and ritual and custom.
The editors strive to do justice to the most contested medieval
century, a period that has long been the stepchild of research. The
fifteenth century defies consensus on fundamental issues: some
scholars dispute, in fact, whether it belonged to the middle ages
at all, arguing that it was a period of transition, a passage to
modern times. At issue, therefore, is the very tenor of an age that
stood under the influence of Gutenberg, Columbus, the Devotio
Moderna,, and Humanism. Volume 27 is a special issue offering a
selection of outstanding papers on violence that will interest
students of medieval history and the early Renaissance, the
humanities, art history, sociology, anthropology, and even the
general reader. The articles highlight warfare and justice,
violence in family and milieu (court, town, village,and forest),
hagiography, ethnicity and xenophobia, gender relations and sexual
violence, brutality on the stage, and the relation of text and
image in the depiction of violence. Edelgard E. DuBruck is
professor in theModern Languages Department at Marygrove College in
Detroit; Yael Even is associate professor of Art and Art History at
the University of Missouri, St. Louis.
When theater and related forms of live performance explore the
borderlands labeled animal and autism, they both reflect and affect
their audiences' understanding of what it means to be human.
Affect, Animals, and Autists maps connections across performances
that question the borders of the human whose neurodiverse
experiences have been shaped by the diagnostic label of autism, and
animal-human performance relationships that dispute and blur
anthropocentric edges. By analyzing specific structures of affect
with the vocabulary of emotions, Marla Carlson builds upon the
conception of affect articulated by psychologist Silvan Tomkins.
The book treats a diverse selection of live performance and
archival video and analyzes the ways in which they affect their
audiences. The range of performances includes commercially
successful productions such as The Curious Incident of the Dog in
the Night-Time, War Horse, and The Lion King as well as to the more
avant-garde and experimental theater created by Robert Wilson and
Christopher Knowles, Back to Back Theatre, Elevator Repair Service,
Pig Iron Theatre, and performance artist Deke Weaver.
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