| Performing Bodies in Pain: Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists 2010 Edition Contributor(s): Carlson, M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0230103863 ISBN-13: 9780230103863 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $98.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - Literary Criticism | Drama - History | Europe - Medieval |
| Dewey: 792.028 |
| LCCN: 2010001967 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (0.80 lbs) 227 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |