Body and Event in Howard Barker's Drama
From Catastrophe to Anastrophe in The Castle and Other Plays
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Beschreibung
This book explores questions of gender, desire, embodiment, and language in Barker’s oeuvre. With The Castle as a focal point, the scope extends considerably beyond this play to incorporate analysis and exploration of the Theatre of Catastrophe; questions of gender, subjectivity and desire; God/religion; aesthetics of the self; autonomy-heteronomy; ethics; and the relation between political and libidinal economy, at stake in 20 other plays by Barker (including Rome, The Power of the Dog, The Bite of the Night, Judith, Possibilities, I Saw Myself, Fence in Its Thousandth Year, The Gaoler’s Ache for the Nearly Dead, The Brilliance of the Servant, Golgo, among others).
Represents the first book to apply Deleuze's 'philosophy of the event' to Barker's work Offers a new re-contextualization of The Castle in the context of post-9/11 and Brexit Brings feminist theory to bear on The Castle and other plays
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Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
Themen in »Body and Event in Howard Barker's Drama«
Howard Barker Theatre of Catastrophe Gender Subjectivity Religion Deleuze Aesthetics Postmodernism Baudrillard Embodiment Language