Biopolitics, Materiality and Meaning in Modern European Drama

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Arguing that existing modernization theories have been unnecessarily one-sided, Hedwig Fraunhofer offers a rewriting of modernity that cuts across binary methodologies nature and culture, mind and matter, epistemology and ontology, critique and affirmative writing, dramatic and postdramatic theatre. She specifically reworks the biopolitical exclusions that mark modern western epistemology, leading up to modernity's totalitarian crisis point.Fraunhofer reveals the performativity of theatre in its double sense as theatrical production and as the intra-activity of a dynamic system of multiple relations between human and more-than-human actors, energies and affects. In modern theatre, public and private, human and more-than-human, materiality and meaning collapse in a common life.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-08-25
Mått:164 x 230 x 147 mm
Vikt:516 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Materialisms
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474467445

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Hedwig (Hedy) Fraunhofer is Professor of French and German in the Department of World Languages & Cultures at Georgia College (U.S.). Working at the intersection of Comparative Literature, Drama and Theatre Studies, and Philosophy, she has published on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, poststructuralism, new materialist philosophy, European drama, and the novelist Daniel Kehlmann.

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Biopolitics, Materiality and Meaning constitutes a literary-critical breath of fresh air, insofar as it takes contemporary biopolitics - with its primary emphasis on the post-human emergence of new materialist force - onto the terrain of modernist drama, putting the performativity of matter literally center stage.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Anxious FleshPart I: Copenhagen and Paris, ca. 1889: Economies of Excess1. Posthumanism and Gender, or The Fall Back into Nature2. Death and Community, or Metaphors and MaterialityPart II: Munich and Paris, 1918 to 1943: Encounters with Fascism3. Bare Life, or Becoming-Animal4. Flies vs. the Fetishisation of Consciousness5. Artaud and the Plague: A Posthumanist Theatre?6. Where Does the Body End? Artaud’s MaterialSymbolic TheatreConclusionBibliography