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Fraunhofer, Hedwig, 1959-

Biopolitics, materiality and meaning in modern European drama / Hedwig Fraunhofer. - 1 online resource (viii, 317 pages) - New materialisms . - New materialisms (Edinburgh, Scotland) .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-311) and index.

Posthumanism and gender, or the fall back into nature -- Death and community, or metaphors and materiality -- Bare life, or becoming-animal -- Flies vs. the fetishisation of consciousness -- Artaud and the plague: a posthumanist theatre? -- Where does the body end? Artaud’s materialsymbolic theatre.

Arguing that existing modernisation 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.

ISBN: 9781474467452 1474467458 9781474467469 1474467466

Source: 22573/ctv1c1m536 JSTOR

Subjects--Topical Terms:
European drama--History and criticism.
Biopolitics in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama
European drama.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: PN1821 / .F73 2020eb

Dewey Class. No.: 809.20094