Performing Bodies in Pain

Medieval and Post-Modern Martyrs, Mystics, and Artists

  • Authors
  • Marla Carlson
Book

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History book series (PSTPH)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xii
    PDF
  2. Introduction
    Marla Carlson
    Pages 1-23
  3. Feeling Torture
    Marla Carlson
    Pages 25-48
  4. Imagining Death
    Marla Carlson
    Pages 49-76
  5. Enduring Ecstasy
    Marla Carlson
    Pages 77-101
  6. Whipping Up Community
    Marla Carlson
    Pages 103-130
  7. Containing Chaos
    Marla Carlson
    Pages 131-154
  8. Conclusion
    Marla Carlson
    Pages 155-166
  9. Back Matter
    Pages 167-227
    PDF

About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

art concept Conceptual art death discourse drama France Medieval Literature Middle Ages performance play torture

Bibliographic information