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Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of contemporary performance
Patrick Duggan
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Description for Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of contemporary performance
Paperback. The book advances a new performance theory or mode, 'trauma-tragedy', that suggests much contemporary performance can generate the sensation of being present in trauma through its structural embodiment in performance, or 'presence-in-trauma effects'. Num Pages: 240 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ANC; ASZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 296.
Trauma-tragedy investigates the extent to which performance can represent the 'unrepresentable' of trauma. Throughout, there is a focus on how such representations might be achieved and if they could help us to understand trauma on personal and social levels. In a world increasingly preoccupied with and exposed to traumas, this volume considers what performance offers as a means of commentary that other cultural products do not. The book's clear and coherent navigation of complex relations between performance and trauma and its analysis of key practitioners and performances (from Sarah Kane to Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Harold Pinter to ... Read more
Trauma-tragedy investigates the extent to which performance can represent the 'unrepresentable' of trauma. Throughout, there is a focus on how such representations might be achieved and if they could help us to understand trauma on personal and social levels. In a world increasingly preoccupied with and exposed to traumas, this volume considers what performance offers as a means of commentary that other cultural products do not. The book's clear and coherent navigation of complex relations between performance and trauma and its analysis of key practitioners and performances (from Sarah Kane to Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Harold Pinter to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
301g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719099885
SKU
V9780719099885
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Ref
99-15
About Patrick Duggan
Patrick Duggan is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of Surrey -- .
Reviews for Trauma-Tragedy: Symptoms of contemporary performance
His [Duggan] monograph is inspiring, incisive and illustrative of the multiplicities of modes and forms that theatrical and performative engagements with trauma may assume. Last but not least, given that the topic is difficult and even painful to confront with directly, Duggan's book is enjoyable and achieves a certain balance in this troubled territory., Pavel Drabek, Routledge, Research in Drama ... Read more