Magnifying Glass
Search Loader

Elisabeth Angel-Perez & Alexandra Poulain 
Hunger on the Stage 

Support
Adobe DRM
Cover of Elisabeth Angel-Perez & Alexandra Poulain: Hunger on the Stage (PDF)
In his short story "The Hunger Artist, " Kafka imagined the theatrical career of a "professional faster" whose performance consists merely in displaying his own starving body before an avid audience. Kafka thus paradoxically suggested that hunger, mere emptiness working its way through declining bodies, may be a privileged theatrical object. Hunger often signals an anchorage in socio-historical reality, and invites extreme situations on stage, articulating large-scale cataclysms (famines, the devastation of war) with personal tragedies (hunger-strikes, anorexia, etc.) in which characters experience the tenuousness of their own lives. Whether in the comic or in the tragic mode, staged hunger metaphorizes various kinds of starvation – material greed, spiritual, emotional, sexual starvation, and even linguistic insufficiency. This volume explores the aesthetic and ethical issues raised by hunger on the stage in the English-speaking world. It investigates the paradox of the hypervisibility of the thinning body and shows how, throughout history, hunger has given shape to innovative, powerfully transgressive dramaturgies.
€63.28
payment methods
Format PDF ● Pages 300 ● ISBN 9781443814966 ● Editor Elisabeth Angel-Perez & Alexandra Poulain ● Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing ● Published 2009 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2609763 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
Requires a DRM capable ebook reader

More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor

20,931 Ebooks in this category