Patrick Duggan

Trauma-Tragedy

Symptoms of contemporary performance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 291g
• ISBN-13: 9780719099885
• ISBN-10: 0719099889
• Artikelnr.: 42798916

Autorenporträt

Patrick Duggan is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of Surrey

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Trauma's performative genealogy 2. Trauma-tragedy: a
structure of feeling 3. Mimetic shimmering and the performative punctum 4.
Performance 'texts' as sites of witness 5. Being there: the 'presence' of
trauma 6. Another view Conclusion: Trauma-tragedy and the contemporary
moment Index